As we cover in our feature article in this issue, low-code (or even no-code) software promises to bridge the gap between housing providers’ business users’ desire to develop new tools for, say, tenant services, mobile working or straight-through operational processes, and the time and resource limitations of their IT departments. There is much to commend…
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Editor's Notes
Fire safety technology – Coming to a server near you…
This issue of Housing Technology has several articles and interviews on how technology is being used to improve fire safety. While fire safety and its associated technologies have historically been more of an area for housing providers’ facilities managers than their IT staff, Housing Technology expects that IT departments will soon be more involved in…
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Aiming for business as usual…
As we’ve reported throughout this issue of Housing Technology, our impression is that most housing providers, IT suppliers and their staff are coping admirably well with the impact of coronavirus on their operations. Housing providers’ widespread adoption over the past few years of web-based business applications and cloud/hosted IT services has meant that they have…
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Tough times & sharing your experiences
These are incredibly difficult times, and both our personal and working lives are set to be extraordinarily different for at least the next few months. There will be many challenges ahead, but together we can help to build resilience and support each other in our respective endeavours. We saw the strength that housing providers can…
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Moving fast & saving money
From our recent ‘Connected Communities 2019’ event at the BT Tower (see page 42), which covered some pretty diverse business and technology areas, we’ve compiled an interesting and consistent group of pointers around the successful delivery of business-related IT projects. Speed – Aim to move fast and nimbly with new projects, with an emphasis on…
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The show must go on…
We’ve started in earnest on the production of the Housing Technology 2020 conference and as part of our background activities, it’s been interesting to look back to see how the focus and themes of the conference have changed since the first one in 2010 – those themes are a good barometer and bellwether for the…
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