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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Go Westward for digital transformation
Like many housing providers, Westward Housing has been reviewing and re-planning its digital transformation programme. We believe that digital transformation is a much wider concept than merely ‘channel shift’ or ‘digital by default’; it should be all encompassing, applying digital to everything we do. With the help of 3C Consultants, our digital journey began in…
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A day in the life at Coastal Housing
I’ve worked at Coastal Housing for over seven years and over six of them I’ve spent in the IT department. Back in July this year, I was promoted to be team leader of our business partner team which had just been expanded to include two others – the ‘team’ had been just me for a…
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Bernicia goes live with new Aareon HMS
Bernicia Group has gone live with a completely new housing management system from Aareon, following its earlier merger with Four Housing Group and subsequent need for a single, up-to-date suite of software. Dave Pickard, executive director of customer services, Bernicia, said, “Our overall aims were to acquire a new housing management system that would reduce…
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