Family Mosaic is tackling the complex area of accurately allocating service charges using Bluebox property management software from Trace Solutions. Bluebox will automate the majority of the service charge processes, replacing the hundreds of individual spreadsheets that Family Mosaic was using before. Pam Moran, head of customer accounts, Family Mosaic, said, “Our systems were originally…
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Finance Management
SDS links with Savills for appraisals & valuations
Software developer SDS and Savills have agreed to link the Savills Automated Valuation Model (AVM) with the SDS ProVal viability appraisal application. Savills entered into a partnership last year with Rightmove to make their desktop tool for referencing rents and capital values available to the affordable housing sector. This latest agreement with SDS will give…
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Welfare reform – Taking credit where it’s due
With just over a year until universal credit and its associated welfare reforms are expected to be introduced, Housing Technology gauged the housing sector’s opinion on the likely results of this massive change to finance in social housing and its IT impacts. The planned introduction of universal credit will have a very direct impact on…
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Affinity Sutton live with Capita P2P system
Affinity Sutton has reported the successful implementation of a new procure-to-pay (P2P) system from Capita IB Solutions as part of a group amalgamation project last year. The new system replaces an older OpenText-based system and, latterly, a manual paper-based system for purchase ordering. Affinity Sutton’s amalgamation project has been one of the biggest change projects…
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Competitive dialogue – Tender is the fight
This is the first in a series of articles from Viridian’s project consultant, John Paul, covering the various stages of a live Competitive Dialogue procurement process. Subsequent articles will track the progress of the project, from its inception through to, we hope, contract signatures. I can’t remember when ‘procurement’ replaced ‘purchasing’ in our management vocabulary…
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Bridging the digital divide makes economic and social sense
2013 is the year when benefit payments will be made online. For many housing associations in the UK, this will create challenges around how their tenants access this money and use it to pay their rents. But this also presents an opportunity to get tenants using the internet now to not only pay bills but…
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