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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Finance Management
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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New Promaster interface
Orchard has been working with web-design specialists Komodo to refresh the user interface of its Promaster asset management software. Given the widespread use of Promaster in the housing sector, the aim of Orchard’s project was to modernise the user interface (UI) while retaining the user experience (UX). Komodo began by collating a styles art board…
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Universal credit and the power of data
There is still considerable uncertainty across the housing sector as many organisations wait to see what the impact of the full roll-out of universal credit will be for their organisation. Therefore, we wanted to speak to organisations all over the country to find out what they thought the impact would be and how they are…
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Weaver Vale’s collaborative planning with Orchard
Weaver Vale Housing Trust has extended its use of Orchard’s software with the implementation of the company’s new Collaborative Planning module in order to automate its budget planning. Weaver Vale’s budget process was previously managed using a series of Excel spreadsheets which had to be completed and collated in order to move the budget process…
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