Greenfields Community Housing has chosen Orchard to supply a complete housing management system, replacing a number of disparate systems from multiple suppliers. The new Orchard Housing solution, which incorporates housing management, asset management, mobile-working, CRM and BPM, will enable all data about a resident or a property to be held in one place, rather than duplicated across different systems.
The first phase of the project is due to go live in April 2014 and will include both CRM and mobile working. In order to deliver a successful project, Greenfields has invested heavily in project resources and has created a dedicated team called SWAT – the Smarter Working Assignment Team.
Helen Harvey, head of business services, Greenfields Community Housing, said, “We set some clear objectives from the start so that we will be able to measure our return on investment from the Orchard system, plus we spent a great deal of time before the project started, mapping and re-engineering our business processes in preparation for the new system. We feel that Orchard’s solution offers us the best combination of functionality and flexibility, and we particularly liked the CRM and BPM capabilities within Orchard Housing.”
