Sovereign Housing Association has chosen HCL PowerObjects for a £1.3 million Microsoft Dynamics 365 project to link its customer contact, tenancy management and home ownership teams together on a single system. Dynamics will be rolled out incrementally across Sovereign during the next two years. At the moment, Sovereign’s various teams each need to use a…
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Housing Management
Northgate’s £1m deal with Northumberland County Council
Northumberland County Council has upgraded its IT systems to NPS Housing from Northgate Public Services. The £1 million upgrade is aimed at making it easier for the council’s tenants to manage their rental payments and improve the council’s management of its 8,500 homes. Philip Soderquest, head of housing and public protection, Northumberland County Council, said,…
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Capability models and ‘black swan’ moments
In the housing sector, the past few years have seen some significant ‘black swan’ moments, causing many to radically rethink how they do what they do and change their strategic direction. Rent reductions, Grenfell, regulation, digitisation, new technologies and so on – each of these is disruptive in its own right but when concurrent, they…
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Torus and Aareon collaborate on housing and asset management
Torus Group has selected Aareon’s QL software to underpin its business. As well as the Aareon software resulting in a reduction in the number of separate business applications in use across the group from 27 to seven, the asset management module has reduced the housing provider’s annual maintenance costs by 60 per cent. Once chosen…
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Halton Housing hires new COO
Halton Housing has appointed Nicole Kershaw as its new chief operating officer. Kershaw joined Halton Housing on an interim basis in June 2018 to help with a service review. She has previously worked in the private sector and in social housing at several organisations including The Guinness Partnership. Ingrid Fife, group board chair, Halton Housing,…
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MHR’s iTrent at Stafford & Rural Homes
Stafford and Rural Homes (SARH) is in the middle of implementing MHR’s cloud-based iTrent software in order to provide a single platform for the HR and payroll operations of its 200 employees. The new HR system is scheduled to be live by April 2019. Investing in iTrent is part of a wider SARH digital transformation…
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