Town and Country Housing Group has chosen Sovereign Business Integration Group to review its IT infrastructure and recommend improvements. The independent review was prompted by the need to upgrade TCHG’s disparate IT systems running across its operations in 16 local authority areas in the South East of England. Sovereign has undertaken an IT health check…
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030 - November 2012
Data as a corporate asset
How embracing new technologies can help with controlling and managing the changes in welfare reform, universal credit and Digital by Default. The need for ‘information insight’ in all organisations is a constant demand from the business and a perennial problem for IT. However, the basic building blocks of ‘people, process & technology’ have always been…
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Centralised GIS at Aster with Esri
Aster Group is making location-based analysis technology a central part of its strategic decision-making processes following its implementation of a GIS system from Esri. The project began in August 2010 focusing on better customer service through to summer 2012 covering fuel poverty mapping. In common with many housing providers, Aster’s previous use of GIS was…
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First Wessex gets GIS intranet from GeoSolveIT
First Wessex is in the middle of implementing an intranet-based GIS from GeoSolveIT. GeoSamba for Housing will be available to all staff across First Wessex’s offices. First Wessex has just completed its administrators’ training on the GIS product, with the system expected to be live in January 2013. The contract includes full deployment of GeoSamba…
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Midland Heart standardises on Cadcorp GIS
Cadcorp has been chosen to standardise all of Midland Heart’s GIS and mapping applications including the replacement of the housing provider’s original desktop-based GIS. James Jervis from Midland Heart said, “Housing providers continually have to balance the need to generate social as well as financial returns. GIS helps us deliver against both sets of obligations….
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Centralised mapping at Places for People with Emapsite
Places for People has completed the deployment of a centralised geographic information and mapping system from Emapsite. The GIS now underpins activities such as site appraisals, stock rationalisation, demographic profiling and neighbourhood planning and is used by over 100 people across the housing provider’s departments. Clare Nolan, GIS analyst, Places for People, said, “Our GIS…
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