Soho HA chooses Kypera for Housing Management System

Published by Doug Sarney for Kypera Limited in Housing and also in Communities

Kypera Housing has been chosen by Soho Housing Association as the Housing Management System to underpin the London-based, 1000 unit housing provider’s core business. Kypera Housing was selected over other housing management systems for ease of use, modern technology, customer care and cost-savings.

Soho HA has been a Kypera customer for over seven years through their use of Kypera Financials and is currently replacing their existing housing system with Kypera Housing during the first quarter of 2012.

"Our primary reasons for moving our housing management to Kypera were the great levels of customer service that we have enjoyed through using Kypera Financials coupled with a very modern housing system that is quick and easy to use" commented Carmen Clarke, Housing Manager at Soho. "We already have a strong relationship with Kypera and we know that they are large enough to provide us with great levels of service and support whilst being small enough to know our business and really care about Soho".

Kypera Housing was evaluated against other systems and came out on top in terms of ease of use, the ability to enter and retrieve information quickly and the modern look that is familiar to users of Microsoft systems. Kypera Housing is also expected to save Soho around £16,000 in software licensing and maintenance costs over the next five years as well as giving the association the best system longevity on account of being built using latest .NET technologies.

Joe Chambers, Chief Executive, Soho HA added: "Another reason why we chose Kypera is that it is built on a platform which will allow us to develop our IT offer further in the future to provide a modern, customer-centric service".

The 36 day implementation project will begin in January 2012 and the system will be live in April 2012. This includes data migration from the legacy system, an upgrade of Kypera Financials with integration to the new housing system and training for all staff.

Craig Brock, Kypera's Business Services Director said "We are delighted to announce that Soho HA is joining the growing number of housing providers moving to Kypera Housing and are looking forward to extending our relationship with Soho. Recent advances in Kypera Housing have been independently reviewed to prove that technically modern, comprehensive housing management functionality is now available at a reasonable cost".

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