Housing Technology interviewed IT risk experts from Incline-IT, Northgate Public Services, Riskhub and Waterstons on what IT risks housing providers should be keeping a close eye on and how they can plan for and mitigate those risks. What are the IT risks specific to social housing? Trevor Hampton, director of housing solutions, Northgate Public Services,…
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Waterstons Academy Lite – free training and development
Author: James Alderson, Waterstons In response to the current pandemic, we’ve turned our internal corporate university – external! We’ve always looked to share knowledge at Waterstons and we thought it would be especially useful to anyone furloughed. Through Waterstons Academy Lite we’ll be sharing courses on a wide range of topics, from risk management through to…
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Mobile working 2.0
Housing Technology interviewed mobile working experts from 1st Touch, Incom Business Systems, Intercity Telecom and Waterstons on the new wave of mobile working practices, their predictions for the future and merits of the different technology platforms. It is safe to say that the use of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, is now well…
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IT infrastructure trends in housing
Housing Technology interviewed experts from Castle Computer Services, JMC IT and Waterstons on their views of how housing providers’ IT infrastructures are likely to change over the next few years and also to predict the ‘next big thing’ for new technologies. Key IT infrastructure trends Enabling seamless mobile working and, as a closely-related area, the…
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Gateway appoints Waterstons as IT Partner
Gateway Housing Association has appointed Waterstons as its long term IT partner to work with its in-house IT team to provide first, second and third line support as well as IT governance. The contract began in February 2014 and will run for between three and five years. The delivery of the contract will be coordinated…
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Questioning the value of value for money
From Alistair MacLeod, Director, Waterstons. Sir – While value for money has always been important for social landlords, recent noises from the regulator suggest the effectiveness of consistently achieving it is under scrutiny, as doubts have been raised over the actual value received from procurement contracts. In my experience, a common problem for any organisation,…
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