Cosmopolitan Housing Association and Keylogic have jointly developed a virtualised, thin-client disaster recovery (DR) system. Cosmopolitan has taken a pragmatic view of its DR requirements, choosing to focus on the rapid provision of its technology infrastructure in the event of a disaster, reasoning that the offices and sites which it already operates can accommodate staff…
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Weaver Vale repairs three-times faster with NDL
Cheshire-based Weaver Vale Housing Trust is using AWI integration technology from NDL to integrate its Orchard arcHouse housing management system with its Xmbrace Opti-Time dynamic scheduling application and enabling remote, PDA-based access for its repairs team. In doing so, Weaver Vale has reduced the time it takes to respond and fix the 1500 repair requests…
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Monthly subs for Impact Applications’ repairs & maintenance software
Monthly software subscriptions are being offered by Impact Applications for its ImpactResponse repairs and maintenance software, removing the traditional upfront licence costs of new software. Impact’s new SimplyMonthly licensing model includes the same services provided to its enterprise customers, such as customisation, installation and training, but spreads the costs over a three-year contract for easier…
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Procurement for Housing contracts for Computerland
Computerland, which is now part of Capita IT Services, has been awarded both the ICT and multi-functional device (MFD) framework contracts by Procurement for Housing (PfH). ComputerLand can now offer services to more than 670 PfH-member housing organisations for the provision of hardware, including computers, desktop printers and photocopying/multi-functional devices, having teamed up with Xerox…
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L&Q boosts performance with CorVu
London & Quadrant Housing Trust went live in January 2009 with CorVu’s performance management system for its key performance indicators (KPIs). L&Q, which manages 60,000 homes in London and South East England, had previously been using Excel spreadsheets for its various reporting requirements using data from its self-built Arena housing management system. Grant Killick, assistant…
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£500 mobile ordering system from 1st Touch & Grafton
Grafton Merchanting, the parent organisation for Buildbase, Plumbase and Jackson Building Centres, has launched an ‘out of the box’ mobile parts ordering system for housing organisations, following a partnership with mobile workforce technology company 1st Touch. The two-year renewable package comprises a high-quality, touch-screen PDA preloaded with 1st Touch’s materials ordering software, and includes data…
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