Angus Housing Association is moving to the cloud after choosing Castle Computer Services to deliver a hosted solution as part of an IT infrastructure upgrade, with all of Angus Housing’s infrastructure, applications and services hosted in a tier 3+ certified data centre. Arlene Grant, finance and corporate services manager, Angus Housing Association, said, “The move…
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Omniledger’s Pyramid HMS moves to the cloud
Omniledger has announced that its long-established Pyramid housing management system is now available as a hosted and cloud-based service. Pyramid Essentials and Essentials Plus are designed around the needs of smaller housing providers, giving them access to an integrated rent arrears, cyclical/responsive repairs and finance system. Both are available as part of a subscription package,…
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Adullam Homes tracks mobile usage of Omniledger’s Pyramid
Adullam Homes has begun to deploy the mobile version of OmniLedger’s Pyramid solution to housing, maintenance and support staff. As part of the implementation programme, one of Adullam’s support workers logged her working day to get an idea of the possible savings; this is what she found: At home: check that my device is charged…
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Boosting tenants’ credit scores with Housing Partners
Housing Partners has extended its support for the Rental Exchange, a partnership between Experian and Big Issue Invest. Inclusion of rental payment data in the Rental Exchange enables tenants with good payment records to build a stronger credit history and helps boost their credit scores in the same way that mortgage-holders currently enjoy. Jonathan Westley,…
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Building information modelling – the next big thing for housing providers?
Twenty years ago, in my days in managing a ‘patch’ of social housing in West Yorkshire, there was no real culture of using IT to help you do your job. Arrears were managed with a pencil, a ruler and a pile of computer-generated reports that grew week by week on my desk until I struggled…
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Using IT automation to personalise customer calls
Relationships matter to us. How we interact with others and with the world around us is important. Where we have a relationship, it is important that we feel valued and the same applies when we talk to organisations about personal matters. Aside from health, our homes are the most personal things to us. So when…
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