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
Sandstone – A Proactive Managed IT Services Partner Case Study
Sandstone (previously Grant Property) had limited internal resources and a complex range of third-party suppliers to manage their IT infrastructure. This was proving to be ineffective, and the team were actively looking for a new Managed IT Services partner to help them transform their IT. Bridgeall was recommended to Sandstone and invited to tender for the provision of Managed IT Services and to replace the existing suppliers and internal resources. Our team was a proactive partner who identified opportunities for improvement, simplified systems and brought everything in-house, helping to keep Sandstone’s network at peak performance and provide stability for the business.
Charing Cross Housing Association – Migrating On-Premise to the Cloud
Charing Cross Housing Association engaged Bridgeall to help them modernise their on-premise IT infrastructure. Bridgeall helped migrate key applications to the cloud and make a raft of security improvements across their IT infrastructure to better support hybrid working employees.
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 – 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.