A common problem for the majority of housing providers is that due to the plethora of business applications that each of them typically has, even a simple query such as ‘how many properties do we own or manage’ may result in different answers depending on which application is being used. The phrase ‘a single version…
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Editor's Notes
Web 1.0, 2.0 and the Internet of Things
Since Housing Technology began reporting on IT developments in the social housing sector in 2008, it’s been very apparent that housing providers are catching up with or even eclipsing their contemporaries in other parts of the public and private sectors. This is clearly a good thing. However, Housing Technology thinks that the next demarcation will…
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Risk and diversification
The recent Budget announcements by the government around cutting social housing rents by per one per cent per year is likely to not only limit housing providers’ ability to build new homes but also affect the stability of their income streams and therefore their credit ratings with potential or existing lenders. As many housing providers…
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General Election – Universal credit rolls on
The Conservative’s victory in the General Election and in particular the retention of Iain Duncan Smith as Work and Pensions Secretary should interpreted by housing providers as a clear indication that the widespread roll-out of universal credit is definitely going to happen, despite some misgivings over its technical implementation and its effect on housing providers’…
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Getting the message yet?
At the recent Housing Technology 2015 conference, a common theme throughout almost every single presentation and indeed the IT leaders’ panel discussion was the difficulty of either integrating different applications (even those from the same supplier) and/or transferring data easily between them. Regardless of whether people were talking about messaging, APIs, integration, data transfer, data…
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Editors notes: Mobile trends for 2015
Housing Technology recently received some interesting insights from Trimble Field Service Management around the main trends for mobile working in 2015. These include: Robust and flexible platforms: housing providers are looking to mobile solution providers to deliver platforms across the organisation as the foundation for innovation. IT suppliers therefore have to be ready to add,…
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