ROCC, developers of the widely-used Uniclass housing software, has announced a partnership with IoT supplier Purrmetrix. The partnership is expected to form the foundation for a series of smart-home solutions to monitor the environment and condition of housing providers’ properties using Purrmetrix’s low-cost IoT sensors, with the sensors automatically reporting temperature, humidity or carbon dioxide…
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Housing Management
Designer Software’s new housing software start-up
New technology start-up Designer Software has just entered the social housing sector with the launch of a new ‘web-native’ housing management platform for smaller housing providers. Designer Software has been founded by Ian Thompson as CEO and Craig Brock as COO, both previously with Kypera; together they led the creation of the first fully Microsoft…
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GDPR is here – What happens next?
After over a year of build-up, GDPR has now been in force for over three months. But the real journey for the housing sector is only just beginning, as Daniela Flores, in-house counsel and GDPR officer at Insite Energy, explains. The deadline of 25 May 2018 certainly created a sense of urgency, but the scope…
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Transforming smaller housing providers
There are many advantages to being small: you have more legroom on a plane; you tend to bump your head less often; and you’re more likely to be able to get a job as a jockey. When ‘small’ is applied to running a business, management are more likely to be involved in every aspect of…
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What is digital transformation?
I recently asked a housing client to tell me how they planned to define ‘digital transformation’ to their team. Somewhat unsurprisingly, the answer was along the lines of, “It’s about using IT to make improvements to services and systems”. After a pause, I went on to draw out so much more than this from their…
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Castleton gains Dumfries & Galloway Housing contract
Dumfries and Galloway Housing Partnership has appointed Castleton Technologies to support an extensive digital programme. The project involves migrating DGHP’s daily operations onto a private cloud, moving away from its current on-premise solutions, and a refresh of its desktop software. This contract is part of a wider transformation agenda which includes the procurement of a…
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