SDS, the Surrey-based housing IT specialist, celebrated its 20th birthday at the National Housing Federation’s recent conference in Warwick with bunny ears, pink boas and fun photo booth that had the NHF’s delegates diving into the dressing up box after the conference dinner.
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Now SDS is 20
SDS, a leading software provider in social housing, is celebrating 20 years in business. The Surrey-based company provides real-time software to help housing providers with development appraisals, project workflows, and cash flow management. The company was started by David Shelton in 1994 and now has 14 employees and an annual turnover of around £1 million….
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ERP or not ERP?
It was interesting to note during the panel discussion at the Housing Technology 2014 conference in February that the panel was divided on the question of using ‘standard’ ERP systems, such as from SAP or Oracle, instead of standalone applications for repairs, housing, finance, CRM and so on. One perspective was that the difficulties of…
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Questioning the value of value for money
From Alistair MacLeod, Director, Waterstons. Sir – While value for money has always been important for social landlords, recent noises from the regulator suggest the effectiveness of consistently achieving it is under scrutiny, as doubts have been raised over the actual value received from procurement contracts. In my experience, a common problem for any organisation,…
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HCA’s £4bn housing programme with Landmark
Landmark Information Group has been awarded a contract by the Homes and Communities Agency to provide property intelligence data to support the development of its £4bn capital investment programme for affordable housing across England. Via Landmark Analytics (formerly Calnea Analytics), the HCA will have access to a wide range of housing market intelligence, including House…
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Landmark launches social housing heat maps
Landmark Analytics has extended its property market data to provide social housing density analysis for urban or property studies. The ‘heat maps’ add an extra layer of data into the concentration of social housing, as well as information on average prices, crime rates and ‘cost per sqm’ data. Drawn from various data sources, the heat…
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