Magna Housing Group has appointed David Connoley as their new group head of IT. His previous experience includes working at Barnet Group, Viridian Housing and Moat Housing, as well as companies such as Marks & Spencer, Barclays and Virgin Atlantic. Mobile working at Magna is expected to be one of the first areas to be…
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Magna upgrades HR & payroll with Bond Teamspirit.
Magna Housing Group has upgraded its HR and payroll processes with an additional module from Bond Teamspirit to give staff and managers more self-service capabilities and reducing the administrative burden on Magna’s eight-strong HR and personnel team. Using the new system, personnel and payroll administrators at Magna now have reliable employee information on which to…
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Sovereign scores again with Magna
Magna Housing Group is using Sovereign Business Integration to deliver advice and a proactive improvement programme for its responsive repairs system covering Magna’s 8,000+ properties. This follows Sovereign’s 2010 project which reviewed Magna’s income management processes. David Block, group head of IT, Magna Housing Group, said, “Late last year Sovereign reviewed our computerised income management…
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Magna avoids voids with Xmbrace
Magna Housing Association has installed Xmbrace’s Project Planner tool to manage its voids process, resulting in better workforce utilisation and properties typically being turned around ready for re-letting five days faster than before. The housing provider, which employs 200 staff and manages 6,000 properties in Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire and Somerset, had already been using Xmbrace’s…
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400% faster surveys for Magna with PIMSS
Magna West Somerset has increased its completed surveys by almost 400 per cent following the introduction in 2009 of a handheld asset management system from PIMSS Data Systems. Despite operating in an area with widely-dispersed clusters of properties, Magna’s project surveyor has accelerated his rate of completed surveys from four to 15 per day with…
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Kypera ousts SunSystems from Magna
Magna Housing Group has replaced its SunSystems finance system with an integrated package of applications from Kypera. Magna said that its previous SunSystems package could not keep up with the growing complexity of its business requirements, while the running costs of the package were increasing. The requirements for the new finance system included a Windows-based…
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