Hastoe Housing has chosen MIS AMS’s ActiveH housing management software to manage 7,400 homes across its predominantly rural portfolio of properties, including 250 villages with varying degrees of mobile phone signal. The new software is scheduled to go live in March 2018. Hastoe has bought all ActiveH modules, including desktop, rents, assets, lettings, planned maintenance,…
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Housing Partners and NPSS tackle homelessness with IT
Housing Partners and the National Practitioner Support Service (NPSS) have jointly developed a new case management system to help housing providers and local authorities meet the requirements for the 2017 Homelessness Reduction Act. With a pilot project starting in September 2017, Housing Jigsaw is an online tool created to gather data on homelessness direct from…
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Northgate moves to SaaS
The latest generation of Northgate Public Services’ housing management system is now based on software-as-a-service (SaaS), enabling its customers’ tenants and housing staff to access the same software and perform any relevant housing operation from any device. Tenants will be able to use self-service to pay rent, report repairs and apply for housing online via…
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Nourish technology revolutionising Optivo care homes
Optivo is revolutionising services at its care homes with a new digital care management tool that hooks up to computers and smartphones. Called Nourish, the technology allows staff to record every aspect of each resident’s care plan at their residences in Ealing, London. Data regarding everything from activities and interactions to food and fluid intake…
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Kevin Alfred Hider – Obituary
Kevin was born on 10 July 1958 and very sadly passed away on 12 June 2017. I was privileged to know Kevin professionally through the Southern IT Forum (both of us being early organisers of the group) and also to experience the incredibly moving and inspiring presentation that Kevin gave on 18 May. Please do…
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Notting Hill Housing awards £10m contract to Novosco
Cloud-services provider Novosco has secured a five-year deal worth over £10 million with Notting Hill Housing to provide a range of IT services, including service support and delivery, application management, ICT commodity services and strategic planning. Other Novosco customers in the social housing sector include Swan Housing, Northwards Housing and Radius Group. Andrew Muir, group…
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