Solihull Community Housing has upgraded its Capita housing management solution to the software provider’s integrated OPEN suite. Having previously been using Capita’s housing management software as well as OPENContractor, SCH identified a range of efficiency and service improvement opportunities that it could achieve by joining all services up via a single IT platform. As a…
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Housing Management
A digital platform for today’s housing sector
Civica’s executive director for housing and asset management, Jeff Hewitt, looks at future housing trends and discusses the evolution of Civica’s housing portfolio for tenants. What are your views on the future of digital in social housing today? Have you seen any particular trends? Advances in technology and automation, the proliferation of devices and communications…
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Rooftop Housing opts for Aareon HMS
Aareon’s QL software has been chosen by Rooftop Housing Group as its new housing management system, with support from Alysium Consulting. Following an internal review, Rooftop Housing engaged Alysium Consulting to help them during the process of specifying requirements and procurement, managed through a ‘competitive dialogue’ route. Lesley Buckels, lead consultant, Alysium Consulting, said, “This…
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Boardroom perspectives – Moat
Housing Technology interviewed Moat’s chief executive, Elizabeth Austerberry, about IT, building developments, mergers, and the housing provider’s plans for the future. What were your previous experiences of housing associations before Moat? My background is in finance and consultancy so I have a lot of experience of working with all types of property companies and also…
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Data – From connections to projections
Data: it’s the stuff of IT. We hear about it all the time. Databases, datasticks, data lakes, data quality, data mining, data analytics. Just as with IT and iPads, so the consumerisation of data has led to everyone having an apparently expert opinion on what it is, what it’s for, what’s wrong with it and…
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Sovereign’s enterprise GIS
Geographic Information System (GIS) technology has been transforming how we do things here at Sovereign Housing over the past four years, bringing data to life and influencing our future strategy as well as our day-to-day work. Following a recent merger with Spectrum Housing Group, we’re now one of the largest housing providers in the country…
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