Scottish Borders-based Eildon Housing Association has replaced its spreadsheets with Shelton Development Services’ Sequel tool for the appraisal and management of its housing developments. Sequel helps Eildon’s planning team with project management and day-to-day cashflow controls as well as providing full reporting and management information from housing and asset management systems. Mark Walton, project leader,…
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Great Places selects SDS software
Great Places Housing Group is using Shelton Development Services’ ProVal tool for development appraisals and its Sequel tool for financial and project management as an integrated SDS Solution package. With 15,000 properties in 30 council areas across the North of England and a £150 million development programme for a further 980 homes by 2011, Great…
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Future of IT in UK social housing
Social housing is always changing and adapting to meet the needs of a growing population, not to mention adhering to standards issued by the government. But no matter how fast social housing changes, technology invariably changes faster. New technology and software is often exciting, groundbreaking and can promise a new era of productivity and efficiency….
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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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But is it web-enabled?
I would like to introduce this article by describing a common situation when we are demonstrating our software to housing associations. Imagine a group of people animatedly discussing how the software might help them, when one person, usually a senior director, asks in a knowledgeable tone, “ah, but is it web-enabled?”. When pressed to explain…
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