What’s around the corner? As we’ve said before, rent arrears will become a business-critical area for every housing provider with the introduction of universal credit. We expect to see new IT suppliers addressing the housing sector, particularly as local and central government departments restrain their IT budgets, and therefore look at social housing as a…
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Editor’s Notes: Now we are five
This issue marks the end of our fifth year of publishing Housing Technology. In that time, IT systems and services have really moved up the agenda for almost every housing provider and become a strategic item on most boardroom agendas. Over the same period, we have seen mobile working, virtualisation, GIS and mapping, telecare and…
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Editor’s Notes: Universal credit – will it or won’t it?
As is frequently reported, the government’s welfare reform bill and the introduction of universal credit to replace the current hotch-potch of separate benefit payments is not only an enormous change to the benefits system but also a hideously-complicated IT project, arguably the most ambitious of the past few decades, dwarfing past failed IT projects such…
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Editor’s Notes: Focus areas for 2013
Having just confirmed the date and venue for next year’s Housing Technology conference and executive forum (see page 29), we are working on the event’s high-level themes. While these are not an exhaustive list of what housing providers should be including in their IT strategies, we think they are useful pointers. Business and IT –…
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Editor’s Notes: Aareon buys 1st Touch
It has just been announced that Aareon AG, the parent company of Aareon UK, has bought mobile systems provider 1st Touch for an undisclosed sum. This isn’t entirely unexpected – over the past year or so the two companies have frequently cited the work they have done around easing the integration of their respective housing…
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Editor’s Notes: Getting licensing into perspective
We hope that our Microsoft licensing story (page 30) is an accurate reflection of most housing providers’ response to Microsoft’s licensing changes – costs will go up and alternatives will be considered, combined with a degree of resignation. Housing Technology’s view is that while Microsoft should have given more notice of these changes so that…
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