Community Housing Group has signed a five-year contract with Civica worth £490,000 to implement its cloud-based Cx housing and Keystone asset management platform. With the aim of retaining its 90 per cent tenant satisfaction rating, Community Housing wanted to gain greater data insights into how to deliver better, more personalised services to its tenants. The…
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Housing Management
Best-of-breed 1, ERP 0…
When reviewing which software to buy for a housing provider, much of the required functionality, such as asset management, HR, rent collection and so on, is found in traditional ERPs. If you wanted to make a snap purchasing decision, an ERP system will typically fulfil a housing provider’s basic needs. For the first few weeks…
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Aareon releases 360 self-service portal
Aareon has announced the latest release of its 360 self-service platform, designed to enable housing providers to digitally transform their tenant, staff, supplier and property management operations. From a tenant’s perspective, Aareon 360 gives them full online self-service access to a wide range of information, enabling them to transact seamlessly with their landlord whenever they…
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NIHE awards multi-million pound deal to Orchard
Orchard has won a multi-million pound managed services contract with the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE). The contract is part of a wider ‘IT Futures’ project for NIHE, including migrating its Orchard housing management system and other business applications to IT Assist, the Northern Ireland government’s shared IT services organisation. As part of the new…
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A single IT platform or best-of-breed?
Housing Technology interviewed Itica’s director, Neville Brown, on the merits of best-of-breed applications vs. enterprise resource planning (ERP) software in social housing. What’s the background to the single platform vs. best-of-breed debate? The housing sector is undergoing significant change at a time when the options for delivering systems are increasing, therefore it’s right that housing…
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Can you innovate backwards?
When we talk about innovation in social housing, we always assume it means doing or creating something new to address something going forward, such as addressing the status quo to make the future better. What if we could innovate to address legacy issues, removing the need to create a date in the future where everything…
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