Following its recent acquisition by Capita, IBS OpenSystems has already formed a partnership with Capita Total Document Solutions (CTDS) to provide a bureau-based document back-scanning service. IBS expects to offer an end-to-end document management service, based on its OpenWorkflow and document image processing products and CTDS’s experience and expertise of providing scanning services through its…
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IBS Opensystems
Acquisitions – good or bad for the industry?
With the planned acquisition of IBS OpenSystems by Capita and the earlier acquisition of Northgate by US-buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (see the May edition of Housing Technology), are these good for social housing organisations? On the one hand, the new owners of IBS and Northgate are both likely to have greater funds to support…
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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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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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Community Housing Group takes IBS
Worcestershire-based Community Housing Group is focusing on streamlining its internal processes and improving customer service following the signing of a £100,000 contract with IBS OpenSystems. With 5500 homes around Kidderminster, Bewdley and Stourport, Community Housing Group expects to see efficiency gains in its processing of invoices, payroll, job contracts, timesheets and other internal processes when…
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Lincolnshire Rural signs with IBS
Lincolnshire Rural Housing Association will go live with a new housing management system from IBS in April 2008. The housing association, which provides housing services to some 370 properties in small rural settlements across the county, realised it needed to upgrade its IT systems in order to maintain service delivery standards. It has selected OPENHousing…
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