ORM hosted its first Pitch (people innovating to change housing) hackathon at Microsoft’s UK offices earlier this summer, aimed at housing providers looking for fast, collaborative ways to innovate on digital initiatives. Mark Rogers, director of business transformation, Moat, said, “We’d seen similar events that ORM had been part of and thought this was something…
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Flagship’s Microsoft & ESRI BI-enabled arborists
How can technology help to manage 3,500 individual and 1,000 groups of trees covering an area from North Essex to North Norfolk? This was the question posed to Flagship Group’s business intelligence and GIS teams. Victoria Green, business intelligence developer, Flagship Group, said, “Our passion is delivering a great service for our customers, so we…
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Housing IT executives meet to develop next-generation SharePoint solutions
Greensquare’s group head of ICT, Rob Fletcher, reports on how a group of housing IT professionals met in London at the beginning of April with TSG at their London offices to discuss the integration of Microsoft Office 365 SharePoint Online with housing management systems. The session was attended by representatives from GreenSquare Housing, Sentinel Housing,…
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Origin Housing apprentice wins Microsoft award
Origin Housing’s Ben Daniels has scooped an award at Microsoft’s annual Apprenticeship of the Year competition, winning in the ‘support role’ category. This is the second year running that Origin Housing has featured in the awards, with the housing provider’s apprentice Ismail Mulla picking up an award in 2015. Mark Lordon assistant director of IT…
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Housing Technology & Microsoft partner events
Housing Technology and Microsoft hosted two very well-attended ‘In-Depth 2016’ events in July at the Emirates Stadium in London and Old Trafford in Manchester. Each event began with presentations from Moat Housing and Town and Country Housing, followed by a showcase of Microsoft’s solutions for the housing sector, including a very impressive demo created by…
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Microsoft & Hitachi ERP at Affinity Sutton
Affinity Sutton has chosen Hitachi Solutions to deploy a Microsoft Dynamics-based ERP system across all of its operations. Mark Washer, group finance director, Affinity Sutton, said, “We are making this investment because our current systems have come to the end of their useful lives and we want to deliver much more of our services online…
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