Prior to coronavirus, many housing providers were already rethinking their communications and telephony services to increase efficiency, promote ‘cloud first’, offer flexible working arrangements, save costs, and reduce complexity. The question that I constantly heard was, “Why do we need these large office-based telephony systems that cost a fortune to manage and maintain?” Unified communications…
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Infrastructure
Low-code – Reaching that extra 20 per cent
A recent survey from Gartner suggests that by 2024 low-code software development will be responsible for over 65 per cent of application activity across all sectors. Low-code is a visual approach to developing software, which aims to automate every step of the application lifecycle, enabling the rapid delivery of a variety of solutions. Our developers…
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Fire safety technology – Coming to a server near you…
This issue of Housing Technology has several articles and interviews on how technology is being used to improve fire safety. While fire safety and its associated technologies have historically been more of an area for housing providers’ facilities managers than their IT staff, Housing Technology expects that IT departments will soon be more involved in…
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Arches Housing’s business continuity with Incline IT’s cloud
Working in partnership with Incline IT, Arches Housing has successfully completed the migration of its on-premise servers to the public cloud. Seamus Harkins, data services manager, Arches Housing, said, “At 30-strong, we are a small team with big ambitions to develop 400 new homes across our region by 2028. Much of the funding for this…
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Connected tenants & connected homes
Housing Technology interviewed representatives from Aareon, AdaptEco, Civica, Hyperoptic and Insite Energy about the alignment of omni-channel communications with smart/IoT-enabled homes to improve tenants’ lives while helping housing providers’ operational performance. What should housing providers do for better communications and more connected tenants? Aareon UK’s head of digital, Tina Kennedy, said, “The number-one priority is…
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Spotlight on CertOn
CertOn is a multi-award-winning software company launched last year, founded from many years’ experience in the new-build property sector around the issuing of certificates and manuals. Our big idea was to be able to instantly find any important property document at any location in a building. CertOn centralises work outputs, enabling tradespeople and end-users to…
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