A recent report from Tribal Consulting has stressed the importance for social housing organisations to adopt good programme management systems to manage the work required to meet the requirements of the Government’s Decent Homes initiative. The ‘Current approaches to managing housing improvement programmes’ report produced by Tribal on behalf of Delcam PS-Team looks at what…
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Weaver Vale opts for Citrix thin clients
Weaver Vale Housing Trust, one of Cheshire’s largest social landlords, has implemented thin-client services from Citrix to its 350 staff spread across the region. The thin-client strategy is intended to make it easier and faster for Weaver Vale’s IT team to deliver software and the associated updates, while increasing the working life of older PCs….
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BCHG takes Frontier system
Black Country Housing Group is updating its payroll and human resources systems to integrate them into a single system from Frontier Software. Based around Sandwell, Dudley, Wolverhampton and Birmingham, BCHG needed a system that could accommodate the varied payroll requirements across its staff, such as conditions of service, pay frequencies and annual adjustments, and also…
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ICT award for United House
United House has been commended for its Flag process management system in the recent Quality in Construction awards. The Flag systems, developed for United House by Propeller, is designed to integrate all of the different processes that are involved in refurbishment projects, enabling United House to manage a £200 million Decent Homes order book, including…
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Saffron Housing Trust adopts GIS
After taking over 4200 properties from South Norfolk Council, Saffron Housing Trust is using a geographic information system as part of its plan to create a coherent development strategy. Before the introduction of the DataMAP GIS system from SIA, Saffron relied on a paper-based land terrier, which was difficult to maintain, could only be accessed…
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Bromford Group active with MIS
Having been an MIS customer for the past 12 years, Bromford Group is now standardising its technology infrastructure around the MIS ActiveH suite of products to support its management of more than 25,000 properties across central England. Steve Percival, group director of ICT, Bromford Group, said, “We have grown substantially over the last decade and…
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