City South Manchester, which manages 4500 properties around Manchester, has contracted with GeoSolveIT, a specialist GIS consultancy, for the provision of geographic reporting tools. Dave Power, chief executive, City South Manchester, said, “We were only set up in June 2008, but we recognised that geographic information would be a vital dimension to help us understand…
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‘Pay as you grow’ from InTechnology
InTechnology has launched ‘pay as you grow’ managed IT services for the housing sector. The company has extended its traditional connectivity and managed backup services to include a hosted VoIP solution, Unity IP Voice, and its new Push to Experience (PTX – see below) mobile service to protect workers at risk. With its ‘pay as…
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Sheffield City Council’s £200m deal with Capita
Capita has been selected as Sheffield City Council’s preferred bidder to deliver business transformation for the entire Sheffield community, including housing. The contract is thought to be worth around £200m over seven years, with the option to extend it by three further two-year periods. Capita is expected to deliver a range of services including ICT,…
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Short notice of new customers for Clearview
Tor Homes, Croydon Churches, Peabody Trust and Housing Hartlepool have recently signed with Clearview Systems in order to streamline their strategic and performance planning frameworks. Their decisions were based on their need to be always ready for Short Notice inspections from the Audit Commission.
OpenHousing 8.0 supports Decent Homes
IBS OpenSystems has launched version 8.0 of its OpenHousing housing management system, with added emphasis on new tools to support the processes needed to achieve the Decent Homes standard. OpenHousing v8.0 also includes new modules for the real-time monitoring of workloads and performance, and SMS texting for tenant communications, such as payment arrears or choice-based…
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Integration paradise for Affinity Sutton
Affinity Sutton is in the process of bringing together over 150 interfaces between disparate applications using Datadialogs’ Eden system. Chris Battye, head of business systems, Affinity Sutton, said, “We have more than 150 application interfaces. They have been written by different people, over many years, on different operating systems, and in different languages or scripts,…
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