The internet of things offers significant opportunities for improving the lives of those in social housing and for service provision. The University of Bristol, Royal Borough of Greenwich, Believe Housing, Bromford Labs, Homelync and Bristol City Council’s City Innovation Team are conducting research to ensure our work is ethically sound and leads to beneficial outcomes…
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075 - May 2020
Onward Homes kicks off with Aareon 1st Touch Mobile
Onward Homes is now operational with the first part of its implementation of Aareon 1st Touch Mobile and Digital CRM, having previously chosen Aareon as its preferred supplier of digital solutions. Over 300 end-users at Onward Homes are now already using the Aareon software, with overwhelmingly positive feedback.
Keeping 100 per cent of the workforce operational
Source: Castleton Technology Housing organisations are faced with some difficult decisions regarding their staffing. Never has there been more pressure to provide vital support and services to tenants, but in other areas where staff can’t be redeployed, staff are being faced with furlough and even redundancies. Castleton Technology has put its own measures in place…
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Accelerating remote working in exceptional circumstances
In late February 2020, things began to change very quickly for us due to the onset of coronavirus. CHP already had plans to implement remote working for some of its customer-facing teams, but not for at least six months – that all changed in the space of a week! After appraising the situation, we sought…
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Metropolitan Thames Valley’s Semarchy data management
Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing is now using Semarchy’s xDM platform for intelligent master data management to offer better services to its tenants and meet government regulations. MTVH used a proof-of-concept for the first phase of its Semarchy implementation. The PoC addressed the housing provider’s need to have a definitive view of its contractual obligations in…
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Community Response – A positive legacy of coronavirus
How the concept of ‘neighbours helping neighbours’, underpinned by scalable technology, has helped over 5,000 vulnerable residents… In the middle of March this year, I received a call from a prominent local politician, asking if I could spare a few hours to attend a meeting. He wanted me to advise on how the local community…
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