Housing providers collect a wealth of data about assets, customers, operations and, increasingly, smart devices. It’s well documented that data is proliferating at an alarming rate and no longer sits just on premise but in the cloud as well. Using point solutions to manage and unlock the hidden value in your data only solves part…
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Housing Management
Proptechs and IT start-ups in housing
Following our last overview of the start-up IT companies in our sector (see Housing Technology magazine, January 2020), we return again for 2021 with a selection of ‘proptech’ companies and IT start-ups that are devoting either all or most of their focus on developing exciting new technologies for social housing, based on the recommendations we…
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Squared away with MRI Software
Despite the first coronavirus lockdown, Squared Housing has embarked on a transformation project to overcome back-office inefficiencies across its operations. In February 2020, after a review of the market and their current systems, Squared Housing’s IT and finance director, Steve Behan, decided to move to a cloud-based software suite and implement solutions more suited to…
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Low-code – Reaching that extra 20 per cent
A recent survey from Gartner suggests that by 2024 low-code software development will be responsible for over 65 per cent of application activity across all sectors. Low-code is a visual approach to developing software, which aims to automate every step of the application lifecycle, enabling the rapid delivery of a variety of solutions. Our developers…
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Fire safety technology – Coming to a server near you…
This issue of Housing Technology has several articles and interviews on how technology is being used to improve fire safety. While fire safety and its associated technologies have historically been more of an area for housing providers’ facilities managers than their IT staff, Housing Technology expects that IT departments will soon be more involved in…
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New public-sector APIs from Ordnance survey
As part of the Geospatial Commission’s Public Sector Geospatial Agreement, over 5,500 public sector organisations now have direct and immediate access to Ordnance Survey’s most detailed and trusted location data via a suite of APIs which will transform how geospatial data is used to support government policy and underpin public services. Free at the point…
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