Viridian Housing is using Auriga Consulting’s DataACL services to ensure the continued protection of its tenant data and generate evidence that this duty of care had been performed. The dual phase project includes security gap analysis and a data management and landscaping programme, allowing the housing provider to perform systematic data capture and classification. Over…
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Infrastructure
Straight-through processing or mind the gap?
With most housing providers having a diverse selection of business applications running across their various operations, particularly when they have a ‘best of breed’ approach to the adoption of new technologies, Housing Technology interviewed a number of experts on how straight-through processing could improve housing providers’ operations and services to tenants. For many housing providers,…
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Cloud computing in Housing
As cloud computing finally starts to become mainstream within the UK social housing sector, Kevin Doran, chief technology officer at Sovereign Business Integration Group, outlines some of the key considerations to contemplate when appraising the options for IT service delivery. It seems everyone has their own idea of what cloud computing means, so for the…
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Parabola researches SharePoint in housing
Parabola Software has completed a research project covering how housing providers are using Microsoft SharePoint. The research found that 60 per cent of the housing providers surveyed were already using SharePoint, with it being most commonly used as an intranet and for supporting knowledge bases, staff directories, internal collaboration and automated forms and workflows. The…
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Housing Technology 2014: Simon Weston OBE and George Clarke – architect & tv presenter to give keynote presentations
Housing Technology is delighted to announce that Simon Weston OBE and George Clarke will be giving the keynote presentations at the Housing Technology 2014 conference and executive forum on 26-27 February 2014. George Clarke, architect & tv presenter George is the presenter of several very successful series for television, including Channel 4’s Restoration Man and…
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Counting down to April 2014
As covered in more detail in the Windows XP article, Microsoft will cease to support Windows XP and Office 2003 from April 2014, arguably making it the most major software expiry event of the decade, so how prepared are you? Without updates, the Windows XP operating system and everything connected to it will rapidly become…
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