ForViva’s investment in a Dell XC hyper-converged Nutanix platform supplied and supported by Quadris has been a key enabler of their significant recent growth and transformed application performance. Customer profile Established in June 2015, ForViva has brought together City West Housing Trust, Villages Housing Association and construction company ForWorks under a group structure. The group…
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Faster and cheaper by going IT alone
Paradigm is one of the leading housing providers in the South East of England, managing over 14,000 homes across 33 UK local authorities. When we started over 20 years ago, we already knew that we would have to build a number of systems in-house because, as the first large-scale voluntary transfer (LSVT) in the country,…
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Investing in new technology?
Rooftop Housing’s investment in a technologically-innovative, customer-focused IT system proved to be the perfect opportunity to review procurement best practice, before negotiations had even begun. Having been instructed to advise them on their contract with their IT supplier, we started the process by considering which key issues needed to be resolved before the contract discussions…
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Monitoring the potential of assisted living
In an article earlier this year, England’s chief nursing officer, Professor Jane Cummings, wrote about the move from self-care to supported self-care. Self-care can mean a variety of things to different people of varying ages and with disparate needs and challenges, whether you are monitoring your fitness and diet or, at the other end of…
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Making better use of data – It starts with design
As new technology keeps flooding into the housing sector and new sources of data emerge, imaginative ways to put them to good use are surfacing on a daily basis. You only have to read the pages of Housing Technology to see what’s possible. And it’s also clear that the way in which housing providers are…
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Suited to your needs
Planned maintenance systems have been used by many of the largest housing providers in the UK for over 20 years but have been left out by the smaller ones. Cost has been the main barrier in the past for these smaller housing providers, but we believe that future cloud-based systems will change this and allow…
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