Omniledger has extended its Pyramid housing management system to incorporate a Microsoft Outlook interface which sends staff emails, tasks and reminders at key trigger points. Each department can create its own trigger points tailored to its specific needs, such as maintenance staff creating alerts for overdue repairs or inspections, or housing officers setting up alerts…
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Housing Management
£75 million repair & maintenance contracts for Morrison
Morrison, the maintenance and repairs service provider, is the preferred bidder on four long-term contracts worth a total of £75 million from Amicus Horizon, East Durham Homes, One Housing Group and Riverside South. The Amicus deal is worth £3.7 million per year over eight years, covering responsive repairs and void maintenance services for Amicus’ 9000…
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OmniLedger’s Pyramid HMS now online
OmniLedger has extended its Pyramid housing management system with Pyramid Online to allow tenants to access their rent account, raise or enquire on current repairs and update their personal information, all via the RSL’s web site. All data for the Pyramid Online service is hosted off-site by OmniLedger on a dedicated server and automatically updated…
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Bracknell Forest’s £600,000 deal with Northgate
As part of its housing improvement and refurbishment plans, Bracknell Forest Homes has signed a five-year, £600,000 contact with Northgate Public Services. Northgate and BFH, who together employ around 340 people locally, began work last month on the new system to support BFH’s housing management and repairs services. It is expected to be live in…
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Taking a broad view
Michael Newey is group chief executive of Broadland Housing Association which provides 4500 homes across Norfolk and Suffolk, and recently acquired training and employment services charity Meridian East. I joined Broadland as chief executive in 2003. The IT infrastructure I inherited was rather chaotic with a diverse mixture of hardware, operating systems and applications so…
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Weaver Vale repairs three-times faster with NDL
Cheshire-based Weaver Vale Housing Trust is using AWI integration technology from NDL to integrate its Orchard arcHouse housing management system with its Xmbrace Opti-Time dynamic scheduling application and enabling remote, PDA-based access for its repairs team. In doing so, Weaver Vale has reduced the time it takes to respond and fix the 1500 repair requests…
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