Mansfield District Council is in the middle of replacing its 30-year old Unix-based housing management system with an integrated solution from Aareon, 1st Touch and Documotive. The new system is scheduled to go live in April 2014. At the end of 2012, the council’s housing department employed Sector Group to help it with the procurement…
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Cloud-based property management software from Hexagon
Hexagon Software just launched a software-as-a-service (SaaS) version of its property management software, with its costs starting from £20 per user per month. Designed to meet the needs of housing providers that don’t have the necessary in-house infrastructure or resources to manage their own property management system, Hexagon’s new service is available as a SaaS…
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Aareon announces four new customers in Scotland
Barrhead Housing, Orkney Housing, Welso Housing and Williamsburgh Housing have all recently signed with Aareon for a mixture of its QL Housing and QL Financial software. Barrhead Housing Association began its procurement process early in 2013 and chose QL Housing and QL Financials. The implementation began in June 2013. Orkney Housing Association started a review…
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Trafford Housing consolidates IT services with Capita
Capita’s software services business has won a seven-year contract to provide Trafford Housing Trust with its full OpenHousing software suite, which includes modules such as housing management and property development through to maintenance and asset management. The contract will enable Trafford Housing to have a single repository for all data about its properties and customers,…
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Orchard & Mosaic Island transform Catalyst Housing
Catalyst Housing has embarked on a major IT transformation programme with Orchard and Mosaic Island. The agile delivery methodology underpinning the project is working well, with several key milestones already achieved between April and June this year. Like many housing providers, Catalyst found themselves with a myriad of applications and business processes accumulated over the…
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Journey into the known… Preparing for the trip
In the first of a series of articles covering Barnet Group’s selection and implementation of new applications for housing management, CRM, business intelligence and HR, Mandy Dunstan, head of business transformation at The Barnet Group, outlines the background to this company-wide technology initiative. How do you take a passion for improving services, the opportunity to…
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