2013 will be a challenging time for housing providers as they face continuing funding cuts and the introduction of universal credit. Added to this is an increasingly ‘tech-savvy’ workforce wanting the flexibility to choose how, where and when they work. However, we see access to technology as a real opportunity for organisations to thrive, stand…
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Moving IT systems into the cloud
From: Peter Wilson, Senior technical architect, JMC IT Sir – More and more clients are asking me, ‘should I be putting my IT systems into the cloud, particularly when we all want to cut costs and make the best use of our shrinking IT budgets?’ It seems that housing providers are increasingly looking at cloud-based…
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Putting IT to work
From: Mark Summers, Head of technology sales for housing, JMC IT Sir – April has been an important month for the housing sector with the completed merger of Harvest and Arena to form Your Housing, now one of the biggest housing groups in the UK. From working on solutions to enable the Your Housing merger…
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JMC completes £2m contract to merge Arena and Harvest
JMC IT has just completed a two-phase, 18-month project for the merger of Manchester’s Harvest Housing Group and Liverpool’s Arena Housing Group to form Your Housing Group. The new group will now own and manage around 32,000 properties in the North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands. Salford-based JMC originally won the initial £600,000 tender against…
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JMC IT makes new housing appointment
JMC IT has appointed John Blackburn as its senior technical architect to support the technology provider’s work with some of the North West’s largest housing providers, including Mosscare Housing and Harvest Housing. Blackburn joins JMC IT from CNT where he spent over 15 years working on IT and telephony systems for housing providers. Andrew Burgess,…
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Virtual desktop infrastructures – can IT break down organisational barriers?
To say that ‘more for less’ has become something of a buzzword over the last few years would be a huge understatement, with public and private sector organisations under pressure to deliver better customer satisfaction for tenants while also keeping costs down. Housing providers’ IT teams have become fixated on this issue, aiming to bring…
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