In the lead up to Housing Technology’s 2019 conference and executive forum, Aareon’s head of business development, Ian Lockwood, discussed some of the conference’s main themes and how they affect housing providers’ technology plans. Going back to basics, how should housing providers use their ‘traditional’ IT applications and infrastructure better and more innovatively? IT systems…
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Loving your data
It’s estimated that the total amount of data in the world doubles every two years and that by 2020, the amount of information in existence will be 45 zettabytes – that’s 45 trillion gigabytes. To put that another way, if all of that information was stored on 128Gb iPads, you would need to build a…
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Droning on in housing…
Drones have taken off (excuse the pun) in a big way over the past couple of years. Once the preserve of the military, drones (or small unmanned aircraft [SUA]) are now used in a wide range of markets, from the aerial surveillance of crops and search and rescue operations to the inspection of wind turbines…
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What will a digital housing provider look like?
‘Change… then more change’ seems to be the housing regulator’s mantra; there are a slew of new initiatives each year, but do they deliver any more homes? It’s interesting to study the sector’s future in this context, with some digital technologies already helping housing providers to meet demands and others still over the horizon. But…
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Best-of-breed 1, ERP 0…
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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