IT consultancy ThoughtWorks is using Agile development to create a tailor-made tenant and property management system for Catalyst Housing Group. As part of Catalyst’s Vision 2012 strategic change programme, ThoughtWorks will migrate the housing provider’s existing selection of off-the-shelf and in-house systems to a single core system to double its transactional capacity. System development has…
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Housing Management
Orbit live with ActiveH
Orbit Housing Group, which now manages almost 40,000 properties and has 1,800 staff, has taken just 100 days to deploy its new MIS-AMS systems, from signing contracts in December 2008 to the live deployment of the first phase of the project, consisting of new workflow, CRM, repairs, reporting and rent modules. The second phase included…
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Leathermarket active with MIS-AMS
Leathermarket Joint Management Board is about to start the implementation of new housing and financial management systems from MIS Active Management Systems. The ActiveH housing system and Microsoft Dynamics finance system, for which MIS-AMS is a licensed developer and reseller, are both expected to be fully operational by November 2010 and will be used by…
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Orchard grows its own MD
Orchard Information Systems has appointed Ian Shard as its new managing director, replacing Peter Hunt who will become executive chairman for the housing systems provider. Shard joined Orchard in 1989 a project manager and spent the subsequent 11 years as Orchard’s implementation manager and latterly as its professional services director. Before joining Orchard, Shard was…
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Capita on the move with TotalMobile
Also in the news, Capita and TotalMobile Solutions launched a joint mobile solution in April which works across both Capita and other third-party back-office systems, enabling their customers to run a single mobile solution across the organisation. The Capita TotalMobile solution has been developed with the field worker in mind so is not constrained by…
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Capita supports Darlington’s housing services
Darlington Borough Council has awarded a three-year contract worth more than £100,000 to Capita Software Services to deliver its supported housing systems, with the aim of improving services for homeless and vulnerable people by streamlining existing processes. Capita is providing the Capita Support gateway system and Capita Support Housing Options Advice Management System (HOAMS) to…
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