Newark and Sherwood Homes is using M-Files to completely revamp how it stores, searches and retrieves all of its property and tenancy information. By shifting away from traditional folder structures and using metadata instead, NSH’s staff can now quickly and easily find, manage and share information across the organisation by simply describing what a document…
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Infrastructure
Cadcorp’s hosted mapping streamlines data sharing for Citizen Housing
Citizen Housing has sped up its procurement process by sourcing web mapping software from Cadcorp though the G-Cloud framework, avoiding a lengthy tender process. Citizen selected Cadcorp SIS WebMap for presenting and interrogating spatial data. This is accessed via a browser and includes a mobile-tuned interface. It’s cloud hosted on Microsoft Azure with the geospatial…
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Ground-breaking solutions with Office 365
Office 365 as a sector-specific solution As the adoption of Microsoft Office 365 powers ahead in the housing sector and most social housing providers have completed their migrations of email to the cloud, many are now embarking on true digital transformation via the ground-breaking Office 365 Power Platform. The Office 365 journey has been an…
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Mobile-first to the cloud
Two of the most-discussed trends in social housing IT over the past few years have been: The migration of systems from on-premise to the cloud; Mobile-first approaches to tenant communications. More housing providers are asking whether it’s possible to scale their migration to the cloud, and to start with front-end services while back-end services remain…
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Gentoo turns to The Robot Exchange for RPA
Gentoo is now in its first phase of a programme to use robotic process automation (RPA) to minimise the need for human intervention in manual, repetitive and error-prone tasks, based on technology from The Robot Exchange. Nigel Wilson, CEO, Gentoo Group, said, “The initial automation was a non-customer facing administration task. By trialling the technology…
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CertOn’s online portal for housing documents
New technology start-up CertOn is using a combination of QR codes, an app and online portal to safeguard and give immediate access to any important property-related documents. At the Electrical Industry Awards in 2019, CertOn won awards for ‘best electrical app’ and ‘commercial product of the year, as well as the ‘top product award’ from…
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