One of the things I think our sector suffers from is the belief that it is inherently different from all other sectors. But from my point of view, all sectors need to adopt technologies that allow and facilitate growth. In a commercial world, businesses are driven by profit and the need to deliver returns for…
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Mears’ online procurement with Mercato KnowledgeBus
Mears Group is using an online procurement tool from Mercato to make it easier and faster to buy new technologies with greater cost transparency and better certainty of the final prices. Mears Group has grown rapidly through acquisitions, and every time a new company is brought into the group, the IT team needs to react…
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2017’s top IT security considerations
IT security isn’t news, it’s business critical. Protecting your IT system and the data within it is essential. For any organisation operating in today’s digital landscape, IT security is a very real concern. With stories of high-profile hacks, breaches and data leaks continually making headlines, it’s tempting to think that it’s just the major players…
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Appura’s view of the cloud
Elon Musk on a housing estate. That’s not a place you expect to find the billionaire owner of PayPal, Tesla and Space X, to name just a few of his pastimes. However, this is no ordinary housing estate. It’s a presentation set constructed for the purpose of launching his latest world-changing product called Tesla Solar…
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Muir goes live with Civica Housing Cx
Muir Group Housing Association has implemented Civica’s web-based Housing Cx software to digitise its services and improve communications with tenants. Ian Whitwell, assistant director of ICT, Muir Group Housing Association, said, “With more than 72,000 calls to our customer service team every year, we need to ensure a fast and efficient response and also to…
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Southern IT Forum meetings
The Southern IT Forum met in November 2016 at GreenSquare Group’s offices in Swindon. The meeting covered Microsoft’s enterprise licensing, IT budgets, mobile phone contracts and cloud-based monitoring, alongside a presentation from GreenSquare’s IT infrastructure team on their implementation of Microsoft’s StorSimple. The next meeting will be on 8th February at Paragon Community Housing’s offices…
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