Midland Heart has replaced its previous finance system with OpenAccounts from Orchard, based on the software’s asset processing capabilities, ease of integration and overall simplicity. Martin Temple, finance operations manager, Midland Heart, said, “We needed a straightforward, easy-to-maintain system that would be simple to administer and could control costs. “During the procurement process, our team…
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Investing in new technology?
Rooftop Housing’s investment in a technologically-innovative, customer-focused IT system proved to be the perfect opportunity to review procurement best practice, before negotiations had even begun. Having been instructed to advise them on their contract with their IT supplier, we started the process by considering which key issues needed to be resolved before the contract discussions…
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How analytics can help with UC and maintain your income
It doesn’t seem so long ago that universal credit (UC) was first introduced in pilot schemes around the country but we’re now just over halfway to full implementation, according to a House of Commons blog. The progressive UC roll-out to specific groups and geographic areas means that although an increasing proportion of claimants now receive…
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Housing Partners empowers Welsh housing providers for UC
Cadwyn, Hafod and Cardiff Community housing associations have signed with Housing Partners in order to protect their combined 9,000 households from the effects of universal credit and welfare reform. Housing Partner’s Insight solution, which collates information from the landlord’s housing management system and combines it with external data gathered from hundreds of third-party sources, is…
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Getting serious about e-procurement & spending analytics
As is very frequently cited, the housing sector needs to deliver more with less, yet without impacting the quality of services to tenants. One’s thoughts therefore turn to the back office and how can you drive both bottom line and efficiency savings while still delivering a quality service. Enabling controlled and accountable buying, removing paper…
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South Staffordshire cuts arrears to one per cent with Mobysoft
In 2016/17, South Staffordshire Housing Association achieved its lowest ever arrears in spite of ongoing welfare reforms and the one per cent rent cut, after its deployment of Mobysoft’s RentSense software. Samantha Allcott, income manager, South Staffordshire Housing, said, “Rather than waste extra resources and money on working through an inaccurate caseload, we decided to…
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