Public cloud is gaining traction with more housing-sector deployments each year, but potential cloud customers have the difficulty of justifying the costs and risks of moving from their existing on-premise infrastructures. Private-cloud IT infrastructure takes significant time, risk and cost to deliver, and over time will have received many upgrades through software and hardware improvements…
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Take back control of your information
Alongside their main task of providing thousands of affordable homes to tenants across the country, housing providers also have responsibility for maintaining the safety and habitability of each property in their portfolio. Every single property managed needs a valid gas and electricity certificate, as well as risk assessments and other safety documentation. The information is…
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Is bad data affecting your performance?
Imagine living in a house without solid foundations – you wouldn’t consider it, would you? Yet that’s exactly what you’re doing when you are managing your tenants with poor quality data. Good quality data is the foundation to success A recent data health check for a mid-sized housing provider, undertaken by Sagacity Solutions in partnership…
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Is EDRM your best corporate insurance policy?
Having worked in the housing sector for over 20 years, it’s safe to say that housing providers are no longer questioning the business case for business transformation but have moved onto the more pertinent question of ‘how do we do it?’. Whatever stage of this transformation journey you are on, your records and their security,…
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Digital transformation in housing
For many businesses, digital transformation is shifting from a long-term aspiration to an urgent requirement. Customers increasingly expect to use digital methods to manage their interactions with brands, and have come to expect the level of personalisation, efficiency and control that can only be achieved with end-to-end digital transformation. Digital transformation is more than just…
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A new deal for housing… What’s the role for digital?
This autumn the leaders of the social housing sector will be looking at how to implement ‘A new deal for housing’. It’s over two years since the devastating fire ripped through the Grenfell Tower block in West London and left 72 dead and hundreds homeless. Since then there have been several inquiries and policy consultations…
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