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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General News
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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QlikView & Castle boost Rockingham Forest’s performance
Rockingham Forest Housing has completed the implementation of a business intelligence solution from Qlikview to run over its OmniLedger housing management system in order to deliver more timely and accurate performance reports. The implementation was carried out by Castle Computer Services. The housing provider reported that, before the introduction of the Qlikview system, it was…
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Why agile is the answer for Circle Housing
In an era of change, housing providers must evolve to keep pace with developments in the housing sector, in an environment of increased financial pressures created by a lack of reliable funding, continuing welfare policy changes and to help meet the ever-growing need for housing. We must also respond to the demands of our tenants…
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