For the 11th consecutive year, Orchard has won the ‘OpenAccounts Best Business Partner of the Year’ award from Advanced, the result of a long, successful relationship between the two companies. Orchard said that it had continually striven to enhance the OpenAccounts solution through working parties, user groups and discussions, and feeding back recommendations from those…
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Finance Management
Midland Heart streamlines procurement with Probrand
Midland Heart has streamlined its IT procurement processes using the Probrand Marketplace buying platform. Rob Cross, technical service team leader, Midland Heart, said, “Procuring IT products and services can eat up a lot of time; without preferred suppliers, we would have to go out to three different suppliers. And we needed a more efficient solution…
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Cairn Housing’s PIMSS asset management
Cairn Housing Association has implemented PIMSS Data Systems’ asset management software to manage its portfolio of properties across Scotland. The housing provider now has a single view of its housing stock from a central database which offers the ability to manage risk, compliance and auditing. Cairn’s team can now work seamlessly between the organisation’s asset…
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Social & financial scores for your housing portfolio
We are increasingly asked by housing providers to help them gain a holistic view of their property portfolios. They need social and sustainability metrics alongside the financial NPV scores to achieve the objective of reporting both financial and social returns across their business and as the saying goes, “what gets measured, gets done”. Having a…
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Successful e-procurement in housing
In this interview, Anchor Group’s head of procurement, Iain Dawson, and Science Warehouse’s business development manager, Richard Porter discuss their joint implementation of a new e-procurement and e-invoicing system. What were the reasons behind Anchor’s transformational change? The driving factors were to make buying easier for our staff, reduce the internal costs of our ordering…
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Clearer performance at Welwyn Hatfield Council
Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council has deployed reporting and performance management software from Clearview to give the council a more transparent and joined up approach to project and risk management and capture its strategic objectives and goals. Lucy Aston, business excellence manager, Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council, said, “The new Clearview system will make sure our performance…
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