Orchard has won a multi-million pound managed services contract with the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE). The contract is part of a wider ‘IT Futures’ project for NIHE, including migrating its Orchard housing management system and other business applications to IT Assist, the Northern Ireland government’s shared IT services organisation. As part of the new…
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Housing Management
A single IT platform or best-of-breed?
Housing Technology interviewed Itica’s director, Neville Brown, on the merits of best-of-breed applications vs. enterprise resource planning (ERP) software in social housing. What’s the background to the single platform vs. best-of-breed debate? The housing sector is undergoing significant change at a time when the options for delivering systems are increasing, therefore it’s right that housing…
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Can you innovate backwards?
When we talk about innovation in social housing, we always assume it means doing or creating something new to address something going forward, such as addressing the status quo to make the future better. What if we could innovate to address legacy issues, removing the need to create a date in the future where everything…
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Chelmsford council gets OmniLedger for homelessness
Chelmsford City Council is now using OmniLedger’s Pyramid housing management system to help with homelessness and temporary accommodation. Dianne Gable, project manager, Chelmsford City Council, said, “In the past, our housing service recorded the data for properties and tenancies in different locations. As a consequence of this approach and the fast turnover of our tenancies…
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Edge value – How to achieve BoBSVoT…
The premise of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems is simple; by integrating all of an organisation’s processes and data into a single platform, efficiency, effectiveness and security can all be increased while lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO). To further ‘acronymise’, in housing providers’ IT departments this is often conflated with achieving a single…
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How humans, Alexa and robots can improve lives
If somebody said to you five years ago, that artificial intelligence (AI) would now be making inroads into the housing sector, would you have believed it or simply dismissed it? Looking at AI from a more general perspective, at the turn of the millennium, I wonder how many people truly conceived it as being possible…
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