Valueworks, a spending control software provider, has been bought by Inprova, the managing agent for Procurement for Housing (PfH). The Valueworks software gives housing providers real-time, collaborative views across all of their spending data as an alternative to the siloed finance and asset management spreadsheets that many still rely on. PfH said that the increased…
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Digital clipboard trial at Flagship
Flagship Group has just started a pilot project to use Wacom Clipboards among its housing teams in Norfolk and Suffolk. The electronic clipboards combine paper form-filling with real-time data capture and are connected to the housing officers’ mobile phones and from there to Flagship’s back-office systems. The three-month trial is expected to demonstrate a variety…
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New Promaster interface
Orchard has been working with web-design specialists Komodo to refresh the user interface of its Promaster asset management software. Given the widespread use of Promaster in the housing sector, the aim of Orchard’s project was to modernise the user interface (UI) while retaining the user experience (UX). Komodo began by collating a styles art board…
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Knightstone pioneers Facebook Messenger
As part of Knightstone Housing’s ‘digital first’ approach to make tenants’ lives easier and services more accessible, it has become one of the first adopters of Facebook’s integrated Messenger ‘widget’. In November 2017, Facebook launched Customer Chat, a Messenger plugin that lets organisations have conversations with customers via their own website. In February 2018, Knightstone…
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L&Q wins CQC award with Alcove
L&Q has upgraded its telecare services using remote monitoring technologies from Alcove, replacing its previous Tunstall devices, and has now been upgraded from ‘needs improvement’ to ‘outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) across four supported living schemes. One ‘outstanding’ scheme is now fitted with over 50 devices including movement, heat, light and eating sensors,…
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Aareon appoints new MD
Aareon has announced that it has appointed Geraint Griffiths as its new joint managing director, alongside the recently-arrived Nigel Rees. Griffiths replaces Stephen Makin who is leaving to pursue new challenges. Griffiths joined Aareon in 1993 and has been the company’s chief operating officer for the past 15 years, including managing the recent merger of…
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