The relationship between a housing provider and a software provider should never be an arms-length one, explains Gavin Hitchcock, head of ICT at Futures Housing Group. At Futures Housing Group, we have reaped the benefits of an increasingly close working relationship with our software provider Orchard Information Systems. From this has come a suite of…
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Octavia trial makes district heating hot topic for landlords
A pilot project by Octavia Housing is helping landlords re-think how they deliver heat and tackle fuel poverty in thousands of properties across the UK supplied by district heating systems, by allowing them to monitor system performance and energy use in real-time. Octavia has teamed up with green energy specialist Guru Systems for the project,…
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HomeSwapper – 25 per cent increase in mutual exchanges
An increasing number of tenants are using home-swapping services as a result of welfare reform, according to figures from Housing Partners, the company behind the HomeSwapper mutual exchange platform. Figures from Housing Partners show that the number of tenants swapping using HomeSwapper has risen by a quarter since April 2013. The data also shows that…
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EDM at Port of Leith with Invu
Port of Leith Housing Association is mid-way through a project with Invu to digitise more than 50,000 documents, replacing its previous manual process of filing and storing all paper-based documents. The £32,000 project is expected to be completed this summer, and in doing so will free up significant amounts of storage space amounting to 30…
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Enterprise search & BI from Clearview for Villages Housing
Villages Housing is implementing Clearview’s enterprise search engine-based business intelligence and reporting suite in order to make sense of all the data it holds across disparate systems. Villages recognised that the volume of data it held had increased significantly since the Capita IBS applications were installed in 2008. This growth of data has been generated…
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eShare launches new BoardPacks
eShare has released an updated version of its web- and app-based software for governance and meeting management. The new BoardPacks upgrades eShare’s current software with a fresh, intuitive design that makes meeting management easier. The accompanying apps for iOS and Windows tablets allow directors to work from anywhere, providing secure access to their meeting packs,…
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