Prior to coronavirus, many housing providers were already rethinking their communications and telephony services to increase efficiency, promote ‘cloud first’, offer flexible working arrangements, save costs, and reduce complexity. The question that I constantly heard was, “Why do we need these large office-based telephony systems that cost a fortune to manage and maintain?” Unified communications…
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Low-code – Reaching that extra 20 per cent
A recent survey from Gartner suggests that by 2024 low-code software development will be responsible for over 65 per cent of application activity across all sectors. Low-code is a visual approach to developing software, which aims to automate every step of the application lifecycle, enabling the rapid delivery of a variety of solutions. Our developers…
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Finance’s role in housing IT
Manningham Housing is a small and dynamic housing provider and we like to think that we punch above our weight – from an IT perspective, we want to be in the vanguard of embracing technologies not often used in the housing sector. Much of my focus during 2020 was negotiating a new financial facility for…
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100 per cent digital at Qlinker
Around three years ago, Qlinker was presented as the first digital housing provider in The Netherlands, with the experience of 100 years of social housing, yet also without the restrictions of 100 years of social housing. Qlinker’s lead architect, Marcel Vogel, explains the out-of-the-box thinking and innovation behind Qlinker and the successful letting of its…
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What’s your software really capable of?
Strategy. A word that rarely gets people excited. A word that can strike tedium into the hearts of the dullest of the grey-suited ones. And yet, not only is it essential, but there is absolutely no need for it to hit those drab low-points. We recently launched Link’s new three-year digital strategy, having examined the…
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Technology-enabled care comes of age
Tunstall Healthcare’s director, Zillah Moore, discusses the role of technology-enabled care services (TECS) in keeping vulnerable people connected to key stakeholders while living at home, including clinicians, housing providers and communities, particularly during the pandemic. Over the past decade, many technological innovations have become mainstream: millions of people use technology at home and on-the-go to…
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