Northern Ireland-based Oaklee Housing has upgraded its previous in-house intranet with a new Sorce system for its distributed workers. Sorce’s intranet system was chosen due to its ready-made applications, such as document management, image library and helpdesk, and also for the flexibility of customisation, the ability to integrate and its native application development environment. Oaklee…
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Just Housing offers new approach
Following the link-up between Just Housing and the former senior management team of Pinnacle Maintenance Services earlier this year, the new organisation is relaunching itself to offer a range of innovative services to social landlords from consultancy and recruitment through to interim management and managed services. Keith Simpson from Just Housing said, “Since our formation…
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£37m housing contracts for Morrison
Morrison has won new repairs and maintenance contracts worth £37 million with social housing providers, with the option of increasing the contracts to £63 million. In London, Morrison’s new contracts are with One Housing and AmicusHorizon. At One Housing, Morrison will be providing responsive repairs, voids services and support for the Decent Homes programme, with…
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Sabre focuses on human capital
At its recent networking lunch for housing providers, Sabre Resource Management launched its new range of client-focused People Services, encompassing HR services, hiring, outsourcing, human capital and change management, with an overall focus on lean services, value for money and measurable results. Spencer Whitbread, managing director of Sabre Resource Management, said, “Just finding somebody for…
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IT to support surge in demand – Capita survey
Less than half of housing providers are prepared for a surge in demand for social housing, despite almost two-thirds expecting the need for social housing to increase, according to a recent survey from Capita Software Services. The survey of housing managers, operations managers and IT managers, carried out during the Chartered Institute of Housing and…
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MHT adopts Unity hybrid mail service
Metropolitan Housing Trust is using a ‘hybrid’ mail service from Unity to print and dispatch rent statement packs for tenants in its 17,000 properties across London. MHT typically prints around 23,000 rent statement packs, each with personalised content and variable page numbers. Until March 2009, MHT used a non-secure mailing house, with the entire operation…
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