Housing Technology interviewed IT experts from 1st Touch, Civica Housing, Kykloud and Zonr on the latest asset management software and associated strategies for housing providers. Most housing providers tend to have a separate asset management system to monitor and manage their property and associated asset portfolios, even if in many instances it only consists of…
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Asset Management
Smarter asset management – The time for talking is over
What is smarter asset management and what does it mean for housing providers? The world is now a very different place for social housing. Recent events such as welfare reform and rent reductions mean that housing providers are under increasing pressure to radically remodel service delivery in order to reduce operational costs. In order to…
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Cardiff Community Housing uses RAM for SORP compliance
Real Asset Management has been helping Cardiff Community Housing Association with its compliance with continually-evolving SORP regulations and component accounting. When the SORP regulations initially changed in 2010, CCHA was using Open Accounts combined with Excel spreadsheets to keep track of its assets. Not only was this time-consuming, it was susceptible to human error as…
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Mobile asset management from In4systems
In4systems is launching a new mobile version of its Promaster asset management solution, developed in consultation with Longhurst Group, Magenta Living and other In4systems housing customers. The company reported that it had adopted a new approach to the design of the new mobile product, based on user-centred design (UCD) processes to gain a comprehensive view…
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Software asset management – It’s time for change
The cornerstone of any software asset management (SAM) programme is good quality and up-to-date data from both inventory and procurement perspectives; this forms the basis of your effective licence position (ELP), a key milestone in any SAM programme. However, the problem is that getting to this point can be extremely time-consuming and those responsible can…
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Are housing providers losing their appetite to develop?
Sir – At the time of writing (early August 2014), the Homes and Communities Agency had just allocated more than half of its £1.7 billion grant funding for the 2015-2018 affordable homes programme and it’s clear that some of the biggest landlords are shrinking their bids by between a half and two-thirds of their previous…
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