Political and economic uncertainty has contributed to the UK social housing sector undergoing significant consolidation during recent years. A large number of mergers and acquisitions have taken place in an attempt to save costs and create efficiencies. A great deal has already been written about the role that IT plays in housing M&As. The main…
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Community + Collaboration > Crisis
Back in early March, it took a team of Microsoft developers just 48 hours to create the Microsoft Crisis Communications app. This was (and still is) a completely free app, bringing together elements of Power Apps, Power Automate, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint, to allow businesses and their employees to rapidly and effectively communicate as the…
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Cyber security beyond Covid-19: 206 days & counting…
Depending on which reports you read, the average time it takes to detect an intruder in your network after a compromise is 206 days… Getting a sense of the overall threat landscape is rarely straightforward. The nature of cyber crime is dynamic; tactics and techniques fall in and out of vogue as criminals choose the…
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Holistic risk management
With sector-wide shifts in the way housing providers manage risk, integrated and innovative technology will be vital in helping them to adapt to new demands, keep track of data and prevent duplication or errors. For large-scale projects, organisations can struggle to manage large quantities of data. A surprising number of organisations are still reliant on…
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We’re in this together…
What a very strange world we are living in right now. As I type this, I am sitting opposite my son who is doing his school work online, I have a daughter upstairs who is now not sitting her GCSEs and is missing her friends and I have a wife who is a frontline medical…
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What is GIS and why use it?
At the Housing Technology 2020 conference at the beginning of March, delegates learnt more about GIS and how one housing provider, Orbit, was using this technology to make huge savings of £11 million. This article is an abridged version of Cadcorp and Orbit’s presentation at Housing Technology 2020. What is GIS? Any data with a…
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