Accelerating Cloud Transformation in Social Housing
Social housing providers are looking for creative ways to ramp up their affordable housing growth plans against a backdrop of reduced budgets and greater government austerity.
During the year of staying home to stay healthy, having a safe and secure home has never been so important.
For many though, accessing quality, affordable housing remains a challenge.
A challenge that, due to an inevitable COVID-19 induced global recession, is likely to peak in the coming months and years.
Incline-IT, in partnership with AWS, are actively supporting social housing providers to deliver against their mission.
Through driving innovation, saving costs and moving faster, housing associations can start to bridge the gap between the supply and demand for affordable housing.
Incline-IT Partner with AWS
During the year of staying home to stay healthy, having a safe and secure home has never been so important. For many though, accessing quality, affordable housing remains a challenge. A challenge that, due to an inevitable COVID-19 induced global recession, is likely to peak in the coming months and years.
In response to this heightening crisis, social housing providers seek creative ways to ramp up their affordable housing growth plans against a backdrop of reduced budgets and greater government austerity to deliver more with less.
Incline-IT, in partnership with AWS, are actively supporting social housing providers to deliver against their mission.
Through driving innovation, saving costs, and moving faster, housing associations can start to bridge the gap between the supply and demand for affordable housing by maximising their investment into housing development programmes, as well as improving the quality and delivery speed of services to existing residents.
Connecting People with Affordable Housing
AWS Partner Network (APN) and Incline-IT are working with social housing providers Arches Housing and Housing Plus Group to connect those in need with affordable housing.
Arches Housing highlighted several workloads at risk due to a reliance on staff and external partners to deliver hardware support for their on-premises infrastructure.
They used Incline-IT to migrate these workloads to AWS in three weeks with no effect on critical services.
This was important as staff began working remotely full time due to COVID-19. Arches was able to continue to operate effectively and deliver services to their most vulnerable customers at the height of the pandemic.
Housing Plus Group used the cloud to enable a more agile working strategy. Housing Plus Group has over 800 staff across 45 sites with a significant care and support operation that helps the elderly and others with disabilities or health conditions live independent and fulfilling lives.
The organisation requires strong network connectivity and a flexible infrastructure to deliver such services to customers and provide access to the applications staff need to operate effectively.
"We devised a clear IT and digital strategy but needed the right services and partners to enable the delivery of it. Working in partnership with Incline-IT and AWS enabled us to realise our strategy and allow IT to become an enabler of change. This allows us to focus more on the business and innovate with new technologies such as analytics and Internet of Things (IoT). This will help us realise efficiencies and drive service improvement to our core customers.”
Housing Plus Group is now realising the benefits of being fully cloud-enabled.
“Given that most advice was ‘Housing Management Software does not work on the cloud,’ we deployed a new software-defined networking in a wide area network (SD-WAN) and created a staggered migration path for the applications. We also created 400 Amazon workspaces to replace a legacy Citrix farm. These were set up as pay as you go and scale up and down as required to optimize costs."
About Incline-IT
Incline-IT has delivered multiple cloud migrations and on-boarded 14 new customers in the last 12 months.
Investing in AWS has enabled the company to deliver these mission-critical projects at speed and scale.
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