North Star Housing won the bronze award in the innovation category of the inaugural Housing Technology 2024 awards. Sean Lawless and James Walder from North Star Housing explain more about their award-winning programme. At North Star Housing, we embarked on a transformative journey to replace our legacy housing management system with Microsoft Dynamics, with the…
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Remain in light (part one) – Shadow IT
In the first part of a two-part article (orig. planned as a single feature), Housing Technology asked Howell Technology Group and Infinity Group about housing providers’ use of shadow IT (i.e. the unsanctioned use of software/web services, usually without IT teams’ knowledge),and whether its’s a significant problem, an inconvenience or a great way of moving…
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North Star’s Dynamics migration with Infinity Group
North Star is close to completing its full migration from Capita OpenHousing to Microsoft Dynamics with support from Infinity Group. The housing provider was previously using Capita OpenHousing for rent accounting and tenancy management but wanted a more integrated, available and streamlined process. Sean Lawless, director of insight and transformation, North Star Housing, said, “Our…
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Wales & West moves to Dynamics with Infinity Group
Wales & West Housing has moved to Microsoft Dynamics 365, completely replacing its Capita housing management system. Gareth Davies, director of technology and data, Wales & West Housing, said, “A big part of our reason for moving to Microsoft Dynamics 365 was that the technology landscape in the housing sector was quite stale. There were…
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Technology dilemma – In-house vs. external IT development
Housing Technology interviewed housing and software development experts from Asprey Solutions, FLS – Fast Lean Smart, Infinity Group, Totalmobile and Voicescape about the respective merits of in-house software development and external IT development. How do you choose? Totalmobile’s managing director for property & facilities management, David Webb, said, “The main criteria for determining in-house development…
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Manifest connects A2Dominion, Mears & RedkiteCRM
Following A2Dominion’s recent appointment of Mears Group as its new repairs and maintenance contractor, Manifest Software Solutions has completed the integration of A2Dominion’s Dynamics 365-based RedkiteCRM repairs management system and its associated processes with Mears’ own systems within just eight weeks. At the start of the project, A2Dominion identified key areas to focus on as…
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