Investing in a digital future means that housing providers can streamline costs, improve operational efficiency and concentrate on creating improved tenant experiences. But there is often an elephant in the room when discussing digitisation – cyber security, which comes with any data-driven, digital approach. Stopping data security spills Last year saw the personal information of…
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Southside Housing chooses Orchard for ERP
Southside Housing has chosen Orchard as the ERP partner for its digital transformation programme, with the deployment of Orchard’s housing, asset and finance software packages. Southside Housing’s digital strategy is intended to be underpinned by a suite of technology that’s customer accessible, produces dynamic information, supports efficiency and creates mobile flexibility. Chris Milborrow, business improvement…
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Digital transformation at a fraction of the normal cost?
Most housing providers are underway with digital transformation projects in one shape or another and right across society our reliance on technology keeps increasing. So how do organisations keep up? Board directors might think that digital change is expensive to implement, but what they should really worry about is the cost of getting it wrong….
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Business intelligence with Excel and Power BI
Power Pivot in Excel and Power BI are amazing tools that can deliver substantial efficiency savings and provide an awesome level of analysis and insight; working with data has never been easier. Our story Five years ago we realised, like most housing organisations, that we had lots of data in a variety of different databases…
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Stock Right Now at Great Places Housing
Great Places Housing is using Stock Right Now software to manage the imprest van stock of its mobile operatives. The housing provider originally asked Stock Right Now to perform an audit on its then poorly performing repairs service. Materials supply was highlighted as the key driver for positive change because it was taking multiple visits…
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iOpt expands senior team
iOpt has strengthened its senior team with the appointment of Stewart Carruth as its operations director and Jack Slater as the company’s head of technology. iOpt’s former summer intern Lewis Forster has also joined the company as a data scientist following his graduation from Glasgow University with a degree in maths and statistics. Stewart Carruth,…
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