The housing sector is grappling with a range of new technologies, from chat-bots, digital transformation, cloud and off-premise hosting to the internet of things, machine learning and advanced reality modelling. Against a background of competing business priorities, deciding which of those might be applicable to your organisation is difficult in itself, aside from the related…
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Housing Management
CCG’s digital transformation with MIS AMS
Cartrefi Cymunedol Gwynedd is using software from MIS AMS to underpin its digital transformation strategy. The housing provider has chosen ActiveH as its core business system to streamline its internal processes and the Customer Portal for digital services. Llŷr Aled Hughes, business transformation project manager, Cartrefi Cymunedol Gwynedd, said, “We knew a digital makeover would…
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Goliath vs. Lots of Davids…
Making the most of best-of-breed applications and ERP in housing Housing Technology interviewed ERP, application and integration specialists from DtL Creative (David Loudon, founder), Hitachi Solutions Europe (Ciara McMillan, industry director for housing), Mobysoft (Glenn Phillips, CTO) and Manifest Software Solutions (Dave Carr, director) on the merits of housing providers using a single ERP-style platform…
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Aareon’s view of housing trends
In the lead up to Housing Technology’s 2019 conference and executive forum, Aareon’s head of business development, Ian Lockwood, discussed some of the conference’s main themes and how they affect housing providers’ technology plans. Going back to basics, how should housing providers use their ‘traditional’ IT applications and infrastructure better and more innovatively? IT systems…
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Get Housing Technology’s ‘The E-State of the Nation’ report
Housing Technology has just published ‘The E-State of the Nation 2018/19’ report, covering UK social housing providers’ current and future plans for their IT estates and how technology underpins all of their business operations. The report is based on a comprehensive online survey of over 150 senior IT and business executives from UK housing providers…
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Loving your data
It’s estimated that the total amount of data in the world doubles every two years and that by 2020, the amount of information in existence will be 45 zettabytes – that’s 45 trillion gigabytes. To put that another way, if all of that information was stored on 128Gb iPads, you would need to build a…
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