Havebury Housing Partnership has reported the results of its implementation of an HR and payroll system from Cascade. The new system is saving Havebury Housing’s HR team around 30 hours per week, at the same time as giving more control and flexibility to staff and managers through self-service options and better reporting tools. Havebury Housing…
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Finance Management
Places for People ready for UC and PCI-compliant with Civica
Places for People has reported that it has completed the introduction of a PCI-compliant payment service in advance of the introduction of universal credit. The five-month project to run a hosted version of Civica’s Icon income management system was completed in August 2012. The housing provider originally implemented an on-premise version of the Civica income…
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Are you ready for universal credit?
With universal credit high on everyone’s agenda and as a continuation of the article in the September issue, Housing Technology interviewed representatives from MET, Montal Computer Services, Netcall, Online Centres Foundation, Paragon Community Housing Group and Sovereign Business Integration Group to find out their views on how welfare reform will affect housing providers. Preparing for…
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Buying ‘jam jar’ banking technology
Registered providers needn’t reinvent the wheel. There are a number of products and services already on the market that can help tenants to budget and promote rents getting paid on time. Housing Technology asked David Hall, a senior associate at Anthony Collins Solicitors, to examine what to ask for from a financial services provider tender…
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PfH announces telecoms procurement winners
Procurement for Housing has launched a new telecommunications agreement covering the procurement of calls, lines, data and unified communications as well as mobile communications, training and consultancy. The EU-compliant framework offers housing providers three lots which can be used at the same time or individually for both new and existing contracts. Six telecom providers will…
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Universal credit & welfare reform – How we are evolving…
Paragon, like most other housing providers, is only too aware of the impact of Welfare Reform on our business. It is now more important than ever for our IT teams to work closely, not only with front-line staff, but also with senior management to streamline technology or processes – but in an ideal situation, both….
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