Kirona has won a £195,000 contract with Plus Dane Group for a mobile workforce, dynamic scheduling and workflow solution. The first phase of the project involves 130 of Plus Dane’s 570 field-based workers using the Kirona application on their mobile devices for responsive repairs, planned maintenance and gas servicing. The second phase will cover the…
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Morrison mobile with 1st Touch, Motorola & Ryzex
Repairs and maintenance service provider Morrison has signed a contract with Ryzex for a new semi-rugged mobile device management solution, in partnership with 1st Touch and Motorola. The new contract will see Ryzex provide Morrison’s front-line staff with 1,200 Motorola ES400 handsets running 1st Touch’s mobile working software, and is expected to reduce Morrison’s mobile…
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Top five mobile trends in housing
A recent survey carried out by 1st Touch and Ryzex highlights the key mobile device trends in housing and local government, covering rates for mobile working adoption, the need for at least semi-rugged devices, choosing air-time providers and replacement cycles for damaged devices. 67 per cent of the survey respondents, spanning UK social housing and…
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Your Homes to save £1.1m with NDL
Your Homes Newcastle, an ALMO for Newcastle City Council, is using NDL for its first mobile working project, starting with 100 employees who run its concierge services. This is part of a wider plan by Your Homes to introduce mobile working across all of its operations. The concierge services of the first housing blocks will…
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Tablet computers vs. paper processing
Paper-based processes for surveying property conditions have been used for years. Of course, during this period some surveys have moved over to electronic data capture, but with varying degrees of success. One of the key factors that can limit the effectiveness of electronic data capture in the field is the accompanying hardware’s ability to capture…
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Consilium keeps Midland Heart in good repair
Midland Heart is spending just under £490,000 on a new scheduling system for maintenance and repairs as part of a five-year contract with Consilium. Midland Heart’s newly-created in-house maintenance team will use the TotalRepairs, TotalView and E-Traders systems from Consilium integrated with additional software from Xmbrace for dynamic scheduling and Matrix Telematics for vehicle tracking….
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