Following the recent stock transfer between Ribble Valley Borough Council to Ribble Valley Homes, the housing organisation has migrated its housing management system from Northgate iWorld to Orchard ArcHouse. To ensure a smooth transition, staff at Ribble Valley Homes have received training on the new system from v47 Training. Christine Grimshaw, managing director, Ribble Valley…
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£1m social housing deal for Civica
A2 Dominion Housing Group, Three Rivers Housing Association, Meres & Mosses Housing Association and building services firm Jackson Lloyd have recently signed separate contracts with Civica for the upgrading of their front- and back-office systems. Each organisation is expected to deploy specific solutions based on Civica’s Universal Housing, Contact Manager and Servitor products, with a…
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Community Housing Group takes IBS
Worcestershire-based Community Housing Group is focusing on streamlining its internal processes and improving customer service following the signing of a £100,000 contract with IBS OpenSystems. With 5500 homes around Kidderminster, Bewdley and Stourport, Community Housing Group expects to see efficiency gains in its processing of invoices, payroll, job contracts, timesheets and other internal processes when…
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Good housekeeping for Decent Homes
A recent report from Tribal Consulting has stressed the importance for social housing organisations to adopt good programme management systems to manage the work required to meet the requirements of the Government’s Decent Homes initiative. The ‘Current approaches to managing housing improvement programmes’ report produced by Tribal on behalf of Delcam PS-Team looks at what…
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ICT award for United House
United House has been commended for its Flag process management system in the recent Quality in Construction awards. The Flag systems, developed for United House by Propeller, is designed to integrate all of the different processes that are involved in refurbishment projects, enabling United House to manage a £200 million Decent Homes order book, including…
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Bromford Group active with MIS
Having been an MIS customer for the past 12 years, Bromford Group is now standardising its technology infrastructure around the MIS ActiveH suite of products to support its management of more than 25,000 properties across central England. Steve Percival, group director of ICT, Bromford Group, said, “We have grown substantially over the last decade and…
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