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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Raven Housing signs iProperty Cloud for digital transformation
Techlabs London has signed a three-year partnership with Raven Housing Trust to implement its full iProperty Cloud suite for housing CRM. As part of a new agile digital transformation programme covering all areas from tenancy management to property repairs, the partnership will give the housing provider access to the broad range of capabilities of Microsoft’s…
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100 per cent digital at Qlinker
Around three years ago, Qlinker was presented as the first digital housing provider in The Netherlands, with the experience of 100 years of social housing, yet also without the restrictions of 100 years of social housing. Qlinker’s lead architect, Marcel Vogel, explains the out-of-the-box thinking and innovation behind Qlinker and the successful letting of its…
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The road to robotic process automation at Flagship
In 2019, Flagship Group began exploring robotic process automation (RPA) as a way of improving business processes. Flagship’s head of technology, Yogesh Gohil, takes us through the motivations, challenges and all-important results of this innovation journey. Beginning the journey We approached RPA as part of a wider initiative to become a future-ready employer. In simple…
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Sovereign Housing’s BI plans with Civica and Microsoft
Sovereign Housing has chosen Civica for the delivery of its new Microsoft-based data warehouse as well as improved business intelligence capabilities. Sovereign currently has numerous applications for its tenant services, making it difficult for the housing provider to gain insights from the data spread across those applications. With the government’s annual ‘housing sector risk profile’…
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