As most housing professionals are (or should be) aware, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into force from May 2018, and housing providers should be paying particular attention to what it is and what it could mean for them. Housing providers hold a great deal of personal tenant data. From name, date of…
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Asset management systems – A different perspective
The most common complaint we hear from customers is that they don’t use their asset management (AM) software because it’s too complicated and doesn’t actually provide them with the information they need anyway. Too many of the systems out there are developed by large IT companies with highly-skilled developers but with no understanding of the…
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uSwitch for housing software?
The thought of changing one of your legacy IT systems for new cutting-edge technology might well get the average business user excited but at the same time also fills the average IT team with dread at the thought of migrating years of data or integrating it with existing solutions. While there have been great strides…
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New systems, please!
Reading the last issue of Housing Technology, a few items caught my attention: Orbit with its timeline; Futures Housing with its tenant engagement apps; along with the articles with ‘digital’ in the headline. Those articles made me think of what ‘wonder pills’ the IT industry has prescribed, and what ‘lotions & potions’ the software providers…
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Jumping the fence – From gamekeeper to poacher
Housing Technology interviewed Keith Saunders, MIS-AMS’ new leader of customer support after, as gamekeeper turned poacher, he joined the software supplier in April 2017 after 30 years of working in-house at different housing providers. Have you always been interested in IT? Like a lot of people, I fell into IT almost by accident. Until April…
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Has the dawn of IoT finally broken?
The internet of things (IoT) and its relationship with social housing has been labelled by some people as “a technology looking for an application”. I have been looking at IoT and engaging with the sector for over four years now, educating, informing and learning with the sector on how IoT can be used for the…
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