Hastoe Housing is now using software from Enghouse Interactive for its contact centre’s operations. Amanda Harris, head of customer services, Hastoe Housing, said, “We offer a wide range of services to our local communities, and these are managed through a small contact centre of just eight advisors and a portal for online self-service. But our…
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Salix Homes pioneers AI telecare
Salix Homes is working with Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, The University of Manchester and The University of Salford on a ground-breaking artificial intelligence (AI) research project. MiiHome uses sensors such as Microsoft Kinect technology (most commonly associated with the Xbox) fitted into people’s homes, with the aim of helping elderly people who are frail…
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Embracing the digital switchover
By 2025, analogue telephony services will be switched off completely in the UK. While this may sound alarm bells for housing providers who offer telecare systems (such as pendant alarms and pull cords) to their older residents, we believe it represents an opportunity rather than a threat. While we see this date as a deadline…
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Alcove pioneers ‘Alexa skills’ in housing
Assistive technology company Alcove, who has been helping older and disabled adults in housing schemes across the UK remain safe for the last three years using its IoT-based digital care ecosystem, has reported that it is the only company of its kind in the UK to have built a care ‘skill’ on Amazon’s Alexa devices…
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GCI implements Skype contact centre for Shelter
GCI has won a Skype for Business contract with Shelter. The housing and homelessness charity will use the latest cloud technology to run a more flexible contact centre to help the 60,000 people that call every year for help with their housing needs. Stuart Moore from Shelter said, “Staffed by just 30 housing advisers, we…
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Accent delivers omni-channel contacts with MIS AMS
Accent Group has gone live with MIS AMS’s ActiveH CRM system in its omni-channel ‘Accent Connect’ contact centre. Accent Connect, based on Contact Expert software linked to ActiveH, is already resulting in measurable benefits for staff and the housing provider’s 37,000 tenants through a single 360-degree view of Accent’s properties and tenants. Danielle Mould, call…
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