Housing providers have a difficult juggling act when it comes to their responsibilities. Their first priority must always be to their tenants and residents. That means ensuring property, whether it’s an individual’s home or a communal area, is safe, secure and well maintained. But housing providers also have a duty to ensure they deliver on…
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Housing Solutions converges telco and DI contracts through Social Telecoms
Housing Solutions has consolidated its fixed line telephony, mobile phone and lone-worker protection under a single contract with Social Telecoms, replacing a number of different suppliers, each with varying contract end-dates, while also generating cost savings. Using an EU-compliant tendering process, Housing Solutions began by negotiating the terms of its fixed-line telecommunications contract by inviting…
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Trent & Dove goes 95% virtual with EMC
Trent & Dove Housing Association has installed EMC Vspex in order to virtualise 95 per cent of its entire IT infrastructure, and saving 20 per cent from its electricity bills in the process. It took just six weeks for EMC to deploy 20 servers, with the final result achieving 95 per cent of its entire…
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Futures Housing selects Amillan for unified communications
Futures Housing Group has selected Amillan to deliver an integrated unified communications and contact centre solution as part of its plan to better engage with tenants. The chosen solution of Microsoft Skype for Business and Enghouse EICC contact centre software is expected to deliver communication and productivity improvements throughout the organisation via voice, email, IM,…
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Calibre Secured Networks’ wi-fi for Eastlands Homes
Manchester’s Eastlands Homes has invested in new wi-fi and related IT services from Calibre Secured Networks to improve services to its tenants living in thousands of properties across the north-west of England. Iain Nelson, ICT officer, Eastlands Homes, said, “Our investment with Calibre will put fast and efficient digital services at the heart of our…
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You’re hired – SDS takes on apprentices
SDS is celebrating the success of its four apprentices after two years. SDS is a great supporter of the apprentices programme as well as finding it the ideal way to lower the average age of the office. Thomas Hill is now fully employed as a junior developer, coding and testing software. He said, “Working in…
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