Variety, imagination, rigour & determination We’ve just completed the first round of judging the inaugural Housing Technology Awards 2024 before the entries are reviewed by our external panel of judges. Without going into the details of individual entries, the awards’ entries are a true showcase of both the breadth and depth of technology-based innovation and…
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Housing Management
Raven Housing completes three-year project with TechLabs London
TechLabs London has successfully completed Raven Housing Trust’s ‘Better Connected’ programme, a three-year digital transformation project with TechLabs London’s iProperty Cloud housing platform at its core. The Better Connected programme brought together multiple workstreams, bringing together customer excellence, property management of new and existing homes, digital and data, commercial staff and business improvements under one…
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MRI Software adopts OSCRE data standard
MRI Software has announced that its MRI Agora platform will now use a standardised data model from OSCRE International to make application integration and data sharing easier, faster and less expensive for its customers and partners. Patrick Ghilani, CEO, MRI Software, said, “MRI and OSCRE have a shared aim of improving data quality and consistency…
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Are you getting the most from your software?
Social housing can be a difficult and cumbersome sector in which to make technological change. If you’re a local authority, you’re bound by lengthy and strict processes for obtaining software. And once you’ve chosen your technology, it’s easy to find that you’ve focused so much time and effort just on obtaining and implementing a solution…
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Data quality software – Build or buy?
You’ve decided you want to take a more proactive approach to managing your data quality, but what now? There are two primary routes you can take – buy a ready-made data-quality tool or build your own. Each option has advantages and disadvantages that need to be considered, but before you do that, it’s essential to…
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Platform Housing – Automating UC verifications with RPA
During 2023, we had an opportunity to remove a large portion of manual processing and keying from our universal credit (UC) application process. In order to streamline our claim response process, we built a solution using Microsoft Power Automate RPA to imitate the behaviours of our users. The resulting benefits included improved application response rates,…
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