Riverside is piloting a new service that will help tenants save money by controlling their central-heating boilers remotely. Tenants will be able to send a message from their smartphone to switch the boiler on or off and adjust their heating temperature from outside the home. The device also provides humidity readings to encourage families to…
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Customer Management
OpinionWise launches tenant dialogue portal
OpinionWise has developed its new OurHousing online service to help housing providers and tenants share their experiences with the aim of improving services. Anybody with an experience of a housing provider’s property can tell their story online and engage in dialogue with others around it. Housing providers can also reply and benefit from new insights,…
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One year on – Netcall completes integration with Serengeti Systems
A year on from its acquisition of Serengeti Systems, Netcall has completed the integration of the Serengeti expertise with Netcall’s enterprise content management capabilities to address the company’s wider proposition of seamless end-to-end customer engagement. Netcall has also just launched a number of new modules for the housing sector, including modules for anti-social behaviour (ASB),…
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Together Housing consolidates service centres with mplsystems
Together Housing Group has deployed a next-generation contact centre system from mplsystems. The new intelligentDesktop is intended to optimise the performance of the Together Housing customer services team that manages around 35,000 homes across its five contact centres. Together Housing handles customer service calls for ten different social housing brands. By using intelligentDesktop, the group’s…
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Omni-channel or omni-shambles?
Housing providers are increasing talking about adopting a multi-channel communications strategy, but how should it be done, what are the benefits to tenants and housing providers, and are the IT suppliers ready with the right solutions? Housing Technology interviewed a panel of multi-channel experts to find out their views. Most housing providers already have multiple…
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Online learning partnership from Bernicia, Liquid Voice & Housing e-Academy
Bernicia Group, Liquid Voice and Housing e-Academy have teamed up to create an online training course to complement housing providers’ existing call-centre solutions, with the aim of communicating the importance of customer excellence. Having already worked with Bernicia since 2007, Liquid Voice invited Housing e-Academy, as e-learning experts in social housing, to jointly create the…
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