Northgate Public Services has been sold by Cinven Private Equity to NEC Corporation for £475 million. Northgate’s customers include around 200 housing providers and 95 per cent of UK local authorities. NEC’s biometric scanning and facial recognition products will be integrated into some of Northgate’s core software platforms. NEC’s global network will also enable Northgate…
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Housing Management
Dual certification for fire and security
This article explains how Secured by Design, the national police crime prevention initiative, is working with companies to overcome the challenges of achieving dual certification for both fire and security at communal entrances to blocks of flats. Secured by Design (SBD) has announced that doors that are described as fire doors, or where fire performance…
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Aareon’s new Southampton office
Aareon has opened a new office in Southampton Science Park, making it one of three Aareon UK offices and cementing its merger with 1st Touch. Peter Birkett, CEO, The University of Southampton Science Park, said, “1st Touch originally came to the innovation centre at the Science Park in 2008. Since then, it has been very…
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Underpinning digital transformation in today’s housing sector
Ever since the government published its UK Digital Strategy report last year, housing providers have found themselves increasingly attuned to the digital needs of tenants. In the policy paper, a digital inclusion agenda calls for people in every part of society, irrespective of age, gender, physical ability, ethnicity, health conditions, or socio-economic status, to be…
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Interview – Optivo’s IT plans
Following the merger last year of AmicusHorizon and Viridian Housing to form Optivo, Housing Technology interviewed Jeanette Alfano, director of technology, and Jane Porter, chief operating officer, about Optivo’s IT plans. How does the merger affect your IT infrastructure? Jeanette Alfano: It dramatically affects it. Two separate infrastructures, one infrastructure sitting on-premise in a datacentre…
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Integration… The key to introducing new technologies
The technology revolution that has transformed the operating efficiency and productivity of social housing continues to make a significant difference. However, identifying which technologies will have the most positive impact is harder to predict. Nigel Rees, joint managing director of Aareon, believes that integration holds the key; here’s why… I’m always fascinated by how new…
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