Bournville Village Trust has deployed Notify’s incident management software for audits, inspections and checklists. Via Notify’s mobile app linked to a central management portal, the housing provider is using the software to report safety near-misses and incidents as well as safeguarding issues. Following its adoption of Notify, Bournville Village Trust has since seen a 300…
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GDPR – Empowering the ‘consumer citizen’ in housing
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force in May 2018; it’s arrival harmonised data privacy laws across Europe as well as boosting rights for individuals, giving them greater control over their information and how it is handled by organisations. It has also given citizens a stronger sense of ownership over their personal data….
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Beyond the office – The customer-centric IT team
Silva Homes has been undergoing a major transformation over the last 18 months and the way we use technology is at the heart of this change. This is a major change for a business that had been pretty sceptical about the importance and role of IT. When I joined Silva, I soon realised that my…
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Women in housing IT
Housing Technology interviewed a group of women involved in housing IT from Adra, Civica, Community Housing, Northgate Public Services, PIMSS Data Systems, Prodo Digital and Rochdale Boroughwide Housing about their various roles in IT, any challenges they’ve faced as women in a traditionally fairly male-dominated sector and how more women can be encouraged to consider…
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South Yorkshire Housing goes Microsoft-first with TSG
Award-winning Microsoft partner TSG is supporting South Yorkshire Housing in its plans to go ‘Microsoft first’ throughout its operations. Taking a Microsoft-first approach, the housing provider is using numerous modules from the Microsoft Office 365 suite including OneDrive, Teams, Power Apps, Power Automate (previously Flow) and a new enterprise-wide SharePoint EDRM platform. Office 365 and…
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Business intelligence with Excel and Power BI
Power Pivot in Excel and Power BI are amazing tools that can deliver substantial efficiency savings and provide an awesome level of analysis and insight; working with data has never been easier. Our story Five years ago we realised, like most housing organisations, that we had lots of data in a variety of different databases…
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