Progress Housing Group is using Tall Group’s CheckPrint software to replace the continuous stationery-based cheques and normal cheques used to pay suppliers and issue refunds to tenants for over-payments. Progress Housing issues cheques on behalf of several subsidiaries across multiple bank accounts, and often needs to match cheques with separate letters before mailing. As well…
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Finance Management
Money in, money out
As we mention in our feature article and focus on technology for risk management (pages 24-28), performance management and risk management can be considered as two sides of the same coin. While performance management software enables housing providers to fine-tune and quantify their operations for greater productivity and efficiency, risk management software gives them the…
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ERP or not ERP?
It was interesting to note during the panel discussion at the Housing Technology 2014 conference in February that the panel was divided on the question of using ‘standard’ ERP systems, such as from SAP or Oracle, instead of standalone applications for repairs, housing, finance, CRM and so on. One perspective was that the difficulties of…
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More choice, more decisions
From Jacqui Stoggall, Director of Consultancy, Sovereign Business Information Group. Sir – The ICT market in housing shows no sign of slowing as business transformation programmes fuel the procurement of new software, driven not only by service delivery objectives but also by the need to help the business deliver ever-increasing levels of efficiency and effectiveness….
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Is universal credit changing the housing technology landscape?
From Mark Summers, head of technology sales for JMC IT. Universal credit remains in its relative infancy, moving from a pilot phase to a staged UK-wide rollout in April 2014. Yet it is already clear that welfare reform is changing the country’s social housing landscape for good and, according to some, not necessarily for the…
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No more spreadsheets at CDS with Infor
CDS Co-Operatives has bought Infor’s SunSystems application to replace spreadsheet-based reporting, improve customer service and accelerate payments through electronic invoicing processes. The new system will remove a mass of manual, error-prone data-entry processes, freeing up staff to focus on value-adding activities such as business analysis. Paper-based invoicing processes will also be replaced. CDS chose Infor…
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