As of 2018, there were 1.6 million council provided homes in the UK, and approximately 60% of those homes are owned by housing associations. There is a government-led drive for housing associations to build more homes, both as a way to provide housing for those in need and for those making the step on the ladder towards home ownership. But with private rentals having a better reputation for customer service, housing associations must improve the quality and safety of homes, and handle complaints and issues more effectively.
Topics:
PowerApps,
Microsoft Power BI,
Microsoft Power Platform,
housing
Microsoft Canvas Apps are one of the available apps within the Microsoft Power Apps suite. Microsoft Power Apps has been around for a few years now, but Microsoft are constantly improving and adapting it to meet ever-changing business needs. Microsoft defines Power Apps "as a suite of apps, services, connectors and data platform that provides a rapid application development environment to build custom apps for your business needs".
In short, Power Apps gives users who have little technical knowledge the ability to build apps from scratch with little or no code required.
Topics:
PowerApps,
Microsoft Power Platform,
Canvas Apps
In December 2020, Homes England reported that between 1st April and 30th September that year, the number of housing starts was the lowest since 2012-2013, at 11,313 homes. Housing completions had also decreased to 11,358 houses - the lowest since 2015-2016. The reduction of both starts and completions is partly due to the coronavirus pandemic, which caused significant complications for housebuilding activity. Affordable housing made up 79% of housing starts in this period, which has decreased by 32% from the previous year – putting the number of affordable homes at its lowest since 2017-2018. Housing associations are under pressure to provide affordable housing for those in need, and the pressure is greater during the current period of economic uncertainty, furlough, and redundancy.
Topics:
Microsoft Dynamics CRM,
Micrsoft Dynamics 365,
PowerApps,
Microsoft Power Platform,
Microsoft,
Homebuilder,
housing associations,
virtual agent,
enquiry portals,
housing
On the 19th January, the Google App Maker product was shut down due to low-usage. App Maker data that is stored within Cloud SQL is safe and remains unchanged, and it will still follow the policies your GCP account established. Depending on whether your apps are active or inactive, there are different actions you need to take.
Topics:
PowerApps,
Microsoft Power BI,
Microsoft Power Platform
A recent task presented to us by one of our customers requires icons to be added into a list view to demonstrate risk categories. The aim of this was to make the view more user friendly, and for high risk issues to stand out. This blog post will show you how it is done.
Topics:
PowerApps,
JavaScript,
Guide,
Icons,
List View,
How-to,
Step by Step,
Help
As tech forges forward at a brake neck speed, with new innovations bursting on to the scene seemly every other day, the pressure on IT departments is rapidly increasing to keep up with digital growth in the work place.
Topics:
PowerApps
Microsoft’s ‘PowerApps’ allows your organisation to innovate faster by creating simple, easy to use business apps with a point-and-click approach to app design. Long gone are the days of manually writing each line of code and spending hours of your precious time debugging, only to discover that one rogue ‘;’ was the cause of all your problems. So, put down your ‘Coding for Dummies’ book and take a look at what Microsoft’s PowerApps has to offer.
Topics:
data,
IT Architecture,
Development,
microsoft dynamics 365,
PowerApps
