As 2025 begins, Housing Technology interviewed seasoned technologists from 8×8, Access Paysuite, FLS – Fast Lean Smart, Infinity Group, NEC Software Solutions and Plentific about which technologies housing providers should be considering for their future business plans. Which technologies should housing providers be looking at? Sue Michaelwaite, housing manager, 8×8, said, “One area that will…
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General News
Setting the standard for data
What do you think about data standards in social housing? Are they unnecessary or urgently needed? How could data standards help your internal and external operations? What’s the role of the social housing sector’s IT suppliers to support data standards? And how and where would you actually use data standards within your housing operations? These…
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Picking up the digital pace
The housing sector has been accused of not digitising data fast enough and, compared with other sectors, the pace of change from paper-based and/or fragmented processes to digitisation has been slow. However, since the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, there has been a sea change in attitudes, with digitisation being driven by regulatory requirements. The…
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Interview – Technology & project management fundamentals
What’s your background in social housing? My housing career began in 2006 at the Guinness Partnership where I was involved in several large digital transformation projects. I then moved to Harvest Housing in 2009 where I led the technology workstream of the merger between Harvest Housing and Arena Housing to form what is now Your…
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Reflections on Housing Technology’s Data Matters 2024
As I reflect on our third Data Matters one-day event at the British Museum in central London, I feel a great sense of achievement, not only for Housing Technology but also for the entire social housing sector. Data Matters 2024 brought together so many knowledgeable professionals and it was truly exciting to see how engaged…
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Some things change, some stay the same
When I reflect on two decades of technology in social housing, I think about The Pretenders… Towards the end of the decade known as the ‘noughties’, it wasn’t uncommon to still find green-screen systems, probably encased in a more friendly GUI, running at the heart of your typical housing provider. These business-critical systems would be…
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