sponsor profiles - Housing Technology

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sponsor profiles
aareon uk ltd
web
www.aareon.co.uk
telephone
02476 323 723
contact
Emma Page, Marketing
Consultant
The QL product portfolio includes:
advanced 365
web
www.advanced365.com
telephone
020 7880 8888
email
info@advanced365.com
contact
Roy Wood, Sales Director
social media
twitter: @Adv365
blog: www.advanced365.com/blog
Aareon is the leading European housing IT provider,
with over 9.5 million units of stock managed on
our software throughout Europe. Our position as
a profitable, growing and innovative organisation
enables us to set the standard for business processes
in the housing sector both today and in the future.
Aareon has over 100 customers in the UK, varying
in size from small organisations with just a few
hundred units of stock to larger businesses with tens
of thousands of properties, with customers the length
and breadth of the UK and the Channel Islands.
As innovators within the housing management
field, we have an excellent track record of delivering
change, working in close partnership with our
clients to enable them to work in new ways and
transform their decision-making process.
Aareon is a company which partners with housing
organisations to help transform their service delivery.
Aareon is the only housing management software
supplier in the UK with software designed specifically
for social housing providers. Our total focus on
housing, our wide perspective and our belief in
building strategic relationships allows us to lead the
market. We feel that this also brings real-life benefits
to our most important partners – our customers.
Our main objective is to provide software that gives
your organisation a clear picture of its assets, its
customers and its finances. We aim to help you to
improve delivery of key agendas – excellent service,
value for money and efficiency in business processes.
Rent Accounting
Reactive Repairs
Customer Relationship Mgt (CRM)
QL Financials
Asset Mgt & Component Accounting
Development Module
Documotive EDM
Waiting List, Allocations & CBL
Planned Maintenance
TaskCentre Alerts
Direct Debits
Reporting Services
Questionnaires
QL Personnel/Payroll
Advanced 365 designs, deploys, operates and improves IT
managed services from the desktop to the data centre
which help housing associations to align their IT to their
core business requirements. Working as part of Advanced
Computer Software Group (Advanced) plc, Advanced
365 focuses on the delivery of managed services, cloud
computing, mobile solutions, application development
and software as a service (SaaS), helping support the
group’s 150+ housing association customers.
In September 2011, Notting Hill Housing Trust
(NHHT) contracted Advanced 365 to deliver a
private cloud managed IT service for four years with
the option of extending it for a further two years.
This £7.4m outsourced IT service contract will be
key to supporting NHHT’s growth plans and flexible
working environment, ensuring 99.5% service
availability.
Martin Carpenter, head of central services, Notting Hill
Housing Trust, said, “Advanced 365’s outsourced IT service
will support our growth aspirations and deliver a range
of benefits, from flexible anytime and anywhere IT
access for staff through to improved service for tenants.
The QL Product Portfolio
QL offers your organisation the ability to build a
solution that performs multiple business functions
within the same core database. This means that all
of your housing, financial, personnel and payroll
information can be held in one secure place, with no
troublesome interfaces to worry about. Transactions
in one part of the system update other relevant
data automatically – and in real time!
• QL is a truly integrated and highly functional
software solution designed specifically to meet
the needs of social housing providers. Easy to
implement, easy to use and easy to run, QL
makes your staff’s jobs easier while streamlining
your processes and giving you access to the
information you need to make the right business
decisions at right time.
• QL Housing is used by a diverse array of
organisations throughout the UK, for property
management in the social rented, private
residential, commercial and student lettings
sectors.
• QL provides simple but comprehensive enquiry
facilities, allowing your staff to access information
easily and efficiently and giving you a 360° view of
your customers at the touch of a button.
• QL is a flexible solution that helps you to improve
service delivery by streamlining and automating
your business processes and providing you with a
technical platform enabling mobile, remote and
office-based employees to be more productive.
Voids management
Estate Management
Gas Servicing
I-Housing
Contractor Module
1st Touch Mobile
Supporting People
We also anticipate cost savings of up to 20% per
annum compared with delivering this in-house. The
Advanced 365 outsourced solution will provide us
with an excellent foundation for the future. Staff
and customers will have ready access to flexible,
reliable and efficient IT systems and we will be able
to quickly and easily take advantage of new and
emerging technologies, ensuring that the Trust
remains at the cutting edge of service delivery.”
As part of Advanced, Advanced 365 also provides
Advanced On-Demand, a cloud-based application service
from Advanced and supports OpenAccounts, the leading
financial management software package for the housing
market, and other industry-leading software from
sister company Advanced Business Solutions.
Delivered on a cost-per-user-per-month basis with
three different service options, Advanced On-Demand
offers faster time to deployment with FastStart,
guaranteed levels of service, and a single point of
contact for all hardware and application support.
In all cases, Advanced 365’s aim is to ensure the
client views IT as an asset and not a liability.