Prior to coronavirus, many housing providers were already rethinking their communications and telephony services to increase efficiency, promote ‘cloud first’, offer flexible working arrangements, save costs, and reduce complexity. The question that I constantly heard was, “Why do we need these large office-based telephony systems that cost a fortune to manage and maintain?” Unified communications…
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079 - January 2021
Low-code – Reaching that extra 20 per cent
A recent survey from Gartner suggests that by 2024 low-code software development will be responsible for over 65 per cent of application activity across all sectors. Low-code is a visual approach to developing software, which aims to automate every step of the application lifecycle, enabling the rapid delivery of a variety of solutions. Our developers…
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Fire safety technology – Coming to a server near you…
This issue of Housing Technology has several articles and interviews on how technology is being used to improve fire safety. While fire safety and its associated technologies have historically been more of an area for housing providers’ facilities managers than their IT staff, Housing Technology expects that IT departments will soon be more involved in…
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Aareon’s Arthur launches live bank feed for housing
Hot on the heels of its recent acquisition by Aareon, Arthur has launched a fully-integrated live bank feed to make it easier for housing providers to streamline payments and accounting across their entire housing portfolios. Arthur has also gained its FCA Licence which means tenants and property managers are authorised to safely make payments through…
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Finance’s role in housing IT
Manningham Housing is a small and dynamic housing provider and we like to think that we punch above our weight – from an IT perspective, we want to be in the vanguard of embracing technologies not often used in the housing sector. Much of my focus during 2020 was negotiating a new financial facility for…
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New public-sector APIs from Ordnance survey
As part of the Geospatial Commission’s Public Sector Geospatial Agreement, over 5,500 public sector organisations now have direct and immediate access to Ordnance Survey’s most detailed and trusted location data via a suite of APIs which will transform how geospatial data is used to support government policy and underpin public services. Free at the point…
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