Thames Valley Housing Association has chosen 1st Touch mobile technology for inspection operatives visiting its housing sites. The mobile solution, which replaces a paper based system, combines back office management with the latest PDA technology. Inspection reports can now be submitted on site electronically, saving considerable time and raising efficiency levels.
Established in 1966, Thames Valley [...]

Knowsley Housing Trust (KHT) is a progressive, not-for-profit, independent Housing Association, based in Knowsley, a vibrant and dynamic urban area of Merseyside, managing over 13,000 high quality homes at affordable rents. KHT has a range of housing stock which includes; houses, bungalows, sheltered housing schemes, as well as low rise and multi-storey accommodation. KHT’s commercial [...]

Leading enterprise-mobile technology group, 1st Touch (www.1sttouch.com), has signed a reciprocal partnership agreement with Octavia Software Solutions (www.octavia.uk.com/), enabling both companies to sell the other’s products. Under the terms of the agreement, 1st Touch has integrated its market leading mobile workforce solution with the new .Net based version of OSKA; Octavia’s acclaimed Supporting People application. [...]

Herefordshire Housing Ltd. has chosen enterprise-mobile, workforce management software from 1st Touch (www.1sttouch.com) to support the management of its responsive repairs service and trades colleagues across five thousand homes in the county.
1st Touch, which integrates fully with Herefordshire Housing’s existing Orchard Housing Management system, replaces the previous paper based job system by sending electronic job [...]

Stevenage Homes, the Arms Length Management Organisation (ALMO) of Stevenage Borough Council has implemented a mobile workforce technology system for its responsive repairs operatives, from 1st Touch (www.1sttouch.com).
Following the implementation of the mobile solution, the latest inspection by the Audit Commission led to Stevenage Homes being awarded a “2 Star Promising” rating. Stevenage Homes feels [...]

Europe’s leading enterprise mobile workforce technology company has achieved Microsoft Gold Certified partner status for ISV Software Solutions Competency.
The Microsoft ISV Software Solutions Competency recognizes the skill and focus that certified partners bring to a particular solution set. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners that have obtained this competency have a successful record of developing and marketing [...]

A new system to improve the way housing repairs are organised is to be set up by affordable housing provider, Tor Homes. The housing company’s 3,000 tenants will benefit from the system which aims to give tenants a specific date and time when someone will call to fix a repair. It will also reduce [...]

Leading enterprise mobile workforce technology group, 1st Touch (www.1sttouch.com) has signed a partnership agreement with software and services group ROCC (www.rocc.co.uk). As a result of the partnership, 1st Touch has fully integrated their widely acclaimed Mobile Workforce system with ROCC’s leading Uniclass Social Housing solution to deliver a best of breed management solution for social [...]

Leading enterprise mobile technology group, 1st Touch (www.1sttouch.com), has confirmed the appointment of Robert Dent as CEO. Dent joins 1st Touch from Governance, Risk and Compliance software company Achiever Business Solutions; a Sword Group company.
As CEO and a shareholder of Achiever, Dent had been responsible for the company’s sale to Sword in 2006. Prior to [...]

Leading, European, enterprise-mobile technology group, 1st Touch (www.1sttouch.com), has launched a new enterprise application platform that can create, manage and synchronise mobile applications across an organisation.
The highly-scalable system is aimed at any company that needs to control and support the activities of field-based or remote operatives such as salespeople, knowledge workers, service engineers or field [...]