Adur and Worthing Councils are two district councils near Brighton which have had a shared officer structure since 2008. Over the past few years, we have begun to use our own low-code platform to develop our own systems. This approach has been recognised as being innovative; we won a SOCITM award for innovation in 2015…
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River Clyde Homes saves £55k with MIS-AMS
River Clyde Homes has completed an extensive upgrade programme of its rent arrears and data-capture functions using MIS AMS’s ActiveH software, resulting in savings of £55,000. Lorna Williams, business performance and systems manager, River Clyde Homes, said, “After reviewing our current system, we realised that there was quite a bit of work to do make…
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Manifest enables Greenfields’ digital tenancy sign-ups
In 2017, the business solutions team at Greenfields Community Housing began a project to enable more agile working practices, particularly those relating to tenancy management; for example, a review had identified that over 20 paper documents were created, duplicated and manually filed for each tenancy. The main objective of Greenfield’s project was therefore to fully…
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Extending Microsoft Dynamics – Going Mobile
In the March issue of Housing Technology, I wrote about how Microsoft Dynamics can be extended to tenant self-service portals; in this article I will discuss how Microsoft Dynamics can be extended to mobile devices. There is an increasing emphasis in the housing sector on flexible working, whether this is because there are more face-to-face…
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Housing mergers and acquisitions – where does IT fit in?
Housing Technology interviewed senior housing experts from Clearview Systems, Itica, Northgate Public Services, Torus Group and Vantage Business Solutions on the role and impact of technology on housing providers’ mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Existing technologies as M&A drivers Although technology is now widely recognised as being fundamental to housing providers’ operations, for any two or…
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Cloud – Better, faster and cheaper?
Cloud technology and adoption is growing rapidly, with many experts predicting that 50 per cent of the UK enterprise software market will be delivered via a cloud-hosted, software-as-a-service (SaaS) model within two years, double today’s figure. With cloud underpinning deeper business intelligence, improved service outcomes and being more secure and greener than before, now is…
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