Northgate Public Services is set to consolidate multiple IT systems at East Kent Housing into a single, unified solution in order to streamline its provision of housing services on behalf of Canterbury, Dover, Shepway and Thanet councils. At the moment, East Kent’s staff need to navigate across four different housing management systems which are only…
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Housing Management
Clearview performs for Yarlington Housing
As part of its 2020 strategic plan, Yarlington Housing Group has implemented Clearview’s performance management system in order to monitor and spot trends among the 20 ‘pledges’ comprising its plan. Yarlington Housing was originally looking for a system to monitor its KPI suite, in order to give accountability to its managers and enable trends in…
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BoardPacks app at Watford Community Housing
Watford Community Housing Trust is using BoardPacks software on iPads to make its board papers easier to use and reduce the administrative burden and cost of preparing them. Julie Robinson, director of resources, Watford Community Housing Trust, said, “BoardPacks is simple to use, and board members that were already familiar with Apple products found it…
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Enterprise tools for smaller HAs from SASSHA
SASSHA has reported that although smaller housing providers may not have the IT budgets or the training to get to grips with some of the more complicated housing software, they still need the same operational capabilities as the larger housing providers, but simply on a smaller scale. To address this, SASSHA has spent three years…
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Mobility, social housing and technology
What is technology in housing? In many ways, the point of technology is to simplify traditionally complex processes and make them easy for everyone, everywhere, at any time. Technology in housing is about the ease with which people not only find places to live but also the experience of their home. The homes in which…
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Working 2.0 – It’s not just mobile
In 2007 I visited the InMotion conference organised by Xmbrace. This was an impressive event, with everyone who was anyone in the mobile working space present. Back then, the talk was almost exclusively concerned with maintenance field force automation; repairs operatives in vans, GPS, how to introduce scheduling, rugged devices and promises of integration with…
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