Are you comfortable that your IT policies are protecting your data? I would have started “you only have to pick-up a newspaper”, but that seems rather dated today. No matter how you get your news, whether via social media, online, television or radio, every day seems to bring a new data breach scandal. Here are…
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Infrastructure
CCTV – Reducing the risks you simply can’t see
Many years ago I was having lunch with a technology guru called Dr Alan Solomon (you can tell it was the 1990s because we were actually having lunch in a proper restaurant rather than sandwiches around a meeting room table). Between munching on a large plate of spare ribs washed down with quite a few…
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Housing mergers – IT adoption or IT alignment?
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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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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