Specialist customer service solutions provider Omfax Systems, has secured its first housing customer in mainland Europe. Glostrup Boligselskab, a Danish housing provider in Copenhagen, has bought Omfax’s Keyfax Interview Online, a web-based repairs reporting tool that enables tenants to report repairs around the clock. The system enables repairs to be diagnosed easier and faster by…
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Customer Management
Home Group saves £220k with TSG
A new knowledge management tool developed by IT specialists Technology Services Group (TSG) has saved Home Group £220,000 in its first year of operation and reduced the training time for new call-centre staff by almost 70 per cent, from one month to just 10 days. Home Group receives over 24,000 repair calls every month. Inefficiencies…
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Hyde goes gigabit with Hyperoptic
Hyde Group is soon to offer its tenants access to the fastest broadband service in the UK from Hyperoptic. Enabled by fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) provider Hyperoptic, the project will be piloted from September 2016 across six of Hyde’s existing developments in south London and two of its new-build sites in Southwark and Harrow. Hyperoptic said that…
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Housing providers need to integrate digital
According to a new survey by Omfax, while more than half of housing providers’ contact centres now routinely manage social media and just under half have a tenant portal, a significant proportion of providers have yet to integrate digital alongside their existing phone and face-to-face contact channels. Omfax’s Graddon said, “Some housing providers are already…
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Orbit launches digital tenancy sign-ups
Orbit Group has created ‘Orbit Move’ in partnership with Prodo Digital to provide a faster and easier way to complete the sign-up process for new tenancies. A responsive website and mobile app help Orbit staff and their prospective tenants complete the process in five simple steps. Unlike other digital sign-up platforms in the housing sector,…
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Salix Homes brings free wi-fi to ‘silver surfers’
Salix Homes has teamed up with Salford Council to have free wi-fi installed at its eight sheltered housing complexes for the elderly across the city. The initiative comes after Salford was awarded £2 million from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to install free wi-fi access points in public buildings including libraries and community…
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