Less than half of housing providers are prepared for a surge in demand for social housing, despite almost two-thirds expecting the need for social housing to increase, according to a recent survey from Capita Software Services. The survey of housing managers, operations managers and IT managers, carried out during the Chartered Institute of Housing and…
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MHT adopts Unity hybrid mail service
Metropolitan Housing Trust is using a ‘hybrid’ mail service from Unity to print and dispatch rent statement packs for tenants in its 17,000 properties across London. MHT typically prints around 23,000 rent statement packs, each with personalised content and variable page numbers. Until March 2009, MHT used a non-secure mailing house, with the entire operation…
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QlikTech business intelligence from Castle
Castle Computer Services has launched QlikView software, an affordable business intelligence system for the housing sector. QlikView provides super-fast ‘in-memory’ analytical capabilities by dynamically integrating and presenting data from multiple data sources, such as the accounting, housing DLO, HR, payroll and asset management systems, to provide users with a single view of the business. George…
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Sitehelpdesk cuts VAHT queries by 90%
Vale of Aylesbury Housing Trust has reduced its outstanding IT helpdesk queries by almost 90 per cent following the introduction of Sitehelpdesk.com. Until just over a year ago, VAHT was using an Access database developed in-house to log and track support calls to its IT department. But as VAHT grew, the database’s lack of sophistication…
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Accord Group signs NorthgateArinso and House-on-the-Hill
Accord Group has signed a seven-year contract with NorthgateArinso for a web-based HR and payroll system. NorthgateArinso’s ResourceLink is currently being implemented and is expected to be operational by April 2010. ResourceLink is intended to streamline and consolidate Accord’s operations through the use of web-based HR and payroll technologies, and underlining the housing provider’s aim…
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A2Dominion follows the BluBrik road
A2Dominion Group has enhanced its property development processes with the introduction of BluTek’s BluBrik project handover module. The BluBrik software automatically collates management information from multiple sources to produce real-world online view covering the development of an entire housing scheme. The project began 18 months ago and the system went live around the end of…
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