Six Scottish housing providers and local authorities have signed up for Mobysoft’s predictive analytics Rentsense software within the first three months of 2018, primarily to mitigate the effects of the introduction of full-service universal credit. Gregor Booth, operations director, Waverley Housing Association, said, “We wanted to plan for the full-service roll out of universal credit…
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Finance Management
How housing providers can save on IT costs
Technology can undoubtedly deliver cost and efficiency benefits, but insufficient management of IT means these savings can quickly be eroded. Software in particular is one area in which spending can easily spiral out of control, both in terms of procurement and managing assets. To deliver the maximum benefits for the minimum cost, IT teams in…
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PIMSS launches stock evaluation tool
PIMSS Data Systems has launched Viability, a stock assessment tool for analysing housing and associated stock performance. The cloud-hosted tool enables housing providers to evaluate stock against both financial (NPV) and strategic sustainability criteria and then examine the effects of changes to these from a property, street, postcode area, block, estate or town level. Financial…
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Livin automates asset recording with Orchard
Livin has been using Orchard’s Fixed Assets software for its property and asset portfolio alongside general ledger integration for component accounting and FRS102 compliance, saving at least £600,000 in the process. Livin was originally using spreadsheets to manage its property portfolio, but with so many spreadsheets in use, the process had become very time-consuming and…
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Inprova buys Valueworks
Valueworks, a spending control software provider, has been bought by Inprova, the managing agent for Procurement for Housing (PfH). The Valueworks software gives housing providers real-time, collaborative views across all of their spending data as an alternative to the siloed finance and asset management spreadsheets that many still rely on. PfH said that the increased…
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Asset data and the VfM standard
Homes England has a revised value for money standard that requires you to make the best returns on your assets: Does it feel like you could be going in the right direction at last? As ever, the devil is in the detail, as Mike Victory Rowe explains… The Homes England consultation to strengthen the VfM…
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