While not strictly housing-specific, a recent Gartner report proposes some thought-provoking IT trends. The ‘Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users, 2011 and Beyond: IT’s Growing Transparency’ report suggests that by 2015: Information-smart businesses will increase recognised IT spending per head by 60 per cent. New revenue generated each year by IT will determine the…
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General News
Value for money leads to innovation
As one of the sponsors of the Housing Technology 2011 ‘Blueprint for IT’ market intelligence report, we were very keen to see this year’s publication and to see how themes and trends are developing in the housing sector. This year’s report provides excellent analysis of the direction of the market and a very clear message…
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Capita buys Tribal’s housing division
Tribal Group has sold its health and government consulting businesses, which include its housing division, to Capita Group for just under £16 million. In the consolidated accounts for Tribal to the end of 2010, the health and government businesses had combined gross assets of almost £72 million and combined operating losses of £2.7 million. Following…
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£400,000 Tunstall telecare at Saxon Weald
Saxon Weald has spent around £400,000 on a new telecare system from Tunstall Healthcare at its Downlands Court ‘extra care’ retirement housing in West Sussex. Tunstall’s Communicall Connect system now allows staff to communicate with residents around the clock through speech modules installed in both individual flats and communal areas. A range of sensors increase…
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Bron Afon gets Virtualboardroom
Bron Afon Community Housing in South Wales has revolutionised the production of its monthly ‘board packs’ using web-based Virtualboardroom software from Perivan. Bron Afon holds monthly board, staffing and audit committee meetings; for the main board meetings, the 150-page board pack has to be distributed to 55 people. In the past, each document in the…
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How smart are your houses?
Managing the energy consumption of your housing stock is a challenge that, with legislative changes, will become one of the critical issues of the next decade. The recent Ofgen / DECC consultation is still being reviewed with an announcement expected in early 2011. The expectation is that smart metering technologies will play a major part…
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