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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On the road in Lewisham
London Borough of Lewisham is saving at least £60,000 per year following the introduction of mobile devices and job scheduling software to its workers. Lewisham employs 200 workers such as plumbers, carpenters and electricians, who deliver planned maintenance and repairs for 30,000 homes across the region. But each day, these workers had to visit the…
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£750,000 Ian Williams deal for MET
Property services specialist Ian Williams has signed a three-year, online services contract with Managed Enterprise Technologies for £750,000. Ian Williams, which looks after the maintenance and servicing of buildings for housing associations and councils, relies on its IT infrastructure for everything from logging calls and booking repairs, to scheduling planned works and communicating with operatives…
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