Rugby Borough Council has launched a revamped digital repairs service for its 3,500 properties, built on a cloud-based platform from Totalmobile. The Totalmobile system will be used to schedule repairs more efficiently and allow faster responses to changes. Totalmobile’s Connect and Mobile solutions are part of a cloud-based platform which assigns repair tasks to the…
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Mobile Working
Then & now – 100 editions of Housing Technology
To celebrate our 100th edition, Housing Technology invited a few of our longest-standing contributors to share their views on how the technology and business landscape has changed over the past 15-20 years, the milestones along the way, and what they think the future holds. Our sincere thanks to Aidan Dunphy (Esuasive), Steve Dungworth (Golden Marzipan…
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Celebrating 17 years of technology in social housing
Housing Technology began at the end of 2007, with our first edition published in January 2008, and here we are now, 99 editions later with our 100th edition (in case you missed our subtle front cover). So much has changed since George Grant (prev. head of alliances at the National Housing Federation & IT business…
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The next generation of housing IT
Housing Technology’s editorial team is in the middle of researching the next generation of IT providers for our sector, the results of which will be published in our special Proptechs & Housing IT Start-ups 2024/25 report in July. If you’re using or investigating innovative software options from smaller technology start-ups and/or proptechs, we’d love to…
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Bring on the orchestra…
With more and more housing providers adopting technologies and processes such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotic process automation (RPA) and business process management (BPM), just waiting in the wings is process orchestration (a.k.a. event orchestration). At present, most housing providers’ automations are limited to a task level (tactical), whereas orchestration is the automation of linked…
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Plentific launches Planned Maintenance
Plentific has added a new Planned Maintenance solution to its existing property management platform, with the aim of enabling housing providers to become more proactive and responsive in their planned and cyclical maintenance activities. Plentific said that users of its Planned Maintenance solution could expect to reduce the cost of a work order by 150…
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