When reviewing which software to buy for a housing provider, much of the required functionality, such as asset management, HR, rent collection and so on, is found in traditional ERPs. If you wanted to make a snap purchasing decision, an ERP system will typically fulfil a housing provider’s basic needs. For the first few weeks…
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Cyber awareness in housing
At a recent cyber-awareness event, experts from the National Cyber Crime Unit (part of GCHQ) said that the UK was seen as a low risk, high reward environment for cyber attackers, that the majority of crimes are now cyber dependent or had a cyber angle, and that there needs to be a seismic shift in…
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A single IT platform or best-of-breed?
Housing Technology interviewed Itica’s director, Neville Brown, on the merits of best-of-breed applications vs. enterprise resource planning (ERP) software in social housing. What’s the background to the single platform vs. best-of-breed debate? The housing sector is undergoing significant change at a time when the options for delivering systems are increasing, therefore it’s right that housing…
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Is text messaging right for you?
Ofcom reported in 2017 that 94 per cent of adults in the UK now own or use a mobile phone. Text messaging therefore presents housing providers with a powerful tool to improve the quality of their communications with tenants. OmniLedger’s sales and marketing executive, Eric Lau, explores the implications involved with adopting intelligent text messaging…
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Asset management for smaller RSLs
If you’re an asset manager, you’re probably consistently having to do more and with less, just like many of your colleagues in other areas of your operations. The situation is compounded further in smaller housing providers where every member of your team has to ‘wear a different hat’ every day and juggle different responsibilities –…
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Can you innovate backwards?
When we talk about innovation in social housing, we always assume it means doing or creating something new to address something going forward, such as addressing the status quo to make the future better. What if we could innovate to address legacy issues, removing the need to create a date in the future where everything…
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