Watford Community Housing Trust is using BoardPacks software on iPads to make its board papers easier to use and reduce the administrative burden and cost of preparing them. Julie Robinson, director of resources, Watford Community Housing Trust, said, “BoardPacks is simple to use, and board members that were already familiar with Apple products found it…
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First Wessex chooses ProjectVault for collaborative file sharing
Document management and digital specialist Service Point has won a two and a half year contract with First Wessex Homes to provide it with access to ProjectVault, Service Point’s proprietary online document management system. ProjectVault will enable First Wessex to create a single point of contact for multiple partners working on a project, with the…
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Coactiva hires dedicated housing expert
Public-sector IT company Coactiva has created its first dedicated role for the social housing sector with the appointment of Kevin Gilhooly as its senior business development manager for the sector. Gilhooly’s appointment is accompanied by six other new recruits, each addressing different public-sector areas. Before joining Coactiva, Gilhooly spent a decade at Housing Partners where,…
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Cutting-edge infrastructure at FCHO
First Choice Homes Oldham’s head of ICT, Stephen Repton, reports on how the housing provider embarked on a procurement exercise beginning in 2013 to replace its entire ICT infrastructure (including telephony) and re-procure infrastructure support provision to support key business transformation activities. Board approval and significant investment resulted in an eight-month project from June 2014…
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North Lanarkshire mobilises £280,000 of savings with Northgate
Northgate Public Services has help North Lanarkshire Council introduce mobile working using smartphones and a cloud-based infrastructure to improve its tenant services. The housing provider reported that it has already saved £280,000 per year by using the Northgate service. North Lanarkshire Council and Northgate jointly developed a web-based service for both staff and tenants, leading…
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Cloud-based CCTV supplement from Cloudview and Housing Technology
For the first of Housing Technology’s new series of ‘In-Depth 2015’ supplements, we have teamed up with Cloudview to look at how housing providers can use the latest cloud-based technologies to reduce the cost, effort and time of using their new or existing CCTV infrastructures to track anti-social behaviour and crime, as well as extend…
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