The National Housing Federation’s IT department has achieved accreditation to the National Computing Centre’s Standard for IT. The Federation’s IT department is responsible for the provision of IT services to 150 staff as well as delivering ICT services to the Federation’s conference centre in London and its regional offices in Manchester, Bristol and Birmingham. Rob…
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IT rental – Is it right for you?
Joanna Sedley-Burke, business development director at Sovereign Business Integration, considers how an IT rental model could help housing providers cut costs. Are housing providers wasting valuable capital resources on purchasing IT equipment? In light of the government’s recent housing budget cuts and the pressure on cost-savings across all public sector organisations, it is increasingly important…
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Securing your future through technology
Necessity is the mother of invention, never more so than when the government of the day presents you with budget cuts of 25 per cent or more. Accustomed to regarding their ICT systems as tiresome obligations that soak up money, housing providers need to start thinking of these systems as weapons in their survival armoury…
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First housing provider for ProcServe e-procurement
Alternative Futures Group has been announced as the first housing provider to go live with ProcServe’s eMarketplace system for electronic procurement, delivered in partnership with Procurement for Housing. The PfH Marketplace is a dedicated e-procurement and purchase-to-pay system specifically for housing providers, with the aim of helping them to reduce the cost of goods and…
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Housing hat-trick for CES
Paragon, Govanhill and Inquilab housing associations have simultaneously launched new web sites developed by CES Services Management using its Podium content management system. Each project took around 10 weeks to complete and cost an average of £7,500. Margaret Torrance, director, Paragon Housing Association, said, “More and more people are accessing our services through the internet…
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i-Talent recruitment tool from ConsultCIH
The Chartered Institute of Housing’s consultancy service, ConsultCIH, has unveiled a free web-based recruitment tool. i-Talent allows housing providers to manage the complete recruitment process, from the decision to fill a vacancy through to making the appointment with a full online application process and candidate tracking. The new system is based on based on Recruit…
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