Amicus Horizon, a Registered Social Landlord with a stock of over 28,000 properties, has chosen to mobilise up to 150 inspection surveyors and housing officers with 1st Touch mobile workforce software.  The teams involved will be pre and post inspections, stock condition surveyors, estate management, the tenancy services department, gas and electric inspectors and the CASA Supporting People operation.

1st Touch was chosen by Amicus Horizon as the company offers a wide range of modules with proven efficiency and productivity benefits which could readily be seen in action across numerous other social housing organisations.

In addition, key integrations that Amicus Horizon required had already been developed by 1st Touch, including one for Amicus Horizon's back-office - Orchard housing management system. 

Robert Dent, CEO of 1st Touch comments

"The swift collection and processing of information enables Amicus Horizon to raise their already enviable service levels even further, which is great news for their tenants"

Organised by the  Northern Housing Consortium, MOBex offers the opportunity to keep up to date with the latest mobile working solutions for Social Housing providers. Delegate admission is free with lunch and refreshments included.

1st Touch will be showcasing the complete range of integrated mobile solutions and sharing information on live Social Housing customer implementations, so please come along to meet us.

Dates and Venues:

14th July 2011 - SW Stadium, Wigan

19th July 2011 - Chelsea FC, London

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There is a lot of interest in Android-type solutions and yet in a number of significant areas they just do not offer some of the features found in major operating systems such as Windows Mobile 6.5.

Strikingly, not everybody realises this at a user level but it does seem to have been picked up by some industry analysts, with Gartner commenting, 'Choose Windows Mobile over Android for ruggedized handsets'

So, the battle-lines between Windows and Android are evolving and 1st Touch, positioned at the middle of the fray, throws down a gauntlet to Android.

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