Standfirst: Gentoo Group went live in February 2012 with a new online purchase ordering system from Orchard. Gentoo, an Orchard customer since 2002, has already rolled out the OpenAccounts eFinance and Version One solution to 250 users from a total of 500 planned users. Purchase order processing has now been implemented across the business, with…
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Finance Management
Shared services boost – MidlandHR report
HR and payroll software provider MidlandHR recently published a report on shared services in the public sector, covering the different shared services models, the barriers to project approval, business drivers, the technology infrastructure, and the resulting business and financial benefits. Some of the findings from MidlandHR’s report include: Shared service models – Of the organisations…
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Peabody chooses SDS for development & planning
Shelton Development Services has won a £40,000 contract to supply Peabody with its housing development viability and project management software. The systems are now installed and final training took place at the end of February 2012. SDS ProVal and SDS Sequel will be used by Peabody’s development and finance teams to manage all projects. Peabody…
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Keep it simple – How to solve your component accounting requirements
With only three months to go until the deadline for SORP compliance, you may well have done (or not!) most of the work on your component accounting which is now sitting in a spreadsheet. You have perhaps read the articles about all-singing and all-dancing asset management systems (see Housing Technology, November 2011) and are now…
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Tackling tenancy fraud
The Audit Commission estimated the level of tenancy fraud as involving 50,000 properties in 2009, while official figures from the National Fraud Authority suggest that it costs the public purse £900 million a year, but fraud analysts believe the figure may be even higher. The topic of housing fraud is extremely high profile at the…
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Adactus Housing streamlines finance workflow with Invu
Adactus Housing Group has completed the first phase of its £86,000 implementation of a document management system from Invu to automate the processing of transactions from over 700 suppliers, including the digitisation of over 40,000 existing invoices. The Invu document management and workflow is now being used to remove as much manual intervention as possible…
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