New research from payment specialists Allpay and Consortium Procurement indicates that the increasing complications of tendering for contracts is preventing housing providers and local authorities from reviewing and procuring new services, due to the high financial and time costs associated with completing a full tender process. According to the research, a third of all participants…
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Cascade HR & payroll for Shepherd’s Bush Housing
Shepherd’s Bush Housing Group is using new HR and payroll software from Cascade to support its 290-strong workforce, including a wide variety of payroll scenarios. These include different ways of handling sick pay and additional payments for washing machine installations, overnight ‘sleep ins’ for supported housing and out of hours work for maintenance operatives. Katie…
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Capita offers asset management alongside HMS suite
Capita has launched a new asset management system, OpenAsset, using a geographic information system (GIS) to enable housing providers to manage all of their properties and assets from a single point. Using map-based images, housing staff can quickly recognise which assets need maintenance and attend to those without needing to return to the office. Users…
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Harmony Homes in tune with RAM for component accounting
Harmony Homes has selected Real Asset Management to deliver an automated component accounting solution to replace its manual, spreadsheet-based process. The new Asset4000 system is expected to help the housing provider monitor its assets more efficiently, deliver considerable time savings, and meet the latest SORP and IFRS requirements for component accounting. Michael McDowell from Harmony…
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Civica buys Keystone Asset Management
Civica has just bought Keystone Asset Management Solutions for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition fills a gap in Civica’s existing technology suite around asset management, planned maintenance, inspections and component accounting. The two companies have worked together in the past on shared customers, including St Leger Homes and Thames Valley Housing. Joshua Warren, director, Keystone…
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Why is there still so much paperwork in housing?
Why, given that paperwork is so expensive and inefficient, budgets and consequently services are being cut, and the technology to address this so clearly exists, are the majority of housing processes still reliant on pen and paper? Before explaining the reasons, I would like to provide a brief ‘tale of the possible’. At this year’s…
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