A new cloud-based unified communications service aimed at helping housing providers streamline collaboration has been launched by Capita. The Cisco-based Capita Unified Communications in the Cloud service combines the Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS) with Capita’s secure cloud and service management expertise to deliver collaborative technologies including instant messaging, voice, video, conferencing and presence from…
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Havering Council’s £380k HMS deal with Capita
Capita’s software services business has been awarded a five-year contract worth £380,000 to provide Havering Council with its housing management software suite, OpenHousing. The contract is part of the council’s business transformation programme, designed to improve the delivery of services to tenants and to increase the efficiency of the housing department. The OpenHousing software is…
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Capita mobilises Grand Union Housing
Grand Union Housing Group has recently deployed Capita’s enterprise mobile platform for housing. The choice of Capita TotalMobile is an extension of the housing provider’s existing use of Capita’s OpenHousing and OpenContractor software. Grand Union Housing said that the implementation of TotalMobile would mean that it could expand its predominantly repairs-based mobile capabilities across a…
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Capita supports new Single Access Route to Housing in Wales
SARTH (Single Access Route to Housing) is a partnership project between three local authorities and five housing providers across North Wales, a Welsh Government-supported initiative designed to streamline and simplify the process of allocating suitable housing. United by a single allocations policy, SARTH is striving to improve both customer experience and efficiencies with its new…
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Two Castles’ IoT fuel-poverty project with Capita
Two Castles Housing Association has formed a partnership with Capita to install smart sensor monitoring equipment to capture and analyse household data such as air quality, temperature and humidity. The project is said to be one of the first of its kind for the housing sector and will help tackle overheating and fuel poverty, as…
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The ‘Pay to Stay’ consultation begins…
The government has launched its consultation on the new compulsory Pay to Stay scheme for England. The consultation is open to anyone with an interest in these proposals and will last until 20 November 2015. There is actually only four pages of any real content in the document and I strongly suggest that everyone takes…
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