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
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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Editor’s Notes: Microsoft licensing in housing
As many readers will know, Microsoft announced at the beginning of May that it was increasing the cost of its software licensing for the business market by 29 per cent with effect from 1 July this year. Microsoft’s stated reason for the price rise was to bring the UK licensing costs in line with its…
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Editor’s notes: Bring your own device
The widespread consumer adoption of smartphones and tablet devices means that there are growing demands from employees to be able to use their own devices for corporate activities. At the most basic level, this might just mean access to corporate email but it can and should extend upwards into corporate data access and line-of-business applications….
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Orchard’s apprentices
We applaud the decision by Orchard Information Systems to start an apprenticeship scheme (see page 4) for local school leavers who don’t want to go to university (or perhaps can’t afford it, given the cost of fees these days). The year-long apprenticeships are mutually beneficial, with the apprentices having the opportunity to ‘earn while they…
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Editor’s notes: Housing without frontiers
We are predicting that the growth in mobile working for both in-house and field-based workers, the increase in unified communications and cloud services, and the widespread availability of tablets and smartphone devices will form the ‘perfect storm’ necessary to cause a revolution in the way housing providers run their operations and the agility with which…
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