Housing Technology asked Gary Haldane, the IT manager at Kingdom Housing Association, to share his experience of thin-client computing over the past 10 years. Kingdom Housing Association first implemented thin-client technology in 1999, using Citrix Presentation server and we have continued to use the same technology for a decade. We have 180 users, 100 of…
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Unified communications
There have always been good reasons to invest in unified communications, but now the time is right. Cisco has launched the Unified Communications Manager Business Edition which is ideal for the social housing market. Coinciding with our 10th anniversary, we are celebrating by providing free consultancy, design, installation and training for the first 10 orders…
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Ready for disaster?
An effective business continuity plan is essential in any industry; for housing associations, which are often directly responsible for the welfare of their tenants, this is especially true. This article looks at the preparations needed and the methods of testing business continuity plans because for a plan to be considered effective, it must have been…
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A blueprint for mobile working
Every organisation has remote workers; field-based employees or contractors who receive paper job instructions from central locations. This usually involves completing paper forms by hand and either posting or delivering them back to base. It will usually be entered into the same back-office system that originally produced the paper form. However, the technology exists to…
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Power monitoring and optimisation
Do you know the total cost of running your IT network, including the unnecessary money spent on idle energy consumption? With environmental issues becoming part of many business decisions, and as electricity costs rise, the ability to monitor the sources of power consumption is becoming increasingly important. By identifying the sources of power consumption, particularly…
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Technology for Decent Homes
In a little over 18 months’ time, the Decent Homes legislation comes into force, with 95 per cent of all social housing organisations expected to be fully compliant. Yet despite Government targets being outlined as early as 2000, there are fears that many housing associations and councils have done little to ensure that their housing…
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