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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General News
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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Beating the Budget
On 22 June 2010, Chancellor George Osborne made his first budget speech to the House of Commons in which he pledged to ‘balance the books’ by 2016, slashing a massive £11 billion from the annual public expenditure bill, with £1.8 billion being earmarked for savings in social housing in this parliamentary term alone. I think…
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Montal launches £10k intranet for housing
Montal has launched a SharePoint intranet solution specifically for housing providers which the company says can be installed in five days and will cost less than £10,000. Based on Montal’s 25-year experience in housing, the Unify out-of-the-box intranet is pre-configured with numerous standard features that would normally need to be developed from scratch. Unify includes…
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