With digital transformation projects of all sizes, complexity and ambition being considered or undertaken by housing providers at the moment (see elsewhere in this issue), Housing Technology interviewed senior executives from Appello, Community Fibre, Comparex and Northgate Public Services around the theme of ‘digital transformation – sticking plaster or in-depth surgery?’. Does digital transformation require…
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Infrastructure
Hitachi gains G-Cloud accreditation
Hitachi Solutions has announced that it is now part of the government’s G-Cloud10 procurement framework. G-Cloud10 is a government-backed resource to allow housing providers and public-sector organisations to find pre-approved digital suppliers quickly and easily. Ciara McMillan, industry director for housing, Hitachi Solutions, said, “Traditional procurement methods can often be a slow and ineffective way…
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Plus Dane’s HMS tender with Skype
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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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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