It’s easy to find companies and people to wax lyrical about the benefits of cloud computing, but it’s not often that anyone highlights the disadvantages. It’s true that cloud has become an industry and ecosystem in its own right and has demonstrated its value time and again in user situations, so much so that industry…
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052 - July 2016
Orbit and CommunityUK.net extend free wi-fi
Orbit Living and CommunityUK.net are extending their free wi-fi service to more of the housing provider’s sheltered housing schemes, marking the transition from a two-year pilot project to a sustainable and core infrastructure service. From February 2014 to March 2016, Orbit partnered with CommunityUK.net to deliver open wi-fi services in shared areas of over 25…
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Cracking down on rogue landlords
In recent editions, Housing Technology has highlighted how the Housing and Planning Bill has major repercussions for how the social housing sector deals with its rogue landlords. What concerns me is the numbers; 16 per cent of privately rented homes are unsafe*. That’s around 740,000 people in the UK living in properties which may have…
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Cardinus releases Indigo risk management software
Cardinus Risk Management has just released its new Indigo property risk management system for housing managers. Indigo supports housing managers by providing them with an online, secure scheduling and management platform. Cardinus said that the new, streamlined software will make it easier for housing managers to schedule surveys, notify surveyors and analyse housing portfolios. Indigo…
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BPHA care & support from Octavia
BPHA went live in May 2016 with a new care and support system from Octavia Software Solutions, including on- and offline digital forms. As part of a wider exercise to implement a new housing management system from Orchard, BPHA chose Octavia’s Oska software because of its easy integration with Orchard and now forms part of…
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The housing provider of the future
The Hyde Group’s ICT director,Tim Linsdell, and Northgate Public Services’ director for housing solutions, Trevor Hampton, discuss the future of IT in the housing sector. How will the current pressures on social housing impact housing providers over the next ten years? Trevor Hampton, director for housing solutions, Northgate Public Services, said, “There’s a clear trend…
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