Civica has announced that the Guinness Partnership, Golden Gates Housing and One Vision Housing are deploying its Public Protection software. A pilot site at Guinness Northern Counties went live during April 2009 followed by a wider staged roll-out, while One Vision signed contracts with Civica in May 2009. Golden Gates has now been operational for…
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Double win for MIS at Bromford Group and Housing Plus
In a project valued at £150,000 and due to be completed by April 2010, Bromford Group is deploying the MIS-AMS ActiveH housing management system across all members of its group. Bromford Group, which owns 25,000 properties, employs more than 1000 staff and has been an MIS Active Management Systems customer for the past decade, is…
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Opti-Time at Charnwood Neighbourhood Housing
Charnwood Neighbourhood Housing has been using Xmbrace’s Opti-Time workforce scheduling system since May 2008, six months after having been set up as an ALMO for Charnwood Borough Council’s 6000 properties. CNH needed to improve appointment performance and customer care while cutting excessive fuel costs. Furthermore, the Audit Commission identified shortcomings with CNH’s IT services and…
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Tower Hamlets outsources IT to Sovereign
As part of a three-year managed services contract which began last year, Tower Hamlets Community Housing has outsourced its technology operations to Sovereign Business Integration. THCH was established in 2000 and now provides 2800 homes and employs 80 staff across four locations. However, by 2006 THCH had not upgraded its IT hardware or software infrastructure,…
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Jadu spins web for Gateshead Housing
Following an Audit Commission inspection which highlighted the need for Gateshead Housing Company to review its web site, the housing provider launched a new ‘customer-centric’ site based on Jadu’s content management platform. Following the tender process for the development of the new site, web content management system provider Jadu was selected as the development partner….
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Pressure grows for public-sector IT managers
Public-sector IT managers are under twice as much pressure to reduce operational costs as their private-sector counterparts, according to research by Centralis. One in two IT departments said that they had been asked by senior management to help to reduce their organisation’s operating costs, compared with fewer than a quarter in the private sector. Increasing…
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