Following two years of growth, Glasgow-based Queens Cross Housing Association has replaced its manual, paper-based HR processes with a web-based system from Access. The SelectHR tool will be used by QCHA to automate holiday requests and approvals and use workflow to make appraisals, health and safety, and flexi-time processes more efficient. The second phase of…
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General News
Mercato – Housing providers top list of poor value IT
The UK’s housing providers top a list of organisations paying over the odds for software from their IT resellers, according to new research from Mercato. The benchmarking company found that housing providers are paying exorbitant margins of up to seven times (731%) more than their resellers’ original costs, with the average margin being 36 per…
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The new way we work – brainstorming
As introduced in the previous edition of Housing Technology, the ‘new way we work’ has been on the rise in The Netherlands since 2005. A large number of Dutch housing providers are in the process of implementing New Way We Work projects. Within some of these a new way of brainstorming is being used in…
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All change – Microsoft’s licensing terms for social housing
As many of you will already know, Microsoft announced several months ago that it was likely to make significant changes to the licensing terms available to housing associations and RSLs for its software. Just before going to press with this issue, Housing Technology interviewed a number of leading housing providers and a housing consultancy on…
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Coactiva performs for First Wessex
Coactiva is due to complete the implementation of its Aspireview performance management system at First Wessex Housing Group in May 2012. First Wessex will use Aspireview as a central location to manage and monitor its performance information, initially covering corporate and departmental performance targets, risks and action plans. Tony Sanderson, corporate planning and performance manager,…
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Managing supplier performance
Demonstrating IT services’ value-for-money is now firmly on everyone’s agenda. I attended an excellent session at this year’s Housing Technology conference where the finance director of a London housing association provided great insight into what is important at an executive level; one of the key points he made was, “How will IT, and the suppliers…
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