Neighbourhub, a partnership between Visualmetrics and Places for People, has signed a three year agreement with Rhondda Housing Association to deliver enhanced neighbourhood analysis and drive housing service delivery. Rhondda Housing will follow Neighbourhub’s five-step approach: The breakdown of existing housing stock groupings, and the creation of focused neighbourhood units. In-year and on-going monitoring of…
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Infrastructure
Gloucester City Homes selects Exponential-e to boost support for tenants
Exponential-e has been selected by Gloucester City Homes to deliver cloud and networking services to support its move towards becoming a ‘digital-first’ organisation. Exponential-e will use its 100-gig Ethernet network to deliver a virtual desktop infrastructure that gives the housing provider’s employees access to a persistent, personal desktop from any device or location. Since all…
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Grenfell Housing’s cloud desktops from WorkPlaceLive
Following its decision to modernise and improve the reliability of its IT infrastructure and enable all staff to work remotely, Grenfell Housing & Training has implemented cloud-based desktops from WorkPlaceLive, a preferred supplier for the National Council for Voluntary Organisations and a specialist in providing cloud-based services for non-profit organisations. Outsourcing the IT systems to…
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Family Mosaic focuses on Microsoft licensing with Phoenix Software
Phoenix Software has helped Family Mosaic to reduce its Microsoft licensing costs by 20 per cent, despite significant changes to Microsoft’s licensing arrangements for housing providers. Like most housing providers, Family Mosaic is a heavy user of Microsoft software for the day-to-day running of its business, partly because housing providers used to qualify for discounts…
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Delta-ee’s view of IoT in housing
A recent report from research consultancy Delta-ee has identified four battles shaping the future of the Internet of Things (IoT) in the housing sector. The ‘connected home’ market is expected to be shaped by: What becomes the reference radio and communication protocol; The different ways to make devices interact with each other in the absence…
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Streamlined housing – Process automation with IT
Housing Technology interviewed IT experts from 1st Touch, Civica, Horton Housing Association, New Charter Group and Town & Country Housing Group about how housing providers can use technology to automate some of their key processes, for both business improvements and cost-savings as well as to help tenants. Where to start? Rather than considering the details…
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