Public cloud is gaining traction with more housing-sector deployments each year, but potential cloud customers have the difficulty of justifying the costs and risks of moving from their existing on-premise infrastructures. Private-cloud IT infrastructure takes significant time, risk and cost to deliver, and over time will have received many upgrades through software and hardware improvements…
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Infrastructure
Is bad data affecting your performance?
Imagine living in a house without solid foundations – you wouldn’t consider it, would you? Yet that’s exactly what you’re doing when you are managing your tenants with poor quality data. Good quality data is the foundation to success A recent data health check for a mid-sized housing provider, undertaken by Sagacity Solutions in partnership…
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Is EDRM your best corporate insurance policy?
Having worked in the housing sector for over 20 years, it’s safe to say that housing providers are no longer questioning the business case for business transformation but have moved onto the more pertinent question of ‘how do we do it?’. Whatever stage of this transformation journey you are on, your records and their security,…
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iOpt wins Places for People’s start-up challenge
iOpt was the only Scottish company to win a recent global competition by Places for People to find companies with innovative housing-related technologies. Approximately 160 companies from around the world entered the competition to join the housing provider’s Innovation Lab programme, the aim of which is to transform the performance of Places for People’s property…
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Alertacall launches IoT sensors
Alertacall has developed an IoT-based device to monitor temperature and humidity in individual properties, giving housing providers automated early alerts to signs of fuel poverty and unhealthy living conditions. Running on five-year batteries and operating without the need for a mains connection or wi-fi, Alertacall’s Envosense device records data every hour and uploads it to…
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Grand Union’s £1m Castleton infrastructure deal
Castleton Technology has embarked on four-year managed service project at Grand Union Housing Group. The project is valued at around £1 million, with the initial cloud and unified communications implementation expected to be completed by August 2019. Castleton’s multi-cloud approach for the housing provider includes an ‘edge’ systems refresh, private-cloud hosting in Castleton’s ‘tier four’…
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