Is anything more important than stopping defects from escaping into live operations and disrupting users? In almost half of organisations, it seems that reducing the costs of development, testing and bug-fixing are more important. This insight came from a 2023 survey Acutest commissioned from IDC/ Foundry. Of the 109 organisations surveyed across various business sectors…
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Housing Management
The next generation of housing IT
Housing Technology’s editorial team is in the middle of researching the next generation of IT providers for our sector, the results of which will be published in our special Proptechs & Housing IT Start-ups 2024/25 report in July. If you’re using or investigating innovative software options from smaller technology start-ups and/or proptechs, we’d love to…
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Cost-effective systems integration
At a time when housing providers are struggling to make every penny count, some IT teams are considering creating new in-house systems integration teams. Manifest Software Solutions prides itself on being the leading independent provider of systems integration in social housing and challenges the lack of market testing around decisions to do-it-yourself, decisions that often…
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Technology dilemma – In-house vs. external IT development
Housing Technology interviewed housing and software development experts from Asprey Solutions, FLS – Fast Lean Smart, Infinity Group, Totalmobile and Voicescape about the respective merits of in-house software development and external IT development. How do you choose? Totalmobile’s managing director for property & facilities management, David Webb, said, “The main criteria for determining in-house development…
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L&Q’s Bizapps team
L&Q won the gold award in the IT team of the year category of the inaugural Housing Technology 2024 awards. Andrew Makinson, head of delivery for business applications at L&Q outlines more about the housing provider’s prize-winning team. You’d be hard pushed to find a tougher operating environment than the one facing the housing sector….
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D. I. Why?
To fully understand the pros and cons of building in-house versus commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software, you need to have been around for a while, so please bear with me while I tell you a story… I started out in 1997 as a software engineer for one of the top housing management system vendors, specialising in…
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