Rockingham Forest Housing has completed the implementation of a business intelligence solution from Qlikview to run over its OmniLedger housing management system in order to deliver more timely and accurate performance reports. The implementation was carried out by Castle Computer Services. The housing provider reported that, before the introduction of the Qlikview system, it was…
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045 - May 2015
Why agile is the answer for Circle Housing
In an era of change, housing providers must evolve to keep pace with developments in the housing sector, in an environment of increased financial pressures created by a lack of reliable funding, continuing welfare policy changes and to help meet the ever-growing need for housing. We must also respond to the demands of our tenants…
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1st Touch 360 streamlines housing operations
1st Touch has added ‘1st Touch 360’ to its range of enterprise mobile workforce software. The dashboard-based solution is intended to streamline housing processes by delivering a single, 360-degree view of all key metrics and tenant data access points. Using 1st Touch 360, all the information needed to conduct any tenant visit is collated in…
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Southern Housing’s CIO named in CIO Top 100
Kevin Connell, Southern Housing Group’s IT director, has been named in the 2015 ‘CIO Top 100’ announced by CIO UK magazine in April. The CIO Top 100 list recognises the most transformative CIOs in the UK, demonstrating how they are initiating and leading technology-enabled business transformation within their organisations. Connell is leading Southern Housing’s IT…
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Thirteen Group selects Orchard for iPaCs
Orchard has won a large project from the Thirteen Group, the north-east of England’s largest housing group, to deliver an integrated property and customer system (iPaCs) to support the group’s drive towards improving efficiency and managing costs. The Thirteen Group was formed following a merger of Fabrick Housing Group and the Vela Group in April…
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Enterprise tools for smaller HAs from SASSHA
SASSHA has reported that although smaller housing providers may not have the IT budgets or the training to get to grips with some of the more complicated housing software, they still need the same operational capabilities as the larger housing providers, but simply on a smaller scale. To address this, SASSHA has spent three years…
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