John Sant, CEO of mobile working specialist Footprint Solutions, explains how housing providers can benefit from moving their processes online to drive efficiencies, cut costs and improve tenant relationships. We are all using more services online; in the same way that you can read the newspaper or organise finances on the internet, tenants increasingly expect…
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042 - November 2014
Orchard expands its presence on CCS frameworks
Orchard has expanded its presence on the Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) frameworks, offering more procurement choices for existing and potential customers. Orchard has promoted its softwareasaservice offerings via the GCloud framework since 2012 and can now offer its entire portfolio of housing solutions via the Local Authority Software Applications (LASA) RM1059 framework. The Crown Commercial…
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Orchard receives ‘Grand Prix’ Dynamo IT award
Orchard Information Systems’ executive chairman Peter Hunt won the ‘Grand Prix’ award at the Dynamo Dynamites 2014 awards event, which was attended by over 300 representatives from the North East’s IT sector. Dynamo promotes the growth of the IT sector in the North East Region. It is supported by a number of local businesses, public…
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Istay@home with Aareon: Using technology to help the ageing population
According to the EU’s 2012 ‘Ageing’ report, it is estimated that we will see Europe’s population of people over 65 increase from 17 per cent to 30 per cent. Clearly, this will present major challenges in terms of both economic, social and health-related issues for all EU countries. This issue is also on the agenda…
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V1 P2P finance solutions at Community Housing
Community Housing Group is implementing purchase-to-pay (P2P) solutions from V1 to improve spend control and procurement process efficiencies across its five subsidiaries. The project is scheduled to go live in December 2014. V1’s archive and purchasing management solutions will integrate with the group’s existing Infor SunSystems accounting software and record all financial commitments and expenditure….
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Clearview business intelligence for Cadwyn
Cadwyn Housing Association is the latest housing provider to turn to Clearview business intelligence and reporting to unlock their data to drive service improvement programmes. The Clearview implementation was completed in September 2014. Adrian Jones, IT manager, Cadwyn Housing Association, said, “We are in the early days of our implementation of Clearview, but we have…
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