Housing managers often face a costly and time-consuming task when sharing licensed mapping data with their contractors. Now, geographical web services can help keep the process both quick and legal. Housing providers have contracts with all manner of suppliers including grounds maintenance firms, architects, surveyors, engineers, planners and environmental consultants, and geographic information is an…
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Ahead in the Cloud
Organisations across both public and private sectors are increasingly leveraging cloud-based services as an alternative IT delivery model, attracted by their rich potential for technical, financial and operational advantage. The enterprise-class, on-demand, utility-based platform that characterises today’s cloud-based or managed services offering is indeed a compelling proposition; it is setting new standards of affordability, accessibility,…
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Unified comms for better customer service
Housing providers of all sizes are increasingly turning to unified communications (UC) to adopt new ways to communicate with tenants and residents while also increasing employee flexibility. One of the main reasons for implementing UC is because customers expect to reach their housing providers via a wide range of integrated communication services. This is not…
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Retaining your core IT
While most hardware and software vendors will argue that core, business-critical systems should undergo regular replacement and upgrades, organisations across the housing sector should be considering exactly what outcomes are achieved by such an approach. Does core system renewal improve overall business performance, add extra return on investment or improve business processes? All too often,…
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Information overload – making your data work for you
With ever-increasing demands for varying types of data, combined with the ease with which we can collect and store it, many organisations are overwhelmed by the volume of information they hold and the manner in which they hold it. There are many extremely powerful software applications used in the housing sector but the common weakness…
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Easing the move to Component Accounting
The deadline for IFRS compliance may still be several years away for housing providers, but there is a clear requirement to begin to meet the demands of SoRP 2008 by the end of this financial year. Yet organisations are only now facing up to the enormity of the challenge, from the implications of component accounting…
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