Walsall Housing Group and Vale of Aylesbury Housing Trust have both been award the National Computing Centre’s IT Department Accreditation (ITDA). The ITDA is a business improvement programme which examines an IT department’s performance against over 100 common controls, enabling the department to compare and understand its own strengths and weaknesses and make improvements if…
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Northern Ireland Housing gains NCC award
The Northern Ireland Housing Executive has gained the National Computing Standard for IT Departments (ITDA) from the National Computing Centre, alongside the National Housing Federation (see January 2011 issue). With support from its long-term partner BT, NIHE’s IT team has implemented a significant IT and business modernisation programme. This has included the transfer of key…
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Getting serious about security
rances Hipple, a senior consultant for NCC Group, explains how housing providers will need to improve their security in order to exchange information with and connect to local authority networks and systems. In order for local authorities (LAs) to securely communicate and transmit information with the government, they will be required to connect to the…
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Is your consultant really necessary?
Consultancies and systems integrators are widely used by social housing organisations for both business transformation projects and tactical IT initiatives. Housing Technology interviewed a panel of experts from organisations specialising in the housing sector about the merits of consultants and systems integrators, and how best to use them. First of all, it is instructive to…
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Green is good
The environmental impact of IT and computing is coming to the fore. All major hardware and software suppliers are working on green products, the market for which is expected to be enormous. This will also put pressure on IT departments within the social housing sector to go green, save money, and reduce resources and energy…
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