Capita’s software services business has been awarded the ‘connected/mobility solution of the year’ title at the European IT & Software Excellence 2017 awards for how it has helped Liverpool YMCA to tackle homelessness and access to support services in the city. Based on Capita’s Advantage Impact solutions, Liverpool YMCA’s ‘MainStay’ project was developed with the…
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Topological data analysis
Computers are reasonably good at analysing large datasets, but there is one class of problem where they require a bit of help from puny humans – high dimensional datasets. By ‘high-dimensional’, we mean ‘wide’, as in lots of columns. When we have wide data, it’s very hard to spot commonalities across a number of those…
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Boardroom perspectives – Moat
Housing Technology interviewed Moat’s chief executive, Elizabeth Austerberry, about IT, building developments, mergers, and the housing provider’s plans for the future. What were your previous experiences of housing associations before Moat? My background is in finance and consultancy so I have a lot of experience of working with all types of property companies and also…
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Integrator Housing Solutions – 30 years of housing asset management
Housing Technology interviewed Integrator Housing Solutions’ managing director, Vic Harrison, about the company’s 30-year pedigree of providing housing asset management software and his views on the future of IT in social housing. What is the background to Integrator Housing Solutions? Integrator’s asset management software originated from a request by Orbit Housing to develop a system…
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Switchee in the Future 50
Switchee, a provider of smart thermostats for social housing, has been included in Real Business’ Future 50, an annual list of the UK’s 50 most disruptive and innovative companies. Switchee is the only social housing-related start-up in this year’s Future 50. Since its inception in 2015, Switchee has been working with a number of local…
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Data – From connections to projections
Data: it’s the stuff of IT. We hear about it all the time. Databases, datasticks, data lakes, data quality, data mining, data analytics. Just as with IT and iPads, so the consumerisation of data has led to everyone having an apparently expert opinion on what it is, what it’s for, what’s wrong with it and…
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