By 2025, all housing providers will need to be fully digital, according to recent research from Altair & 3C Consultants. That’s a bold statement to make, but one that makes you sit up and think. Imagine the clock has turned back a few years; not long ago, losing a laptop meant losing your data. In…
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Housing Management
Aareon acquires Fixflo
Aareon AG has bought housing repairs and maintenance software provider Fixflo for an undisclosed sum. Commenting on its acquisition, Aareon said that Fixflo offers a “best-in-class SaaS solution” that connects housing providers, tenants and contractors on a dedicated platform for repairs and maintenance. Fixflo was started in 2012 and its software is now used to…
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Raven Housing’s iProperty experience
We’ve successfully just gone live with TechLabs London’s iProperty Cloud, built on Microsoft’s Power Platform and Dynamics 365. Over recent months, we’ve been working with TechLabs to enhance iProperty Cloud to meet our specific needs. This first iterative go-live within our larger ‘better connected’ programme included full CRM capability, providing a 360-degree view of customer…
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Transformation in a data-rich world
Throughout the pandemic, the public sector has overcome huge challenges. Despite living through the most disruptive period in a generation, our public services have been at their best and most innovative. We’ve witnessed just how important technology is in connecting local and global communities. Using digital tools to collaborate and partner across local government, suppliers,…
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Golden Lane Housing signs with Unit4 for ERP & analytics
In a move away from best-of-breed business applications, Golden Lane Housing is deploying enterprise resource planning (ERP) and financial planning and analytics (FP&A) software from Unit4. The new software will be implemented by Integra Associates, based on the company’s housing-specific ERP methodology. Unit4’s ERP and FP&A software includes pre-configured processes and modules for local government…
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Transforming data management
As someone relatively new to social housing, what’s struck me most is what the housing sector can learn from other sectors in terms of how they could use data to deliver better outcomes for their customers. Real-time analytics Before joining ForHousing in 2018, I spent ten years developing analytic solutions for supermarkets across Europe and…
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