Northgate Information Solutions has been acquired by private equity group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts at an enterprise valuation of £1.1 billion and de-listed from the London Stock Exchange. The company expects to expand its public sector programme through organic growth and strategic acquisitions. Referring specifically to its social housing customers, Dave Meaden, managing director of public…
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Housing Management
Islands in the stream
A combination of the increasing IT skills of employees, as distinct from the IT department itself, and the user-friendliness of most business applications is resulting in the creation of employee- and department-specific micro-silos of data within housing associations, usually vital documents, spreadsheets or databases being stored on individual PCs or email accounts. The consequence of…
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Virtual Shoreline
Shoreline Housing Partnership has become the first housing organisation to virtualise its entire housing management systems. Shoreline was formed in March 2005 as part of a large-scale voluntary transfer. In common with many other LSVT’s, they needed to create an initial, short-term service level agreement for the provision of IT services between them and the…
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Omniledger for Franklands Village
Franklands Village Housing Association is installing the Pyramid housing management system from Omniledger to support the management of its 270 properties in Sussex, with the system expected to go live in April 2008. When making the decision to adopt Pyramid, Franklands needed to retain its community-based services, including the cash-desk functionality and direct printing to…
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Lincolnshire Rural signs with IBS
Lincolnshire Rural Housing Association will go live with a new housing management system from IBS in April 2008. The housing association, which provides housing services to some 370 properties in small rural settlements across the county, realised it needed to upgrade its IT systems in order to maintain service delivery standards. It has selected OPENHousing…
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Odyssey quadruples housing revenues
The social housing market remains profitable for Odyssey Interactive, with sales growth of more than 400 per cent in the sector in the past year. Part of Hasgrove Plc, Odyssey gained ten new housing customers in 2007, including Affinity Sutton, Carr-Gomm, Network Housing and Origin Group. Nigel Danson, managing director, Odyssey, said, “Sales of our…
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