Kirona has been listed in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 ‘Ones to Watch’ league. The Tech Track 100 ranks Britain’s private technology, media and telecoms companies with the fastest growing sales. Kirona appears in the feature for the first time as a company that has been highlighted as having a promising future, hence its…
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036 - November 2013
Orbit’s IT team sleep out for Action for Children
Orbit Services is celebrating after raising over £1,000 more than its initial £5,000 fundraising target for young homelessness prevention charity, Action for Children. Orbit’s IT team secured £6089.44 in donations following a series of events to raise money for the charity, including a raffle, cake and samosa sale, car wash service, quiz night, and sleep…
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Housing Technology 2014 speakers confirmed
With three months to go before the Housing Technology 2014 conference and executive forum, we are delighted to reveal a fantastic line-up of speakers from housing providers of all sizes from across the country. Housing Technology 2014 returns to the Q Hotels’ Oxford Belfry on 26-27 February 2014. We have extended the event to two…
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Another regulatory spanner in the works for funding?
Sir – The past few years have seen an extraordinary period of change in the finances of housing providers. The collapse of the financial markets, budget cuts, fundamental changes to development funding and housing benefit changes have meant that housing providers have been regularly revisiting their business plans and sometimes their funders. However, just when…
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Big security for big data
Sir – In his call to arms, Matt Leach from HACT (Housing Technology, July 2013) calls for a sector-wide approach to harness the benefits of big data by pooling resources, but he fails to address the issue of security and compliance. Tenant data is highly sensitive in nature and the sector has a responsibility to…
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Look after your workers
Sir – The recent incident in London during which a bailiff and a housing association worker were left with gunshot wounds during an eviction allegedly over rent arrears, has highlighted the possible dangers faced by front-line workers sent to deal with unknown situations. The two injured people during the London incident were a collections officer…
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