As the saying goes, “good houses are built on strong foundations.” The same rationale applies to housing providers’ myriad plans for digital transformation. Digital transformation means different things to different people, ranging from the wholesale replacement of entire IT infrastructures and applications through to merely ‘reskinning’ existing websites. However, what most digital transformation projects have…
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Editor's Notes
Widening your horizons
After the recent Housing Technology 2019 conference at the beginning of March, a number of new trends are emerging that apply to most housing providers and almost all software suppliers to the social housing sector. Decoupling applications – Housing providers are beginning to accept that their myriad business applications (even their relatively new, web-based services)…
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All together now
What uniquely connects Sir Clive Woodward OBE, Simon Weston OBE, George Clarke, Baron Bird, Rev. Giles Fraser, Dr Sue Black OBE and Maggie Philbin OBE? They have all been just some of the keynote speakers from our past annual Housing Technology conferences and executive forums, illustrating the diverse nature of each event and how social…
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Technology’s up, down and all around
We have just published our ‘E-State of the Nation 2018/19’ report (now available from www.housing-technology.com/2018report), covering how housing providers are using (and plan to use) technology for their internal business operations and external tenant services. Amid the wealth of up-to-date research and analysis within the report, a few points are worthy of particular attention: IT…
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Data as your lifeblood
When we named this year’s annual Housing Technology event at the BT Tower, ‘Lifeblood 2018 – Data Management in Housing’, we had little idea quite how apposite the event’s title would be. With outstanding presentations from BT, GreenSquare, Places for People, PowerObjects, Shal Housing, Torus and Vivid Housing to a packed audience at the BT…
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Sneak preview – Housing Technology’s The E-State of the Nation 2018
We are in the middle of gathering data for our ‘The E-State of the Nation 2018’ report (there’s still time to contribute to the online survey at housingtechdev.wpengine.com/2018report), so we thought it would be interesting to give you a very rough snapshot of the likely trends so far: Business vs. technology decisions – Housing providers’…
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