Our brand-new Digital By Default 2012 report, published in association with Race Online 2012, is now complete and will be launched on 28 November; you can pre-order your copy now from housingtechdev.wpengine.com/dbd. Digital By Default 2012 is the first report to focus on digital exclusion in the UK social housing sector. Kindly sponsored by Family…
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General News
Auditing your IT suppliers
When was the last time you audited your IT providers and their supply chains? For most housing providers, they haven’t done so since the original tendering process or during the award of the contract. Increasingly, procurement processes cover whether the prospective supplier has a business continuity plan, and whether it has been used or at…
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CarelineUK’s £125k telecare deal with Trust Housing
Trust Housing has agreed a four-year contract with CarelineUK for telecare services to 1,700 users in 23 local authority areas across Scotland. The contract will run until April 2015 and is worth around £125,000. The contract covers out-of-hours and alarm monitoring for Trust’s residents, and extends CarelineUK’s presence in Scotland where it is already supporting…
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Food for thought – Gartner IT trends for 2011-2015
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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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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