‘Digital inclusion’ pilot projects are being run in St Helens and North Liverpool to provide residents with free wireless broadband in their homes. The Advanced Internet Methods and Emergent Systems (AIMES) Centre, part of the University of Liverpool, has developed the Community Grid in conjunction with Proxim Wireless and OciusB2, as part of a digital…
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Dane Housing connects with Telecetera
The 70-strong repairs and maintenance team at Dane Housing Group are now using hand-held mobile devices and software from Telecetera to deliver more responsive services to tenants. Dane, which looks after 4000 homes in Cheshire, had found that the processes required to support its repairs and maintenance teams were inefficient and very paper-intensive, with some…
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United Welsh and Cheltenham Borough Homes sign with IBS
IBS OpenSystems has signed contracts with United Welsh Housing Association for CRM and with Cheltenham Borough Homes to streamline maintenance, repairs and reporting. United Welsh is taking IBS’s OpenHousing, OpenFinancials and OpenMobile products to improve the document management and workflow processes involved in the management of its 3600 properties in Wales. The system went live…
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Decent Homes in Cambridge
Cambridge City Council is on target to achieve the Decent Homes standard following its implementation of Anite’s Codeman asset management software, with all of the council’s 7600 social housing properties expected to meet the Government’s minimum requirements by 2010. Cambridge City Council is upgrading to the latest version of Codeman which offers a improved mobile…
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Capita to acquire IBS OpenSystems
IBS OpenSystems is to be acquired by Capita. At the time of writing, Capita’s offer had been declared ‘unconditional’, effectively signalling that the deal will take place. Capita’s offer of 187.85 pence for each IBS share is a premium of some 65 per cent on IBS’s average share price for the three months to 24…
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Texting at London & Quadrant
London & Quadrant is moving towards SMS-based tenant communications with the adoption of Deeplake’s CMGR software. L&Q, which manages 53,000 properties, relies heavily on technology to deliver its business objectives and is already well-known for having developed its own in-house suite of housing applications, known as Arena, alongside a dedicated service centre which handles more…
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