This edition of Housing Technology is heavier on ‘data’ than normal, in part owing to our main feature article on data integration and straight-through processing as well as numerous contributed articles from data experts in our sector. In much the same way that a philosophical construct or mathematical theorem is only as strong as its…
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080 – March 2021
West of Scotland Housing gets RentSense
West of Scotland Housing has bought Mobysoft’s RentSense software to help it mitigate the effects of the pandemic and welfare reform on its increasing arrears. Robert Campbell, director of housing and community services, West of Scotland Housing, said, “The impact of the pandemic on some of our tenants and their ability to pay their rent…
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Cloud-powered postal mailings
McKinsey Group estimates that the pandemic has accelerated the pace of digital transformation by seven years, and TechUK reported last year how it had seen two years’ digital transformation taking place within just a fortnight. Remote working, while enforced for many of us, has also been a strong catalyst for digital adoption. Cloud has been…
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Signal boost for digital skills
We Are Digital’s chief executive, Matt Adam, outlines the digital skills gap facing the UK’s employers and the digital marketing roles opening up across the job market for tenants as a result. Finding work and income-generating opportunities for tenants is an ongoing concern for housing providers. The pandemic has changed the workplace, possibly forever, and…
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FireAngel’s next-generation gateway
FireAngel has launched its New Generation Cellular Gateway enabling housing providers to offer higher levels of protective and preventative fire safety. Using FireAngel’s Smart RF technology, the New Generation Cellular Gateway wirelessly connects smoke, heat and carbon-monoxide alarms in a property to FireAngel’s Connected cloud-based platform. Housing providers can then monitor when alarms are triggered,…
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Being ‘cloud smart’ to support tenants
“The cloud – isn’t that just servers in someone else’s data centre?” A sensible question and, in reality, it’s exactly that. Instead of locating your server infrastructure in your offices, you locate it in someone else’s. Instead of your team monitoring, managing, cooling, powering and upgrading the servers, you’re paying someone else to do so,…
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