Is it right that we are still discussing women in IT as a standalone topic in 2020? The dawn of a new decade demands a hard look at why this subject continues to require special attention. According to the training and job website Women in Tech, “Only one in six tech specialists in the UK…
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What3words for Safepoint
Safepoint has partnered with What3Words to add the company’s brilliantly simple way to denote locations to its lone-worker app. What3words has divided up the world into a grid of 3m squares that can each be identified by three simple words. For example, Housing Technology’s headquarters is ///decent.salad.faster, while Safepoint’s offices can be found at ///calm.gives.comet….
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Orchard buys InterNETalia for repairs and maintenance
Orchard has bought InterNETalia and its well-known AccuServ software to strengthen its end-to-end repairs and maintenance solutions for housing providers and contractors. The two companies described Orchard AccuServ Repairs & Maintenance as a single solution for recording, scheduling and managing repairs, emergency and planned work, voids and compliance jobs. It makes job and sub-contractor management…
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Unboxed unwraps faster housing repairs for Hackney Council
Hackney Council has streamlined the reporting and fixing of its 15,000 annual housing-related leaks by 35 per cent through a new microservices architecture and revamped user interface from Unboxed. The housing repairs service at Hackney Council had built up an infrastructure of legacy software platforms, including Civica’s Universal Housing, Servitor and Kirona’s DRS, all resulting…
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JRF moves to Azure with Phoenix
Joseph Rowntree Foundation has moved its IT infrastructure to Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform with support from Phoenix. After Phoenix’s ‘Surveyor 360’ assessment to identify the right mixture of on-premise, hybrid and cloud services to replace JRF’s ageing infrastructure, Phoenix was chosen as JRF’s migration partner for its move to Microsoft Azure. Andy Veale, director for…
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How to tell a great story
Many of the articles in this magazine are about exciting exhilarating, rewarding and even fun developments with new technologies. This usually involves a change for the business and its people and, as we all know, changing a business can be messy and difficult. Our ‘Battenburg cake’ approach to change puts the people elements at the…
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