Real Asset Management has launched a smartphone app so that housing providers can conduct physical audits and update their asset registers using mobile devices. The app is available now on iOS, with Android and Windows Mobile versions coming soon. Working with RAM’s existing Series4000 software, the app will help users improve the accuracy of their…
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Asset Management
ISO-55000 – Taking asset management into the boardroom
Karen Conneely, Group Commercial Manager, Real Asset Management, outlines the way ISO-55000 is set to change corporate attitudes to asset maintenance and explains the fundamental importance of a good computerised maintenance management system (CMMS) in delivering critical asset information and enabling process change. Maintenance managers know that proactive asset management can cut costs and improve…
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Interview with SDS – IT, funding and politics in housing
After five years as CEO of Shelton Development Services, Housing Technology interviewed Phil Shelton about IT, funding and political changes in social housing. How has IT affected the housing sector since 2009 when you took over at Shelton Development Services? The technology has advanced considerably since 2009, when the iPhone 3 had only been out…
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Capita offers asset management alongside HMS suite
Capita has launched a new asset management system, OpenAsset, using a geographic information system (GIS) to enable housing providers to manage all of their properties and assets from a single point. Using map-based images, housing staff can quickly recognise which assets need maintenance and attend to those without needing to return to the office. Users…
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Harmony Homes in tune with RAM for component accounting
Harmony Homes has selected Real Asset Management to deliver an automated component accounting solution to replace its manual, spreadsheet-based process. The new Asset4000 system is expected to help the housing provider monitor its assets more efficiently, deliver considerable time savings, and meet the latest SORP and IFRS requirements for component accounting. Michael McDowell from Harmony…
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Civica buys Keystone Asset Management
Civica has just bought Keystone Asset Management Solutions for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition fills a gap in Civica’s existing technology suite around asset management, planned maintenance, inspections and component accounting. The two companies have worked together in the past on shared customers, including St Leger Homes and Thames Valley Housing. Joshua Warren, director, Keystone…
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