Twenty years ago, in my days in managing a ‘patch’ of social housing in West Yorkshire, there was no real culture of using IT to help you do your job. Arrears were managed with a pencil, a ruler and a pile of computer-generated reports that grew week by week on my desk until I struggled…
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Housing Management
Why Solihull Community Housing moved to Open Housing
I have been thinking about the issue of IT systems and consolidation. This seems like an extremely relevant issue here in Solihull at the moment. In the past, our users have generally favoured the idea of using best-of-breed business applications. They argued that if they could get a smaller system that is specifically built for…
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Luminus shines on new Aareon housing system
As part of its ‘2020 Vision’, Luminus is implementing a new housing management system from Aareon. The Aareon QL software will be used to provide a wider choice of online services for tenants and support greater scope for mobile working by Luminus’s staff. Luminus started its procurement process in August 2014, beginning with a review…
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Bristol Council selects Civica to transform tenant services
Bristol City Council has a signed a five-year, £1.9 million contract with Civica for a new cloud-based housing management system to support its 61,000 tenants. Civica’s Housing Cx software will enable the council’s staff to access all information about tenancies, rents, repair works and feedback in one place as well as give them up-to-date information…
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Let’s get digital – transforming the IT-enabled home
Kevin Alderson, sales and marketing director at Tunstall Healthcare, considers the challenges and latest thinking around digital and IP technologies. It’s an exciting time for technology as we move into the digital world, but it’s a challenge to understand what it actually means for housing providers. Technology is moving towards fully digital/IP-based systems and there…
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Housing Partners in the cloud with Housing Hub
Housing Partners has launched a new version of its Housing Hub, with greater emphasis on data analytics. The new service comprises a number of cloud-based modules aimed at giving housing providers the tools they need to not only identify and support tenants in greatest need, but also to uncover and analyse correlations across their tenant…
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