From: Declan Grogan, Managing director, NDL Sir – I read with interest your article ‘Are you ready for Universal Credit?’ in the March edition of Housing Technology. It was heartening to hear Thurle Phillips from Paragon Community Housing Group acknowledge the importance of mobile working in helping to ease the administrative and logistical burden universal…
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Letters
Dispelling the myth of BYOD security
From: Mitesh Patel, Managing director, Fifosys Sir – The security of your corporate data is not at risk by implementing a BYOD policy. Many organisations are wary of implementing a BYOD policy as it is perceived that their corporate data will be at greater risk, but this is not the case. An effective BYOD strategy…
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Don’t forget the little things
From: Mark Birch, Strategic ICT manager, Gateshead Housing Sir – My ALMO switched to a sub-regional choice based lettings scheme in October 2012. The mechanism prescribed to share information between our housing management system and the sub-regional systems was NDL AWIsx. NDL’s universal application integration toolset enables disparate applications to be joined together cost-effectively. It…
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Changing attitudes
From: Martyn Rees, Housing product director, Civica Sir – New research from the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) has found that six out of 10 companies now allow the use of employee-owned mobile devices for work. This changing attitude demonstrates quite a significant sea change among IT professionals as the BYOD debate surges forward. By…
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UK vs. The Netherlands
From: Joop Schoppers, IT manager, Woningcorporatie De Woonplaats Sir – In The Netherlands, we have about nine IT suppliers in the social housing sector and the number of housing providers has decreased in the last few years because of mergers. The suppliers therefore need to work harder to get new customers, and a new customer…
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Accounting for size
From: Karen Conneely, Group commercial manager, Real Asset Management Sir – With over 1,200 housing providers in the UK and over two-thirds of those managing fewer than 2,000 homes, smaller organisations are facing a problem. They have the same requirements when it comes to SORP and component accounting as a larger organisation, but they don’t…
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