‘Digital inclusion’ pilot projects are being run in St Helens and North Liverpool to provide residents with free wireless broadband in their homes. The Advanced Internet Methods and Emergent Systems (AIMES) Centre, part of the University of Liverpool, has developed the Community Grid in conjunction with Proxim Wireless and OciusB2, as part of a digital…
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Smart strategy for Wulvern
Crewe-based Wulvern Housing Association has moved from ad-hoc, ‘home-grown’ tactics for data storage and security to an automated and streamlined long-term strategy for information back-up with Smartways Technology. Wulvern previously relied on relatively low-security back-up tapes at its main offices, with the onus on individuals to back up remote PCs on a daily basis. Security…
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Has IT lost the business battle?
For years the IT department fought for the chance to demonstrate the business value of technology innovation. Yet after a flurry of CIO appointments in the late 1990s, housing associations appear to have largely changed their view about technology as a business enabler and could therefore be in danger of considering it as little more…
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Weaver Vale opts for Citrix thin clients
Weaver Vale Housing Trust, one of Cheshire’s largest social landlords, has implemented thin-client services from Citrix to its 350 staff spread across the region. The thin-client strategy is intended to make it easier and faster for Weaver Vale’s IT team to deliver software and the associated updates, while increasing the working life of older PCs….
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£750,000 Ian Williams deal for MET
Property services specialist Ian Williams has signed a three-year, online services contract with Managed Enterprise Technologies for £750,000. Ian Williams, which looks after the maintenance and servicing of buildings for housing associations and councils, relies on its IT infrastructure for everything from logging calls and booking repairs, to scheduling planned works and communicating with operatives…
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Riverside helpdesk
Riverside Group has implemented helpdesk software from House-on-the-Hill to support its 2400 staff. Following its 2006 merger with English Churches Housing Group, Riverside is one of the UK’s largest housing associations with more than 50,000 properties for rent and shared ownership. The group’s IT group has 40 staff, half of whom work on the IT…
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