The National Housing Federation recently warned that proposed new accountancy standards could have a massive financial impact on England’s housing associations, reducing their book value by over £1 billion and costing £150 million in red tape. This has prompted fears that plans for thousands of new affordable homes will now be axed to cover the…
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Getting the bandwidth you need
The squeeze on budgets affecting both the private and public sector has given a new urgency to the age-old business question – how can we get more from fewer financial resources? Construction projects reportedly fell by 30 per cent in the last three months of 2010. Housing initiatives are seeing drastic cuts. And the National…
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The Wisdom of Clouds
Stefan Haase from Intechnology explains how a virtual hosting service provides access to cloud-based virtual servers and can transform IT provision within the housing sector. With virtualisation now firmly established on the IT agenda, the focus is very much on how fast and how far the enterprise will push the technology. Conversely, it’s important to…
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Ahead in the Cloud
Organisations across both public and private sectors are increasingly leveraging cloud-based services as an alternative IT delivery model, attracted by their rich potential for technical, financial and operational advantage. The enterprise-class, on-demand, utility-based platform that characterises today’s cloud-based or managed services offering is indeed a compelling proposition; it is setting new standards of affordability, accessibility,…
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InTechnology adds voice to unified communications
InTechnology has launched the UK’s first unified communications (UC) solution with integrated IP telephony, video calling and audio/video conferencing on demand. In partnership with voice specialists POSTcti, InTechnology is offering a hosted Microsoft Office Communication Server service integrated with its desktop telephony service, resulting in an estimated 50 per cent reduction in unwanted email and…
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It’s good to talk
Richard Quine, director of product management and development at InTechnology, explains how push-to-talk technology can help housing staff perform better while keeping their employers on the right side of the law The nature of the housing sector is that invariably any communications system needs to take account of the disparate and diverse needs of those…
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