The storage and usage of poor data can be life threatening when it comes social housing. Housing providers are responsible for vast amounts of both tenant and property management data, and the struggle to keep this up-to-date is proving too much for the majority of the sector. The Housing Ombudsman’s ‘Spotlight on: Knowledge & Information…
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Housing Management
Considerations for a stock condition survey
Since the introduction of systems and methodologies for cost- and condition-forecasting around 25 years ago, the amount of data available to housing providers, uses for it and collection methods have increased rapidly. Unfortunately, the improper use of data is also on the increase. It is therefore useful to examine how stock condition surveys and the…
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Remain in light (part two) – Dark data
In the second part of a two-part article (orig. planned as a single feature), Housing Technology quizzed Askporter and Howell Technology Group about dark data and how and why housing providers collect, process and store it yet don’t (or can’t) use dark data for insights or decision-making. What is dark data? Askporter’s head of business…
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Celebrating 17 years of technology in social housing
Housing Technology began at the end of 2007, with our first edition published in January 2008, and here we are now, 99 editions later with our 100th edition (in case you missed our subtle front cover). So much has changed since George Grant (prev. head of alliances at the National Housing Federation & IT business…
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Reshuffling the shadow IT cabinet
Please excuse the pun in the title of this piece, which may well refer to a different shadow cabinet by time of publication… The term ‘shadow IT’ has been around for a couple of decades – it’s an interesting concept, usually seen as a problem by IT teams, but perhaps worthy of closer examination. In…
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Remain in light (part one) – Shadow IT
In the first part of a two-part article (orig. planned as a single feature), Housing Technology asked Howell Technology Group and Infinity Group about housing providers’ use of shadow IT (i.e. the unsanctioned use of software/web services, usually without IT teams’ knowledge),and whether its’s a significant problem, an inconvenience or a great way of moving…
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