Equity Housing has completed the implementation of its new Aareon QL housing management system. Dan Curtis, director of technology, innovation and business intelligence, Equity Housing, said, “The first phase of our overall Aareon implementation has gone very well and all of the Equity staff are now working with Aareon QL. “The objectives for this project…
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Housing Management
Hitachi Solutions wins Microsoft partner award
Hitachi Solutions Europe has announced that it has won Microsoft’s 2019 ‘global government partner of the year’ award. Over the past year, Hitachi Solutions has delivered innovative Microsoft solutions for customers across housing and local and central government including transforming tenant engagement with housing providers across digital and other channels, using IoT to reduce the…
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A new deal for housing… What’s the role for digital?
This autumn the leaders of the social housing sector will be looking at how to implement ‘A new deal for housing’. It’s over two years since the devastating fire ripped through the Grenfell Tower block in West London and left 72 dead and hundreds homeless. Since then there have been several inquiries and policy consultations…
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Family buy-out at MIS Group
Twin brothers Andy and Chris McLaughlin have completed a management buy-out of their family business, the Cheshire-based MIS Group, supplier of the well-known ActiveH housing management system. The McLaughlin twins have bought MIS Group through a four-year deferred consideration for a near eight-figure sum. The business has been bought from its founder, their father, Stewart…
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You can’t get there from here…
It’s fair to say that from an IT systems’ perspective, the housing sector is at a crossroads in terms of how it deals with the challenges of mobile, digital, data management and, most recently, capabilities such as AI and IoT. Meanwhile, the IT procurement history in the sector has been predominantly ‘best of breed’ acquisitions,…
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North View Housing opts for HomeMaster
North View Housing is set to implement Designer Software’s HomeMaster web-based housing and finance management system. The new system is planned to be operational by December 2019. Euan Anderson, director, North View Housing, said, “We have been impressed by the Designer Software team and their in-depth understanding of our requirements. HomeMaster’s complete operational mobility will…
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