In a change from the usual face-to-face ‘beauty parade’ of tender respondents, Plus Dane Housing recently used Skype for Business to run over 70 demonstrations online as part of its goal to choose a new housing management system, with the ultimate aim of reducing its 17 core business systems to just two. Jill Burns, head…
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Infrastructure
A week in the life of a housing IT consultant
Work is certainly varied for Jenny Shorter, a senior consultant at IT services firm Sovereign Business Integration Group, who revisits an atypical week at work. I’ve seen a great deal of change in the housing sector. Mostly, it now requires a far more commercially-minded approach than it did when I first joined the sector in…
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Salix Homes goes digital with ANS Group
Salix Homes has signed up cloud service provider ANS Group to improve its digital services, alongside pre-project research and assessment work carried out by Alysium Consulting. The project involves migrating Salix Homes’ everyday operations to Microsoft Azure, moving its on-premise CRM system to Microsoft Dynamics 365 and transferring all of its staff onto Office 365….
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Pinnacle in the cloud with Rackspace
Pinnacle Group has moved its communications and IT infrastructure to Rackspace’s cloud-based services. Pinnacle began using Rackspace’s services in 2015, with a private cloud covering 80 per cent of its core business applications. By last year, Pinnacle needed to revise its cloud strategy in line with changing business drivers. The service provider firstly wanted to…
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Aareon branches out into managed IT services
Aareon UK has launched a range of managed service options to helps its customers boost value for money and reduce the time taken for services to become fully operational. The new services remove the need for housing providers to tie up vital internal systems management and staff resources. Well-established in the housing sector with its…
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Vivid’s new CDW hosted infrastructure
CDW has completed the implementation of a completely new IT infrastructure, storage and DR platform for newly-created Vivid Housing. The formation of Vivid involved bringing together two Hampshire-based housing providers, First Wessex Housing and Sentinel Housing, each with similar aims but different systems and processes. First Wessex and Sentinel both had IT infrastructures that were…
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