Orchard is set to implement a new finance management and procurement system for Bolton at Home, with the objective of delivering business change and efficiencies across the organisation. Based on OpenAccounts, Orchard Financials combines an award-wining finance system with Orchard’s housing-sector expertise and knowledge. Orchard reported that Orchard Financials is a fully integrated finance solution…
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Data Futurists’ 360-degree view of property interests
New software to manage the ownership and asset information of housing providers’ property portfolios has been launched by Data Futurists in a project involving Family Mosaic’s 25,000 homes. The new company has developed data management software to process one million pieces of data, ensuring that complicated ownership details relating to leasehold and freehold titles are…
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Places for People deploys SDS ProVal
SDS is celebrating over 20 years of its ProVal software with a major order from Places for People. The deal involves 180 licences for ProVal, SDS’s viability software, and Sequel, its project monitoring tool, following a review of the housing provider’s existing system. The deal is the largest in SDS’s 22-year history and follows Places…
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Melin Homes wins IT innovation award
Melin Homes has won the ‘workplace transformation project of the year’ award at the UK IT Industry Awards in London. Shortlisted against companies such as BT, Heathrow Airport, HMRC, Lloyds Bank and Virgin Media, the Pontypool-based housing provider won for its innovative agile working project over the last two years. The project was based around…
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Castleton’s new CEO
Castleton Technology has announced that it has appointed Dean Dickinson as its new chief executive officer. Dickinson was previously managing director of Advanced Business Solutions, part of Advanced Computer Software Group (ACS), and he was on the senior management team that sold ACS to Vista Private Equity for £725 million in March 2015. Dean Dickinson,…
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Civica acquires Abritas
Civica has bought software provider Abritas in order to strengthen its capabilities around delivering more efficient tenant services and helping address homelessness. Based in Reading, Abritas’s software-as-a-service solutions are used by more than 170 housing providers and local authorities to provide social housing needs, options and lettings services for tenants, including the SwapandMove mutual exchange…
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