At the Housing Technology 2020 conference in March (just before the lockdown began), Adra’s Alun Hughes and Geraint Vernon described their journey to a successful in-house business application development, in the belief that sharing their experience would be of benefit to other housing providers. Adra is a social housing provider in North Wales. We were…
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Infrastructure
Watford Community Housing’s digital journey during lockdown
Three years ago, Watford Community Housing started a significant digital transformation programme to bring our service offerings and infrastructure up to modern standards, and also to lay the foundations for future development and innovation. This required a fundamental re-evaluation of the way our IT function operated, changing its relationship with both the business and external…
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Delivering transformation during lockdown
Housing Plus Group has been transforming its technology infrastructure to improve accessibility to services while increasing application performance and availability. The changes were necessary to overcome technology limitations that historically meant HPG’s IT service couldn’t effectively support the wider business in the delivery of its objectives and services. We initiated managed service agreements from October…
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The nexus of fire safety, IoT & artificial intelligence
The disparities between Approved Document B (Fire Safety) volume 1 and the recent revision of Part 6 of BS 5839 presents housing providers with varying guidelines on the minimum requirement of fire safety provisions their property portfolio should currently specify. Ian Ballinger, head of projects and certification at FireAngel, shares his advice on why housing…
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Getting web-ready for future crises
All organisations, especially those in the housing sector, need to be nimble in times of crisis. That’s never been more apparent than since the start of this year. When people want to engage with housing services, their first port of call is usually the website. It’s the same for other critical services too. When users…
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Effective IT risk management in housing
For many people, the first things that come to mind when thinking about IT risk are cyber security, disaster recovery and GDPR. However, there are many more areas to consider to effectively predict and mitigate issues relating to technology and data security. David Edge, solutions manager at Central Networks and Technologies, shares his thoughts on…
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