Further to the story in the last issue about Yarlington Housing’s success with GIS, the housing provider has since won the ‘Best Not for Profit IT Project’ at the UK IT industry awards.
Beating companies including Barclay’s Bank, Scottish FA, Disabled Living Foundation,and Cancer Research UK in its category, Yarlington Housing demonstrated its solution to link in-house and external third-party data using a geographic information system.
Karen Dumper, head of information, Yarlington Housing, said, “This project demonstrates our need to understand our working practices, our neighbourhoods and our residents, and shows what a relatively small business by comparison to the multi-nationals can do to change the way it operates.”
