Housing
If you provide housing services, are a housing association or work in the housing sector we are here to help. We understand how difficult it can be to continue to improve the services you provide your tenants. It can be a challenge to keep up with the latest technology trends and modernise your IT infrastructure.
At Bridgeall we have long standing relationships within the housing sector, working with a number of the largest housing associations in Scotland, supporting providers of over 50% of the homes in Scotland.
Challenges
At Bridgeall we understand the challenges facing the housing sector.
Housing services
At Bridgeall we strive to deliver exceptional technology services to transform your business. We are a leading Microsoft Solutions Partner with a team of Microsoft certified consultants covering the full range of Microsoft Technology.
We provide a full range of services to all of our sectors but below are some services we think are particularly relevant to the housing sector and have worked with our housing customers.
- Managed IT support
- Business process automation
- Application development using low code
- Microsoft licensing and support
- Merger and acquisition IT infrastructure integration
Housing case studies
Supporting decisions with a unified data platform – Sandstone Property
Sandstone Property had a manual process for providing VIP customers with a set of reports each month. Bridgeall were brought in to provide an automated process to replace the Excel process and provide a reliable data platform with clean enhanced data that supports future reporting requirements.
Link Group – Enhanced Productivity with O365
One of the largest social landlords in Scotland, Link Group is a group of award-winning social enterprise companies serving over 15,000 customers.
In order to take advantage of the full potential of the O365 portfolio of services Link made the decision to migrate from Google G-Suite.
Bridgeall were appointed to help Link Housing Group move from the Google G-Suite cloud solution and onto the Office 365 platform. This involved the migration of all mailboxes, user and team data stores.Bridgeall established a migration farm hosted in Azure for the duration of the project where data was initially transferred and converted from Google to Microsoft format. All mailboxes for users and shared resources containing email, calendars and contacts were migrated in O365 exchange online. It was completed as a cutover migration for the entire organisation with around 800 users going live across a single weekend.
Link and Weslo Housing Management – Office 365 Tenant Migration
Link Group, one of Bridgeall’s long standing customers, were selected by Welso Housing Management to be the preferred partner for the transfer of all homes and services. This meant that Link Group had two separate IT infrastructures that they were looking to merge to support greater collaboration and integration of the new business. Bridgeall were invited to work with Link and Weslo IT teams to assist the transition and Office 365 tenant migration works to complete the Weslo technical integration.
Link Group – A Power Apps Health & Safety Risk Assessment Solution
One of the largest social landlords in Scotland, Link Group is a group of award-winning social enterprise companies serving over 15,000 customers.
As part of an on-going relationship with Link, supporting the Group on its journey to becoming a Modern Intelligent Workplace, Bridgeall delivered a new Risk Assessment solution using Power Apps. The new solution delivered cost and productivity improvements by streamlining the process of raising actions, reviewing and approving Risk assessments before they are finally published for use.
Consequently, Risk Assessments are now worked through to an approved state producing a final Risk Assessment document for organisation-wide use.