Over the past 15 years since Alastair Tweedie (co-founder and editor) and I started Housing Technology, it has been incredible to witness how Housing Technology’s subscribers, guests, contributors and customers have all been integral to the evolution of social housing technology. Since the establishment of Housing Technology in 2007, these key stakeholders have led the…
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General News
iO Associates’ fixed-price transformation projects
iO Associates has launched a fixed-price, full project delivery service covering all aspect of housing providers’ business and technology transformation projects, from inception through to realisation, underpinned by an immediate return on investment. The company’s fixed-price model covers three stages, spanning an initial consultative phase, followed by staffing and project delivery, and concluding with end-user…
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MRI Social Housing – Three years later…
Three years after MRI Software bought Orchard Systems, Castleton Technology and Housing Partners, Housing Technology interviewed Deborah Matthews, the company’s managing director of social housing. What have been the biggest changes at MRI Software over the past three years? Since MRI’s acquisitions all took place in a single year, we initially needed time to consider…
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Cadcorp launches new EPC data service
Cadcorp has launched a new cloud-hosted data service, providing EPC ratings for all residential properties in Great Britain. Cadcorp’s EPC service includes access to the latest EPC ratings for over 10 million residential properties in Great Britain, quarterly updates from Cadcorp, and spatial database access for running EPC-related queries and analytics. Specific uses for Cadcorp’s…
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IT operating models in housing
The way that an organisation organises its technology function is commonly called an ‘IT operating model’. It should be there to support an organisation’s goals and be aligned to what the organisation wants from technology and data. Gartner identifies five primary IT operating model patterns. Asset (as in IT stuff, not housing), process, service, value,…
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Review of Data Matters 2023
Housing Technology’s second successful Data Matters one-day event took place at The British Museum in central London earlier this month. Kindly sponsored by 3C Consultants, Aareon, IntoZetta, Social Telecoms and Switchee, Data Matters attracted a packed audience of over 120 data specialists from housing providers, with the event completely sold out beforehand. With 11 presentations…
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