26 | housing technology 2012 conference & executive forum <strong>sponsor</strong> <strong>profiles</strong> 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 <strong>Housing</strong> 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 <strong>Housing</strong> 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 <strong>Housing</strong> 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-<strong>Housing</strong> 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.
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