Regenda Group has implemented Housing Insight’s PanConnect Mobile software so that its staff can integrate fully with Regenda’s Orchard housing management system and conduct day-to-day activities in the field without needing to access multiple systems. The first project will see Regenda’s housing team accessing and updating back-office data in real time using PanConnect Forms. Jade…
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Mobile Working
Kingdom Housing’s new reality with DtL Creative & XMReality
Kingdom Housing is the first to use new augmented reality (AR) technology to help fix tenants’ routine repairs without needing to set foot in their homes, through a partnership between DtL Creative and Swedish-based XMReality. The technology allows the housing provider’s operatives to be virtually present in a tenant’s home, to see the issue in…
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Community + Collaboration > Crisis
Back in early March, it took a team of Microsoft developers just 48 hours to create the Microsoft Crisis Communications app. This was (and still is) a completely free app, bringing together elements of Power Apps, Power Automate, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint, to allow businesses and their employees to rapidly and effectively communicate as the…
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Accelerating remote working in exceptional circumstances
In late February 2020, things began to change very quickly for us due to the onset of coronavirus. CHP already had plans to implement remote working for some of its customer-facing teams, but not for at least six months – that all changed in the space of a week! After appraising the situation, we sought…
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Business continuity and mobile working
Mobile working has been in the consciousness of most housing providers for some time but has often taken a back seat to grass roots, community initiatives instead. In the past few weeks, these priorities have been turned on their heads as our physical world has given way to a digital one almost overnight. The necessity…
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Fortem offers On My Way tracking
Fortem’s On My Way system, developed in-house, allows residents to track their tradespeople right to their door and give them better indications of when they will be arriving. On My Way combines real-time data received through Fortem’s Castleton Maintain software, Totalmobile and Juce vehicle tracking software. The system also gives housing providers’ call centres another…
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