If you’ve not already been put off by the title of this piece, you may well be a finance person rather than an asset management or IT person. It’s a sad truth that, for asset managers, component accounting is often an inconvenience they would rather ignore or be invisible and, even for finance people, it’s…
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060 - November 2017
Orchard launches Income Analytics
Orchard has just launched its Income Analytics solution, developed in partnership with Coast & Country Housing, First Ark, Livin Housing, and Phoenix Community Housing. The software has been designed to mitigate the growing volume of arrears resulting from universal credit and welfare reform. Income Analytics uses the latest analytical techniques to help housing providers’ income…
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Gas Tag to protect Housing Plus tenants
Housing Plus Group has become one of the first housing providers to deploy Gas Tag’s gas safety technology throughout its 12,000 properties in Shropshire and Staffordshire. Instead of the current ‘locally stored’ method of managing gas-safety checks and certificates, Gas Tag enables these checks to be captured on-site using an app on a smartphone. This…
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The Internet of Things in Housing
To coincide with the 60th edition and ten years of Housing Technology magazine, we are very pleased to give you a preview of our ‘Internet of Things in Housing 2017/18’ report which will be published at the end of this month. Please see housingtechdev.wpengine.com/iot17report to pre-order your copy. Our new report comprises the UK’s first…
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Building GDPR into social housing
As most housing professionals are (or should be) aware, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into force from May 2018, and housing providers should be paying particular attention to what it is and what it could mean for them. Housing providers hold a great deal of personal tenant data. From name, date of…
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Asset management systems – A different perspective
The most common complaint we hear from customers is that they don’t use their asset management (AM) software because it’s too complicated and doesn’t actually provide them with the information they need anyway. Too many of the systems out there are developed by large IT companies with highly-skilled developers but with no understanding of the…
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