When you think of attending university, you often think of late nights, new friends, junk food, and hangovers. Unsurprisingly, most people who attended university refer to these years as some of the best years of their life. While universities don’t necessarily want to enhance the seemingly negative aspects of student life – after all, achieving a degree would typically be the main reason for attending university – enhancing the student experience leads to fiercely loyal graduates and alumni.
Topics: higher-education, university, alumni
The UK housing sector faces a sustainability challenge – achieving net zero for all greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. This task has now been set in law, making it a legal requirement for housing providers to work in unison with the government to decarbonise homes with improved insulation and the replacement of heating systems with ‘clean heat’ technologies.
Topics: Microsoft, housing associations, housing, Sustainability
Introducing, Crimson’s new Software Test Practice. The new department consists of professionally qualified Software Testers who work alongside Crimson’s Development Team.
Topics: software testing
Microsoft Teams was one of the fasting growing apps of the COVID-19 pandemic, adding 95 million users in 2020. With over 500,000 businesses and education institutions currently using Teams as their default messaging system, it now has over 145 million daily active users. Teams helps organisations to meet virtually, share files, and keep in touch while working remotely, all while minimising email build-ups. For many organisations, they couldn’t have survived the pandemic without Microsoft Teams.
Topics: collaboration and teamwork, modern workplace, microsoft teams
This release plan describes new features that will be released from April to September 2022.
Topics: Microsoft Power Platform
This release plan describes new features that will be released from April to September 2022.
Topics: Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Micrsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Dynamics, microsoft dynamics 365, Dynamics Update
Coronavirus restrictions now seem like a thing of the past, leaving the UK and the rest of the world to clear up the debris that the pandemic left behind. One of the most prominent aftereffects of covid-19 is the damage it had on the overall mental health of so many people. One mental health charity, Shout, saw a rise of 60 per cent in helpline texts from January and February 2021 compared to the same period in 2020. Loneliness has also increased since pre-pandemic levels, with one in 10 people saying they felt lonely in March 2020, compared with one in four in February 2021.
Topics: Micrsoft Dynamics 365, higher-education, student journey
Social housing tenants are set to face a rent increase in April 2022, which will cost an average of £200 a year per household. This price increase is accompanied by a soar in energy and food bills as the cost of living rises.
Topics: Micrsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Dynamics, microsoft dynamics 365, housing associations, housing, rent, Pivigo
Within the social housing sector, information management systems play a huge part in the overall satisfaction of both employees and customers (tenants). From property repairs and maintenance to rent accounts, the systems that manage this data are integral to the overall running of the association. This is what makes housing management systems so important. But the housing management system chosen across the company doesn’t have to manage every single part of the housing association, and more often than not, it doesn’t. While having multiple platforms or systems isn’t out of the ordinary in the social housing industry, having an integrated, joined-up view of tenants across all systems is.
Topics: Micrsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Dynamics, housing associations, housing
