Housing Technology interviewed experts on the ‘bring your own device’ (BYOD) trend from Accellion, Diligent Boardbooks, JMC IT, MET, Microsoft, Oneserve and Sovereign Business Integration Group to find out how BYOD is relevant to housing providers, its advantages and disadvantages, its different delivery models and who is driving its adoption in housing. The BYOD trend…
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Feature Articles
Are you ready for universal credit?
With universal credit high on everyone’s agenda and as a continuation of the article in the September issue, Housing Technology interviewed representatives from MET, Montal Computer Services, Netcall, Online Centres Foundation, Paragon Community Housing Group and Sovereign Business Integration Group to find out their views on how welfare reform will affect housing providers. Preparing for…
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Benchmarking IT services
Based on contributions from BPHA, F-fectis, Montal, Northgate Public Services and Sovereign Business Integration Group, this feature article looks at how housing providers can benchmark their IT services, what to benchmark, the merits of internal staff and external consultants, how often to benchmark and how to integrate benchmarking into other IT and business projects. Why…
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Welfare reform – Taking credit where it’s due
With just over a year until universal credit and its associated welfare reforms are expected to be introduced, Housing Technology gauged the housing sector’s opinion on the likely results of this massive change to finance in social housing and its IT impacts. The planned introduction of universal credit will have a very direct impact on…
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Future perspectives on asset management systems
Housing Technology interviewed a number of housing providers and IT suppliers on the use of asset management systems (AMS), the business and IT issues surrounding their implementation, purchasing criteria, and their integration with other existing ‘core’ business applications. By way of introduction, the National Housing Federation’s recently-published book, ‘Managing the assets – A guide for…
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To share or not to share
Shared services have been growing in popularity over the last few years as housing providers realise that shared services allows them to either gain access to products and services that they couldn’t otherwise afford on their own or use their IT budgets more prudently by leveraging the costs savings and economies of scale inherent in…
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