In 2007 I visited the InMotion conference organised by Xmbrace. This was an impressive event, with everyone who was anyone in the mobile working space present. Back then, the talk was almost exclusively concerned with maintenance field force automation; repairs operatives in vans, GPS, how to introduce scheduling, rugged devices and promises of integration with…
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Housing Management
Oneserve launches cloud-based business intelligence & analytics
Field service management software provider Oneserve has unveiled a new cloud-based business intelligence and analytics platform to enable housing providers to quickly and easily extract and interrogate their data to help them make better decisions about their service delivery. Oneserve said that housing providers will find that real-time data from the field will enable them…
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Magenta Living’s paper-less meetings with BoardPad
Magenta Living is now using BoardPad software to replace paper-based board packs for its senior executives’ meetings. The housing provider holds a combination of 30 board and committee meetings each year, with 16 board packs needed for each meeting. The collation of paper board packs was taking Magenta’s administration team two days to produce for…
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First Choice Homes Oldham takes ROCC’s Uniclass HMS
First Choice Homes Oldham has recently taken on ROCC Uniclass, combined with Kirona DRS, Web Booking Manager and Mobile, for its repairs and maintenance operations. The implementation follows FCHO’s plans to increase the number of contracts carried out by its team of around 100 workers. Each year, the team currently complete around 33,000 responsive repairs…
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Inspiring change in social housing
What does it take to get the people who work in social housing really inspired? Well, at the Housing Technology 2015 conference this month, Barry Marlow and I both had a really good go at it. Barry is one of those charismatic, dyed in the wool housing types who work with housing providers to help…
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Abritas delivers better CBL services for Select Move
Select Move, which provides choice-based letting services to housing providers and local authorities, has transformed its CBL website by using Abritas’s latest housing portal, at the same time as streamlining its ‘enhanced housing options’ offering. Select Move has used its original Abritas system to provide CBL services since 2005 when it was originally implemented by…
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