When reviewing which software to buy for a housing provider, much of the required functionality, such as asset management, HR, rent collection and so on, is found in traditional ERPs. If you wanted to make a snap purchasing decision, an ERP system will typically fulfil a housing provider’s basic needs. For the first few weeks…
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General News
Itica appoints new directors
Itica has recently appointed Martin Joy and John Doughty as new directors of the company. Joy has been a consultant for Itica for a number of years and previously held CIO and IT director positions in a number of blue-chip organisations. Doughty has over 20 years’ experience in the social housing sector and was previously…
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A single IT platform or best-of-breed?
Housing Technology interviewed Itica’s director, Neville Brown, on the merits of best-of-breed applications vs. enterprise resource planning (ERP) software in social housing. What’s the background to the single platform vs. best-of-breed debate? The housing sector is undergoing significant change at a time when the options for delivering systems are increasing, therefore it’s right that housing…
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Edge value – How to achieve BoBSVoT…
The premise of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems is simple; by integrating all of an organisation’s processes and data into a single platform, efficiency, effectiveness and security can all be increased while lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO). To further ‘acronymise’, in housing providers’ IT departments this is often conflated with achieving a single…
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BT’s Brunkard joins Accent
Accent has appointed Philip Brunkard, a senior BT consultant, as a non-executive director on its newly formed customer experience committee. Philip Brunkard, CIO for regional government and health, BT, said, “I’m really looking forward to working with my new colleagues to deliver Accent’s key objectives around fantastic service and new homes, which will help Accent…
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ForViva scraps appraisals for real-time MHR check-ins
ForViva has replaced its annual appraisal process with ‘continuous conversations’ supported by real-time ‘check-ins’ using an application from HR and payroll software supplier MHR. ForViva decided to remove its employees’ annual appraisals and interim reviews because they were proving costly both in terms of time and resource while areas for the employees’ improvement were typically…
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