When lockdown hit, it immobilised the entire housing sector; staff had to move to working from home, tenants and clients could only be supported online or over the phone and all repairs and maintenance work was brought to a sharp halt. Fast forward to now, after months of moving operations online and trying to digitise…
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Housing Management
Great Places signs up for Aareon’s software suite
Great Places Housing has chosen Aareon for its new suite of housing management software and digital solutions. Great Places has bought Aareon QL ERP, 1st Touch Mobile for remote working, 1st Touch Self-Service App and 360 Customer Portal for tenant engagement, and 360 Contractor Portal for contractor management. Sharon Hayes, director of technology services, Great…
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Are business analysts under-appreciated?
With its ever-increasing reliance on technology to automate mundane processes and free up people to do the things that technology can’t do, the housing sector faces a big challenge in terms of keeping up with the pace of change and ensuring that what it delivers adds value. As a practising business analyst in the housing…
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Clarion Housing appoints Matterlab for digital vision
Clarion Housing Group appointed London-based Matterlab as its partner to develop its digital vision. Matterlab will lead the implementation of some of Clarion’s new digital technologies (including building information management), workflows and tools throughout the housing provider’s operations, starting with its development function. Clarion is currently developing digital strategies to revolutionise how its customers engage…
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IT goes green
The importance of green computing in housing Housing Technology interviewed a number of exponents of ‘green IT’ from Civica, Node4, Northgate Public Services and Propeller Powered about how and why housing providers might consider adopting environmentally considerate computing practices and the potential benefits of doing so. What is ‘green IT’? Node4’s head of sales enablement,…
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Aareon launches QL Next Generation
Aareon UK is launching Aareon QL Next Generation, a cloud-ready, browser-based and user-focused iteration of the company’s housing-specific ERP system. Instead of designing the new system itself, Aareon enlisted the close involvement of its customers to completely redesign the way the product works, directly based on its customers’ end-users’ requirements via a series of workshops…
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