Mergers and partnerships in social housing have been gathering pace as a growing number of housing providers look for M&A benefits such as efficiency savings and economies of scale, making housing more affordable, and creating opportunities to build more new homes. Following the success of the mergers and partnerships presentation at the Housing Technology 2019…
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New or better? How to use what you already have
The housing sector is grappling with a range of new technologies, from chat-bots, digital transformation, cloud and off-premise hosting to the internet of things, machine learning and advanced reality modelling. Against a background of competing business priorities, deciding which of those might be applicable to your organisation is difficult in itself, aside from the related…
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A week in the life of a housing IT consultant
Work is certainly varied for Jenny Shorter, a senior consultant at IT services firm Sovereign Business Integration Group, who revisits an atypical week at work. I’ve seen a great deal of change in the housing sector. Mostly, it now requires a far more commercially-minded approach than it did when I first joined the sector in…
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Spotlight on gender in housing IT
Coastal Housing Group and Sovereign Business Integration Group look at how gender diversity in housing IT is changing in a traditionally male-dominated sector. Has the role of women in society ever been so hotly debated? From women’s suffrage to the recent gender pay gap headlines, the debate rages on. Recent reports have gone onto reveal…
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Taking your organisation to the Azure cloud
The new financial year is very nearly here (depending on when you’re reading this) and budget planning is well underway. If you’re contemplating IT efficiencies for your organisation, it’s a good time to consider migrating to the cloud. Working with organisations across a number of sectors, Sovereign has seen many of its customers successfully exploit…
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Sovereign wins five-year contract at Eastend Homes
Eastend Homes has awarded a new IT support contract to Sovereign Business Integration Group for the next five years. The contract is based on Sovereign’s managed IT services, and includes ‘as a service’ options for back-up, disaster recovery and firewall security. John Henderson, managing director, Eastend Homes, said, “We are well aware of the cyber-attacks…
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