Housing Technology ran a series of exclusive interviews with the leading suppliers of housing management systems to gain a unique insight into their perceptions of the market, how market trends will affect housing management systems, differences between the suppliers and their thoughts on choosing the right housing managemeny system. There are a number of trends…
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Sheffield City Council’s £200m deal with Capita
Capita has been selected as Sheffield City Council’s preferred bidder to deliver business transformation for the entire Sheffield community, including housing. The contract is thought to be worth around £200m over seven years, with the option to extend it by three further two-year periods. Capita is expected to deliver a range of services including ICT,…
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OpenHousing 8.0 supports Decent Homes
IBS OpenSystems has launched version 8.0 of its OpenHousing housing management system, with added emphasis on new tools to support the processes needed to achieve the Decent Homes standard. OpenHousing v8.0 also includes new modules for the real-time monitoring of workloads and performance, and SMS texting for tenant communications, such as payment arrears or choice-based…
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Northgate signs Family Mosaic and Wolverhampton City Council
Family Mosaic has signed a three-year, £770,000 contract with Northgate Information Solutions to deliver a ‘one-stop shop’ for housing services to tenants in its 20,000 homes across London and Essex. The initiative will see Northgate enable communication and information sharing between Family Mosaic’s front- and back-office systems and the introduction of mobile services for staff…
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Editor’s Notes: Spreadsheets – just say no
The most common obstacle to housing associations and RSLs achieving efficient in-house processes and delivering joined-up services to their tenants and residents is the plethora of different systems used across the various parts of their organisations. Many of the projects we cover in Housing Technology are being carried out to either address this problem directly…
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Technology for Decent Homes
In a little over 18 months’ time, the Decent Homes legislation comes into force, with 95 per cent of all social housing organisations expected to be fully compliant. Yet despite Government targets being outlined as early as 2000, there are fears that many housing associations and councils have done little to ensure that their housing…
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