12 Successful Months Meeting the Challenges of Covid-19

It would have been impossible to predict what would happen over the past 12 months.  Oxford Data Consultancy had to take drastic steps along with most other businesses just to maintain the level of service our customers expect.  This has involved staff working from home, something that was prepared ahead of Boris Johnson announcing the […]

Phoenix Community Homes join ODC’s Managed Service

Phoenix Community Housing have more than 6,000 homes in the Lewisham wards of Bellingham, Whitefoot and Downham in London, and have taken out a Managed Service with ODC.  The first task will be to migrate their GIS over to ESRI’s Arc Online. Phoenix are one of 27 social housing providers benefitting from ODC’s GIS Managed […]

Interactive Covid Map Updated With Latest Tier Information

Good news to hear the Lockdown is ending next week. Just the unknown as to which tier you will be in! More importantly which tier each of your properties will be in and also where your staff live! ODC’s Covid Map has been updated to give a detailed breakdown for each Tier in each of […]

Free Webinar-The Benefits of GIS Mapping to Social Housing Providers

If you are a Social Housing Professional this is a great opportunity to find out the many benefits GIS offers to social housing.  Presenting we have Social Housing Professionals from Cairn Housing Association, Thirteen Group, Trafford Housing Trust, Walsall Housing Group and L&Q, talking about their own experiences, sharing what has worked for them. Regardless […]

Ancho to view their properties in GIS

Ancho are part of Cairn Housing Group based in Irvine, Scotland with just over 2000 properties. After seeing the work ODC completed for they wanted a simple way to display their properties on a map so ODC are capturing each of their properties and displaying on OS mapping in their cloud based GIS branded as […]

Housing Conferences Re-arranged

Due to the Coronavirus outbreak and subsequent social distancing and lock down, a number of housing shows have been postponed.  The Housing Finance Show in Liverpool and the CIH Housing Conference in Manchester were cancelled along with many other mass gatherings.  The organisers have been busy and have announced revised dates for both shows.  CIH […]

Business Continuity Planning Map to Manage Home Working

When the Coronavirus outbreak first started, it was clear that contingency plans should be put in place in the event of home working. This included mapping drive time areas from staff postcodes to assist with business planning. ODC offered to help any social housing provider get a quick overview and allow them to make decisions […]

Two Rivers Housing to Benefit From GIS

Two Rivers are a housing provider managing 4,149 properties providing social housing mainly across Gloucestershire. They came across ODC at the CIH Housing Show in Manchester 2019 and read some case studies from other housing associations that explained the benefit of having their Grounds Maintenance data available digitally. This was of particular interest as Two […]

COVID-19 UK CASES MAP

ODC have been busy supporting our Social Housing clients in the current situation we all find ourselves in. Many of our clients have requested a map to show the current UK cases and then supplementing this with information such as Staff Home Locations, Vulnerable Tenant locations and Travel Time analysis for all staff. This is […]

Smaller Housing Associations Conference next week.

On Wednesday 6th and Thursday 7th it is the Smaller Housing Associations Conference at London’s Olympia.  ODC will be exhibiting in a clear statement that says that GIS can be for the benefit of all social housing providers regardless of size.  With a number of clients having less than 4000 properties, ODC will be offering […]