Safepoint has partnered with What3Words to add the company’s brilliantly simple way to denote locations to its lone-worker app. What3words has divided up the world into a grid of 3m squares that can each be identified by three simple words. For example, Housing Technology’s headquarters is ///decent.salad.faster, while Safepoint’s offices can be found at ///calm.gives.comet….
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Mobile Working
Orchard buys InterNETalia for repairs and maintenance
Orchard has bought InterNETalia and its well-known AccuServ software to strengthen its end-to-end repairs and maintenance solutions for housing providers and contractors. The two companies described Orchard AccuServ Repairs & Maintenance as a single solution for recording, scheduling and managing repairs, emergency and planned work, voids and compliance jobs. It makes job and sub-contractor management…
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Unboxed unwraps faster housing repairs for Hackney Council
Hackney Council has streamlined the reporting and fixing of its 15,000 annual housing-related leaks by 35 per cent through a new microservices architecture and revamped user interface from Unboxed. The housing repairs service at Hackney Council had built up an infrastructure of legacy software platforms, including Civica’s Universal Housing, Servitor and Kirona’s DRS, all resulting…
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Bernicia signs up for Aareon’s Contractor Portal
Bernicia Group is now using Aareon’s 360 Contractor Portal to streamline its repairs operation, enforce compliance with contracts and policies and improve cost management. The portal supports Bernicia’s full repair and maintenance procurement cycle, including real-time order transfer, updates, variations, job completion and invoice management. Gary Hind, director of business transformation, Bernicia, said, “The 360…
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Safepoint launches lone worker app
East Anglian technology start-up Safepoint has just launched a new web and mobile platform to safeguard lone workers and help businesses ensure the safety of their staff. Safepoint began in November 2017 after it won first prize at Norwich’s ‘Sync the City’ hackathon. Safepoint was inspired by the story of Robert Geach, an engineer at…
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Women in housing IT
Housing Technology interviewed a group of women involved in housing IT from Adra, Civica, Community Housing, Northgate Public Services, PIMSS Data Systems, Prodo Digital and Rochdale Boroughwide Housing about their various roles in IT, any challenges they’ve faced as women in a traditionally fairly male-dominated sector and how more women can be encouraged to consider…
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