A software engineer from Flagship Group has won one of Microsoft’s exclusive ‘most valuable professional’ (MVP) awards for developer technologies in recognition of his exceptional technical community leadership. Flagship’s Chris Sainty won the award based on his work on Microsoft’s Blazor product. He became interested in the product when it was a prototype and has…
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Hitachi Solutions wins Microsoft partner award
Hitachi Solutions Europe has announced that it has won Microsoft’s 2019 ‘global government partner of the year’ award. Over the past year, Hitachi Solutions has delivered innovative Microsoft solutions for customers across housing and local and central government including transforming tenant engagement with housing providers across digital and other channels, using IoT to reduce the…
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ORM & Microsoft hackathon inspires housing innovation
ORM hosted its first Pitch (people innovating to change housing) hackathon at Microsoft’s UK offices earlier this summer, aimed at housing providers looking for fast, collaborative ways to innovate on digital initiatives. Mark Rogers, director of business transformation, Moat, said, “We’d seen similar events that ORM had been part of and thought this was something…
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Flagship’s Microsoft & ESRI BI-enabled arborists
How can technology help to manage 3,500 individual and 1,000 groups of trees covering an area from North Essex to North Norfolk? This was the question posed to Flagship Group’s business intelligence and GIS teams. Victoria Green, business intelligence developer, Flagship Group, said, “Our passion is delivering a great service for our customers, so we…
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Housing IT executives meet to develop next-generation SharePoint solutions
Greensquare’s group head of ICT, Rob Fletcher, reports on how a group of housing IT professionals met in London at the beginning of April with TSG at their London offices to discuss the integration of Microsoft Office 365 SharePoint Online with housing management systems. The session was attended by representatives from GreenSquare Housing, Sentinel Housing,…
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Origin Housing apprentice wins Microsoft award
Origin Housing’s Ben Daniels has scooped an award at Microsoft’s annual Apprenticeship of the Year competition, winning in the ‘support role’ category. This is the second year running that Origin Housing has featured in the awards, with the housing provider’s apprentice Ismail Mulla picking up an award in 2015. Mark Lordon assistant director of IT…
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