Great Places Housing Group is using Shelton Development Services’ ProVal tool for development appraisals and its Sequel tool for financial and project management as an integrated SDS Solution package. With 15,000 properties in 30 council areas across the North of England and a £150 million development programme for a further 980 homes by 2011, Great…
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Defect management from BluTek
BluTek has just launched Defects Manager, a dedicated solution to simplify and automate the identification, notification and tracking of defects in newly-built housing stock. Defects management is typically handled using a combination of email, telephone and fax, making it difficult for housing providers and contractors to follow the progress of outstanding defects, measure contractor performance…
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Clearview reduces fees
Clearview Systems has announced that it will be reducing maintenance fees for its performance management customers from April 2010. While the 1.4 per cent annual decrease is relatively small, it is nevertheless a welcome saving for Clearview’s 85 housing customers and reflects the unexpected decline in the retail price index during 2009. Mark Hobart, managing…
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HouseMark pilots SunGard data analytics
HouseMark, the housing benchmark services supplier, is piloting SunGard Public Sector’s Aspiren data analytics service. The project, which began in September 2009, will see HouseMark using intelligent data modelling and analytical techniques to unlock intelligence and valuable insight from data from its 840 members comprising housing associations, ALMOs and local authorities. Ross Fraser, chief executive,…
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Oaklee Housing signs with DeviceLock and Sorce
Oaklee Housing Association, which manages 4500 properties across Northern Ireland, has just completed its implementation of endpoint data leak-prevention software from DeviceLock. The new software will give Oaklee comprehensive control over its employees’ access to local ports on their PCs, peripherals and mobile devices to reduce the risk of accidental or malicious data leakage. Oaklee’s…
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Star connects 250 Keepmoat sites
Keepmoat, which is responsible for more than 43,000 properties for social rent, has chosen Star’s on-demand business service for WAN connectivity, email, data and internet communications across its operating companies – Bramall Construction, Frank Haslam Milan and Keepmoat Homes. The company has just completed the latest phase of its communications network renewal and chose Star’s…
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