Reading the last issue of Housing Technology, a few items caught my attention: Orbit with its timeline; Futures Housing with its tenant engagement apps; along with the articles with ‘digital’ in the headline. Those articles made me think of what ‘wonder pills’ the IT industry has prescribed, and what ‘lotions & potions’ the software providers…
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General News
Reason Digital makes impact with SRoI tool
Reason Digital has developed its Impact software to help housing providers to measure, manage and report on the social return on investment (SRoI) of their projects. The cloud-based tool helps housing providers to save time, prevents the need to scour old spreadsheets and PDFs for data, and ensures that no social value is missed out…
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Benchmarking – The importance of efficiency
Benchmarking is important to compare performance and review efficiency; it enables comparisons to be drawn between you and similar organisations. Using benchmarking to drill into the strengths and weaknesses of your organisation enables smarter decision making, improved efficiency and enhances lean processes by reducing anything that is not adding value. Within the social housing sector,…
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Virtual thin-clients at Lewisham Homes
Lewisham Homes has completed a project to install cloud, virtualisation and VDI technologies from VMware and Citrix and thin-clients from IGEL throughout its head office as part of a ‘ground up’ investment in class-leading enterprise IT. Manni Etsetowaghan, head of IT, Lewisham Homes, said, “New IT infrastructure was needed as we consolidated office space to…
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Alysium Consulting gains Sovereign staff
Alysium Consulting, set up by Ian Lever, Lesley Buckels and Phil Smith two years ago, has recently made two new senior appointments with the addition of Jacqueline Stoggall and Tim Cowland from Sovereign Business Integration Group’s housing division. Ian Lever, managing director, Alysium Consulting, said, “We are pleased to have Jacqui and Tim on board….
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Sunrise ITSM at Castleton Technology
Castleton Technology has announced that it is using Sunrise Software’s IT service management (ITSM) solution to enhance the IT support and managed services provided to its customers. Replacing four different helpdesk systems, Sunrise is now also used as the engineering service desk, scheduling time, workload, stock levels and project deliveries. Paul Rogers, professional services director,…
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