During the merger in July 2017 of Two Castles Housing and Derwent & Solway Housing, the newly-formed Castles and Coasts Housing Association used Manifest Software’s Universal Adaptor during the migration and merging of data between the two organisations’ housing management systems. Castles and Coasts reported that by using the Universal Adaptor, it was possible to…
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Housing Management
Jumping the fence – From gamekeeper to poacher
Housing Technology interviewed Keith Saunders, MIS-AMS’ new leader of customer support after, as gamekeeper turned poacher, he joined the software supplier in April 2017 after 30 years of working in-house at different housing providers. Have you always been interested in IT? Like a lot of people, I fell into IT almost by accident. Until April…
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Has the dawn of IoT finally broken?
The internet of things (IoT) and its relationship with social housing has been labelled by some people as “a technology looking for an application”. I have been looking at IoT and engaging with the sector for over four years now, educating, informing and learning with the sector on how IoT can be used for the…
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Merging? Don’t leave your data up to IT
If you have just started on the path or already crossed the bridge to merge, then your data may be at risk. There are lots of critical and important activities in the merging process ranging from the companies’ legal structures and senior management appointments to extensive dialogue with customers, lenders and suppliers, and much more…
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Civica Cx at South Lakes Housing
South Lakes Housing has completed the implementation of a broad suite of Civica software, including Cx for CRM and housing management and Keystone for asset management. When South Lakes Housing (SLH) took over management of more than 3,000 homes from South Lakeland District Council, it promised to bring all of them up to the Decent…
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Faster and cheaper by going IT alone
Paradigm is one of the leading housing providers in the South East of England, managing over 14,000 homes across 33 UK local authorities. When we started over 20 years ago, we already knew that we would have to build a number of systems in-house because, as the first large-scale voluntary transfer (LSVT) in the country,…
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