• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
Housing Technology logo

Housing Technology

Housing | IT | Telecoms | Business | Ecology

  • Free Subscription
  • Search Archive
  • Home
  • Research
  • Magazine
  • Events
  • Recruitment
  • Blog
  • On Demand
  • Contact
Home / Magazine Articles / Home Group halves £1m travel budget with Citrix

Home Group halves £1m travel budget with Citrix

Home Group is using web conferencing tools from Citrix Online to allow over 4000 staff communicate online across Home’s 565 UK locations, halving its £1 million travel budget and increasing employee productivity.

By using GoToMeeting, Citrix’s online meeting service, Home Group has removed the need for unnecessary travel to face-to-face meetings by conducting online sessions between dispersed staff and project teams. Home Group is also using Citrix’s GoToWebinar service to communicate company announcements to up to 1000 people simultaneously.

Keith Woolley, director of IS, Home Group, said, “For web conferencing, our key criteria were guaranteed security, easy set up and a simple, intuitive interface for our users. GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar tick all these boxes and are already playing a key role in reducing travel expenses and enabling us to work smarter and more efficiently with consistent and accurate messages. With a low fixed monthly fee for as many meetings as we want, we have already experienced a significant return on our investment.”

Home Group’s adoption of the Citrix technologies is part of a company-wide transformation programme to improve customer satisfaction, rationalise business processes and reduce corporate expenditure.

Andrew Millard, marketing director, Citrix Online, added, “Home Group’s experience with travel expense reduction and productivity enhancements is a testament to the power of collaboration technology to change the economics of a business.”

See More On:

  • Vendor: Citrix
  • Housing Association: Home Group
  • Topic: Infrastructure
  • Publication Date: 013 - January 2010
  • Type: News

Primary Sidebar

Most Recent Articles

  • Free cyber-defence tools from NCSC
  • Learning from history
  • Grand Union Housing gets connected with Aico HomeLink
  • The silences in the system: Predicting and preventing damp and mould
  • Looking back and to the future: Cyberthreats in social housing
  • Hyde signs repairs contract with Totalmobile
  • Fuelling high performance automation
  • Morgan Sindall’s Carbon Zero decarbonisation tool
  • An ethical approach to arrears
  • Housing and the ever-evolving workplace
  • Supporting residents with home safety risks
  • Less innovation & more service design at RHP
  • Ateb Group outsources IT help desks to Central Networks
  • Capital Letters partners with Evo Digital to tackle homelessness
  • Calico appoints M247 for digital transformation
  • 24/7 care requires 24/7 technology
  • Govtech trends for 2023
  • Are you ready for business process automation?
  • Lincoln council moves to the cloud with Civica
  • Why do IT business improvement projects fail?
  • Flagship and Ebrik launch augmented reality app
  • Following the golden thread
  • Setting the standard for carbon-monoxide protection
  • The business case for data
  • Digital twins – When, not if…
  • Using data to build communities
  • The cyber-security jigsaw’s missing piece – Managed detection & response
  • Cyber-security challenges in housing
  • Digitalising retrofits with SHDF & HomeLink
  • Tips for improving care and support

Footer

Housing Technology
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Contact
  • Free Subscription
  • Book an event
  • Blog
  • Search All Articles
  • Research
  • Update Your Subscription
  • Privacy Policy

Welcome to the housing Technology – Trusted Information For Business Professionals in HOusing

Housing Technology is the leading technology information service for the UK housing sector and local governments. We have always believed in the fundamental importance of how the UK’s social housing providers use technology to improve their tenants’ lives.

Subscribe to Housing Technology to gain market-leading research, unsurpassed peer networking opportunities and a greater understanding of your role to transform your business.

Copyright © The Intelligent Business Company 2022 | Terms and Conditions | Privacy Policy
Housing Technology is published by the The Intelligent Business Company. A company with limited liability. Registered in England No. 4958057 | Vat Registion No. 833 0069 55.

Registered Business Address: Hoppingwood Farm, Robin Hood Way, London, SW20 0AB | Telephone: +44 (0) 20 8336 2293

htc23 pop banner