Harry Metcalfe, managing director of dxw, a digital service provider to the public sector, provides an update on the latest government initiatives to provide a workable procurement framework for agile digital services. The successful development of user-focused digital services is a vital part of housing’s future. Increasingly, tenants will demand these solutions. But even if…
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General News
New apprentices join Salix Homes
As regular readers will know, Housing Technology is a great supporter of housing providers’ apprenticeship schemes so we’re delighted to report that Salix Homes in Salford has just taken on nine new apprentices (from 150 applicants) in its environmental maintenance and security teams. Salix Homes also reported that it was one of the first housing…
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Southern IT Forum meeting at Microsoft
The Southern IT Forum’s June meeting was held at Microsoft’s offices in London towards the end of last month. The session started off with a presentation from Microsoft’s public-sector cloud strategist, Jeremy Tolmie, who took the group through IT transformation trends and Microsoft’s cloud services. He was followed by Steve Hughes, a Microsoft technology solutions…
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First Wessex chooses ProjectVault for collaborative file sharing
Document management and digital specialist Service Point has won a two and a half year contract with First Wessex Homes to provide it with access to ProjectVault, Service Point’s proprietary online document management system. ProjectVault will enable First Wessex to create a single point of contact for multiple partners working on a project, with the…
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Coactiva hires dedicated housing expert
Public-sector IT company Coactiva has created its first dedicated role for the social housing sector with the appointment of Kevin Gilhooly as its senior business development manager for the sector. Gilhooly’s appointment is accompanied by six other new recruits, each addressing different public-sector areas. Before joining Coactiva, Gilhooly spent a decade at Housing Partners where,…
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Cloud-based CCTV supplement from Cloudview and Housing Technology
For the first of Housing Technology’s new series of ‘In-Depth 2015’ supplements, we have teamed up with Cloudview to look at how housing providers can use the latest cloud-based technologies to reduce the cost, effort and time of using their new or existing CCTV infrastructures to track anti-social behaviour and crime, as well as extend…
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