Merthyr Valley Homes (MVH) is moving to dynamic scheduling for its repairs teams using Kirona’s Intelligent Mobile Opti-Time system. In the past, jobs created in MVH’s Academy housing management system were manually allocated to its repairs team. This time-consuming and labour-intensive process will be replaced with dynamic scheduling direct from Academy to Opti-Time. Kirona will…
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Virtual desktops for Solihull MBC
Solihull Community Housing Association has installed a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) system to enable its duty managers to work from any site in the borough. Working with independent consultancy Centralis and in collaboration with Solihull MBC, Citrix XenDesktop has been installed, allowing registered users to access their virtualised desktop from any location, giving them greater…
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Hat-trick for Northgate
Northgate Public Services has been busy over the past few months, signing housing services deals with Hammersmith and Fulham Homes, LHA-ASRA and Ipswich Borough Council. Hammersmith and Fulham Homes hopes to realise £4.7 million in efficiency savings by 2010 following a contract with Northgate. The self-financing deal, which links fees to Northgate’s performance, centres on…
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Editor’s Notes: Hot stuff – Performance management
Performance management seems to be one of the hot application areas at the moment and there is certainly a correlation between the use dedicated performance management systems by housing organisations which have recently improved their Audit Commission ratings. This is for two reasons. The first is that the implementation of a dedicated system to measure,…
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Irvine Housing goes paper-free with Documotive
Coinciding with its move to new premises, Irvine Housing Association is in the process of moving to paper-free working with the introduction of an electronic document management system from Documotive. The Ayrshire-based housing organisation plans to electronically store and manage its housing tenancy and HR files, with the Documotive system expected to be live in…
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