Orchard is set to implement a new finance management and procurement system for Bolton at Home, with the objective of delivering business change and efficiencies across the organisation. Based on OpenAccounts, Orchard Financials combines an award-wining finance system with Orchard’s housing-sector expertise and knowledge. Orchard reported that Orchard Financials is a fully integrated finance solution…
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055 - January 2017
#HTtop5
Welcome to #HTtop5. A quick yet strangely satisfying portion of technology news, served hot with a sweet creativity dip and a side order of housing sector potential. A bit like the chicken strips in McDonald’s… but with more housing. Kwikset’s smartlock You may have heard of smartlocks already. They don’t use regular physical keys but…
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Cloud services vs. on-premise IT
With cloud-based services now being widely used among UK social housing providers alongside or even supplanting traditional on-premise IT services, Housing Technology asked senior executives from Civica, IT Lab, Kykloud and Riverlite for their views on the merits of these two technology models. Advantages and disadvantages of on-premise IT Civica’s executive director of outsourcing, Gary…
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Interview – Sovereign Business Integration on cost reductions and security
Housing Technology interviewed Joanna Sedley-Burke, the managing director of Sovereign Business Integration Group, about the company’s focus on cost reductions and security for its social housing customers and its introduction of new ‘as a service’ options. What is Sovereign’s involvement and experience in the social housing sector? Sovereign is an independent technology company providing a…
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Data Futurists’ 360-degree view of property interests
New software to manage the ownership and asset information of housing providers’ property portfolios has been launched by Data Futurists in a project involving Family Mosaic’s 25,000 homes. The new company has developed data management software to process one million pieces of data, ensuring that complicated ownership details relating to leasehold and freehold titles are…
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Places for People deploys SDS ProVal
SDS is celebrating over 20 years of its ProVal software with a major order from Places for People. The deal involves 180 licences for ProVal, SDS’s viability software, and Sequel, its project monitoring tool, following a review of the housing provider’s existing system. The deal is the largest in SDS’s 22-year history and follows Places…
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