Propeller, formerly known as VanCert, has launched a new digital platform for housing providers and their contractors to use their existing repairs and maintenance data to achieve better legislative compliance. Propeller takes all the data generated from housing providers’ repairs and maintenance activities and converts it into accurate and up-to-date information on service provision and…
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064 - July 2018
Plus Dane’s HMS tender with Skype
In a change from the usual face-to-face ‘beauty parade’ of tender respondents, Plus Dane Housing recently used Skype for Business to run over 70 demonstrations online as part of its goal to choose a new housing management system, with the ultimate aim of reducing its 17 core business systems to just two. Jill Burns, head…
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Hafod Housing’s lone-worker security with StaySafe app
Hafod Housing has introduced a mobile app for the safety of its lone workers. Running on both smartphones and tablets, StaySafe is a panic-button app with a surrounding cloud-based monitoring service that tracks the location of a lone worker via a real-time map and alerts their manager if they don’t check-in within a specified time….
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‘Best in class’ PIMSS retained by Great Places Housing
Great Places Housing has retained its asset management system from PIMSS Data Systems following a thorough review of the market. The new three-year contract was confirmed following an in-depth review of all Great Places’ IT systems by an independent consultant. Using the PIMSS system Great Places uses the PIMSS asset management software to manage risk…
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A week in the life of a housing IT consultant
Work is certainly varied for Jenny Shorter, a senior consultant at IT services firm Sovereign Business Integration Group, who revisits an atypical week at work. I’ve seen a great deal of change in the housing sector. Mostly, it now requires a far more commercially-minded approach than it did when I first joined the sector in…
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Mastering digital transformation
Reduced government grants and funding, as well as diminishing private-sector budgets, continue to put the UK housing sector under considerable pressure, with this all being played out against the backdrop of increasingly rigorous regulation. As housing costs and the management of available stock continues to captivate the media, providers in both public and private sectors…
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