Chris McLaughlin, CEO of housing management software provider MIS-AMS, looks at how a large percentage of all housing mergers’ synergies are dependent directly on IT and often it’s the IT integration process that drives the merger timetable. Should you ‘adopt’ or ‘align’ your IT systems, and how can you make merging less painful and with…
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Infrastructure
The ‘digital by default’ infrastructure of the future
For a digital inclusion programme to succeed, it’s imperative to first understand that demand is linked to supply – put simply, the priority must be the provision and availability of digital infrastructure, which will form the backbone of the programme. Unfortunately, many housing providers don’t realise that they have the power to affect what digital…
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Sunrise streamlines Radian’s IT service management
Radian Group has completed the implementation of new IT service management software from Sunrise Software. Radian Group was formed in 2012 following the merger of three housing providers. Ian Butcher, IT operations manager, Radian Group said, “Our service management system was fine when it was bought for one of the housing providers. It was a…
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Dell network at Newport City Homes
Newport City Homes has completed the implementation of a new network (wired and wireless) from Dell, replacing its previous end-of-life network and reflecting its need to handle higher volumes of data. Owen Barrett, information systems manager, Newport City Homes, said, “If the wireless network went down, we had to contact our supplier and wait for…
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Bath Group reports on cloud usage in housing
The Bath Group, whose members comprise housing providers with more than 10,000 properties, has reported the results of its survey covering the use of cloud-based services by its members. Almost half (47 per cent) of the survey’s respondents said that cloud technologies hadn’t reduced their costs and only 27 per cent thought that cloud services…
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Tipping the scales towards visual surveillance
Weighing up costs versus benefits is an established commercial balancing act that helps to decide the uptake of new products, services and technology across all industries. It’s particularly relevant to CCTV because, until now, the balance for most organisations has seen the costs outweigh the benefits. There are a multitude of reasons for this. But,…
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