Following the launch by housing consultancy Altair of its digital and technology practice in March 2021, the company has made two strategic appointments to the practice, both through Housing Technology’s dedicated recruitment service. Phil Smith joins as Altair’s business development director and Cher Lewney as the company’s principal consultant. Smith and Lewney both previously worked…
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082 - July 2021
Transformation in a data-rich world
Throughout the pandemic, the public sector has overcome huge challenges. Despite living through the most disruptive period in a generation, our public services have been at their best and most innovative. We’ve witnessed just how important technology is in connecting local and global communities. Using digital tools to collaborate and partner across local government, suppliers,…
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Get ready for hybrid working…
Post-pandemic, the way housing teams work and engage with tenants is set to look different. Greg Burnham, Datagraphic’s Aceni Hybrid Mail product manager, discusses some of the opportunities and challenges for IT leaders with mobile technologies and remote working. Catalyst for digital transformation When we were told in March 2020 to “work from home if…
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Golden Lane Housing signs with Unit4 for ERP & analytics
In a move away from best-of-breed business applications, Golden Lane Housing is deploying enterprise resource planning (ERP) and financial planning and analytics (FP&A) software from Unit4. The new software will be implemented by Integra Associates, based on the company’s housing-specific ERP methodology. Unit4’s ERP and FP&A software includes pre-configured processes and modules for local government…
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Case study: Wiltshire Council’s Aareon 360 Customer Portal
One of the greatest challenges facing housing providers and local authorities at the moment is their need to deliver the same services to residents while being unable to offer the same level of personal interaction. Restrictions on face-to-face contact have meant that housing officers can only visit those in the greatest need, while call-centres are…
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Believe Housing and Gamma’s Exactive Cloud
With a change in office location and plans to modernise its working model, Believe Housing chose Exactive’s CloudUCX solution to deliver Microsoft Teams with telephony which allowed the housing provider to get up and running quickly and effectively. Believe Housing was planning to move office location but it had a traditional desk-based telephony system which…
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