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I find these days, we are in a way different place with what councils, Housing Associations and charities etc, are looking for in integrated housing systems, (the classic HMS). Trends I am seeing are a look to offerings being cloud hosted, browser based and particularly a trend to seek to have ‘more eggs in one basket’. That's the foundation for the more sexy stuff, the chatbots , plumbers equipped with jet-packs and AI.
Days of the third-party contractor, DLO, Asset Management, Gas servicing/compliance Solution, CRM, seem ever more numbered and there is still a perception that integration is still a major gotcha. More of the newer HMS’s have better quality modules and integration less of a worry, if its all in the same application and database. Many sites are moving or have moved already away from Citrix farms, Terminal Services and looking after their own data centres.
On the Cloud and Browser question, it looks like that argument has already been had, done and dusted with a smaller number of suppliers monopolising the offerings. We know who they are, but there’s the one that was already in a browser, one rewritten totally from scratch, one retrofitted and everyone else promising or rushing to ‘catch up’. The new solutions (Ian and Simon, you know who I am thinking of) that have emerged in the last few years have all been designed as Cloud/browser from the start and slowly eating the lunch of some of the established players, particularly at the lower end of the market. You sometimes get a finance system thrown in too, if its useful to you.
Pretty much most recent procurements have gone to one of these, apart from some of the more adventurous organisations, selecting Salesforce or Microsoft D365. The policy allows some surety of having a platform with hopefully a 10 or 15 year life.Moving an established legacy HMS, to being browser based is no mean feat, as others have learned. £10m spent economically in Vietnam, Eastern Europe or India and perhaps 4+ years on, does not guarantee an instant winner.
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| Some of the main HMS players circa 2010 onwards, represented by their freebies |
As we know, web based applications can work well on tablets etc out in the field, helping staff to be more mobile, capturing information as close to its source as possible. Variety of devices that can be used, is also attractive, in contrast to the way that laptops requiring Citrix connections, quickly become rests for A4 pads, with notes taken back to be re-typed into a system later, double entered.
With that backdrop, even with a significant customer base, it would be a brave supplier to look to buck the trend. So it was very surprising this week to hear of one of the larger suppliers, informing its customer base that it was pulling its replacement browser offering and concentrating resources on its legacy fat-client HMS product V4.
Due to ‘customer feedback’, Aareon UK are pulling their new replacement upgrade browser solution, (strap-line “QL Yuneo, it's all about YU and your future”). While many customers mid-term on contracts are not going anywhere soon, perhaps rolling annual term ones, may take this opportunity now to take stock. (as at May 2023, there were just two articles on their site, still referencing Yuneo )
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Aareon do have operations in social housing across Europe and in theory could take a new tack and re-purpose a solution, more economically from perhaps Germany or Sweden. Regulation in each country is problematic however, even here in the UK, across England, Scotland & Wales. So customisation costs would likely be high. Alternatively, they could buy up one of the ‘young pretenders’ and re-badge.
It will be interesting to see what happens next with this repositioning. Some procurement decisions might be revisited on the back of this. Its always surprising to me how little knowledge some landlords/providers have at times, on the current marketplace. Subscribe to our blog here on this link, to always catch the latest news on whats happening in the sector.
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