Housing Technology interviewed Stephen Makin, managing director of Aareon UK, about the specialist nature of many IT suppliers, the future of joined up technologies and how regulators and housing providers could benefit from IT suppliers’ front-line experience. Given the size of the UK social housing sector, are there too many or too few IT suppliers…
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027 - May 2012
Editor’s Notes: Universal reform
The impact of the Welfare Reform Bill and the related introduction of Universal Credit are likely to be high on all housing providers’ agendas. Regardless of one’s views concerning the efficacy of the Bill, at the highest level Universal Credit will have two main impacts. The first is that direct payments to housing benefit claimants…
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Editor’s Notes: Microsoft licensing in housing
As many readers will know, Microsoft announced at the beginning of May that it was increasing the cost of its software licensing for the business market by 29 per cent with effect from 1 July this year. Microsoft’s stated reason for the price rise was to bring the UK licensing costs in line with its…
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