Salix Homes has signed up cloud service provider ANS Group to improve its digital services, alongside pre-project research and assessment work carried out by Alysium Consulting. The project involves migrating Salix Homes’ everyday operations to Microsoft Azure, moving its on-premise CRM system to Microsoft Dynamics 365 and transferring all of its staff onto Office 365….
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ISHA retains PIMSS with asbestos module
Islington and Shoreditch Housing Association has signed a three-year contract with PIMSS Data Systems to retain its asset management software and add an asbestos module to manage its portfolio of properties. The decision to extend its use of the PIMSS software was based on the housing provider’s review of comparable asset management software and wholesale…
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New Charter saves £125 on voids with Aareon
New Charter Group has saved over £125,000 across its voids operation by using Aareon 1st Touch’s mobile software. The Aareon 1st Touch mobile voids process has enabled New Charter to produce a number of new electronic forms, moving away from a paper-based process. Voids are an important part of the housing provider’s ‘keys-to-keys’ process, an…
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L&Q’s performance boost with Kirona
London & Quadrant Housing Trust is now using Kirona’s Dynamic Resource Scheduler across its mobile workforce. L&Q set up its direct maintenance business in 2015 as a pilot project involving just 10 operatives, but this has since grown to a team of 300 covering 50,000 of its properties. The housing provider originally used a slot-based…
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PIMSS takes on new asset management consultant
Ruth Dent, an asset manager with 10 years’ experience in housing, has joined PIMSS Data Systems as a consultant, with specialist expertise in programmed renewal business planning, component accounting, stock assessments, NPV rationalisation and budget setting. PIMSS said that an important part of Dent’s role will be in helping housing providers to implement the company’s…
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WM Housing’s mobile surveying with Promaster
WM Housing Group has recently implemented Orchard’s Promaster Mobile software as an extension of its existing Promaster asset management system. Prior to the introduction of Promaster Mobile, stock condition data was collected in a variety of ways, with different surveyors each using different paper forms, and the resulting data having to be manually processed at…
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