Cornwall’s Coastline Housing is using a dedicated training and development from Idox Group, based on the software provider’s own Open 4 Training & Development portal which was originally developed by Idox for its HR managers to find extra funding for training and learning activities. Coastline’s Idox portal went live in May 2014 after around five…
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Results of the Digital Deal funding programme
The Tinder Foundation has announced the results of its Digital Deal funding which was designed to stimulate digital inclusion activities in social housing. 12 housing providers took part in the Digital Deal, which was jointly funded by the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department for Communities and Local Government. Key findings from the…
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Benchmarking your IT services
Richard Troote, head of ICT at Wales & West Housing and chair of the Community Housing Cymru IT Network, and Henk Korevaar, founder of F-fectis, reflect on an international collaboration to find value for money (VFM) within housing providers’ IT departments. Relevance of IT benchmarking The number of housing providers contributing to IT benchmarking has…
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Kana survey reveals gap between IT intentions and realities
An independent survey commissioned by Kana Software of IT executives from housing providers managing a combined portfolio of more than 1.5 million properties in the UK has found that while most recognise the importance of new technology in delivering efficiencies and better services to tenants, fewer than 20 per cent have a full understanding of…
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Collaborate to innovate
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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