Mobysoft has won a Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in Innovation for its cloud-based solution RentSense. Following the government’s one per cent rent cut, Mobysoft’s RentSense is helping housing providers to achieve substantial efficiencies, such as helping Asra Housing Group reduce arrears by £1.65 million over two years. Many housing providers’ IT systems for managing rent…
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051 - May 2016
GIS & mapping in housing
Housing Technology interviewed experts on geographic information systems (GIS) from Ancoris, Civica, Northern Ireland Housing Executive, Orbit Group and Orchard Information Systems about how housing providers can use GIS to improve business performance, save money and boost tenant services. Understanding GIS and mapping As a brief one-sentence summary of GIS before we cover how it…
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Thames Valley Housing tracks right-to-buy and & pay-to-stay with Clearview
Thames Valley Housing Association has been using Clearview’s business intelligence and reporting suite in order to assess the financial impact of the government’s right-to-buy and pay-to-stay policies on its operations by building a financial model. Chris Roberts, data analyst, Thames Valley Housing Association, said, “We chose to use Clearview because it is perfectly suited to…
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Midland Heart dials up Rostrvm for universal credit
Midland Heart and Rostrvm Solutions have developed a bespoke call-dialling system in order to mitigate the effects of the introduction of universal credit by improving rent collection rates and reducing arrears. Midland Heart is using the system to get in touch with tenants via voice alerts and text messages as soon as their agreed payments…
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Guardian24 protects RCT Homes’ high-risk staff
RCT Homes is using 250 Guardian24 MicroGuard devices to protect their lone working and at-risk employees. The devices enable users to raise an alarm simply by pressing the device’s central SOS button. This connects them to Guardian24’s alarm receiving centre (ARC) where two-way audio enables a trained controller to either listen in to the situation…
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Aareon HMS for One Manchester
One Manchester was launched in 2015 when Eastlands Homes and City South Manchester Housing Trust joined together. As a result, the newly-formed organisation wanted to consolidate its existing finance systems onto a single platform as well as consolidate and maintain only one housing management system by October 2016. One Manchester’s tender invitations were for the…
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