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We finish off a busy week at Oneserve with the news that a Solar storm won’t be here for quite some time – but it might be big, a new white paper by Service Management Online tells how companies approach technology. We will all be pre-ordering an invisibility cloak as soon as we can and we take a look at some summer gadgets. ...

Date added: Friday 14th June 2013

Having released Oneserve 8, a major update to our software, towards the end of last year, we’ve continued to progressively improve the rich functionality, usability and performance our software....

Date added: Thursday 13th June 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013

Here at Oneserve we’ve been looking through our calendar at upcoming events and thought we would share some that might be of interest. We continually support our customers with mobile workforce management, now it’s our turn to get organised!...

Date added: Wednesday 12th June 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013

June has arrived and brought with it some long awaited sunshine. This week’s roundup looks at the PwC report which highlights the growth of SaaS, Oneserve’s Simon gives us the low down on the Green Deal, researchers claim to have developed a charger that can hack into an Apple device within a minute plus we join the BYOD debate and feature in Housing Technology magazine....

Date added: Friday 7th June 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013

Coming off the back of a blissful bank holiday, it’s the weekly Oneserve news round up. This week: an original Apple creates a storm in the auction rooms, London has begun the search for the next big start up, we take a look at BYOD, and Google is broadening its boundaries....

Date added: Friday 31st May 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013

This week the government published a report into the progress of 191 major projects worth a total of nearly £354bn. A total of eight projects in the report were flagged with a red status, suggesting major problems with delivering on time and/or on budget. ...

Date added: Thursday 30th May 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013

Last week the Oneserve sales development team spent a very enjoyable evening at the prestigious Point, Lancashire Cricket Club, surrounded by industry leaders striving to create innovative solutions to the world of community housing. They were of course celebrating the Housing Excellence Awards 2013...

Date added: Wednesday 29th May 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013

The BYOD phenomenon continues with Gartner predicting the future, we look at the increasing number of DLO organisations in the South West and iCITY is the final jewel in the crown of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Our very own Simon Jones reports back from this year’s Housing Excellence Awards....

Date added: Friday 24th May 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013

This week in the Oneserve news roundup, David Cameron wants us to all get online in the big digital skills boost, the Oneserve business development team have been out and about, and hackers steal a whopping $45m from global ATMs in an unprecedented online heist. We’re also recruiting to the Oneserve technical team. ...

Date added: Friday 17th May 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013

This week brings the Housing Excellence Awards. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the annual awards highlight and reward those leading the way in the social housing sector by providing a better standard of housing for thousands of tenants....

Date added: Monday 13th May 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013

Members of the Oneserve team are heading to the Birmingham NEC this week to attend the Service Management Expo, which this year forms part of UBM Live’s Facilities Show. ...

Date added: Monday 13th May 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013

We spent the bank holiday weekend relaxing in the sun but we were excited to return to work on Tuesday as three new clients went live. In addition to this our new supply chain management solution Oneserve2Oneserve (O2O) is now being used by Vivark. SaaS users appear to be a happy bunch with 91% reporting that their solutions met or exceeded expectations; we also heard that British children may be spending a staggering £30.9m a month on apps without their parents’ permission. Plus we talk the Green Deal and how it will effect workforce scheduling. ...

Date added: Friday 10th May 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013

Here at Oneserve we believe in transparency and take customer feedback seriously. We know that a simple adjustment or fix can make all the difference to the people using our field service management system on a daily basis. So we listen closely to our customers, continually develop our software and deliver enhancements on an ongoing basis....

Date added: Wednesday 8th May 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013

Number 10 decided this was the week to get tech savvy, we share our knowledge and add new user guides to our Knowledge Base, plus Simon Jones reports back from the CIH South West Event and what better place to browse the web than a shoe shop.Twitter @ No10, mobile tools, SW housing event, Schuh Wi-Fi...

Date added: Friday 3rd May 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013

We recently launched our new supply chain management solution Oneserve2Oneserve (O2O), designed to enable transparent collaboration between our customers, their contractors and subcontractors....

Date added: Friday 3rd May 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013

Oneserve has launched new tools through its user-focused Knowledge Base designed to support mobile workforce management....

Date added: Tuesday 30th April 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013

St George’s Day was celebrated in a small way this week but according to a poll 73% want it to be made a public holiday. Some of the Oneserve team enjoyed the Chartered Institute of Housing Event in sunny Devon whilst Apple announced a fall in profits for the first time in a decade. Elsewhere a campaign was launched urging us to ‘Ban Killer Robots’ and we all agree that customer experience is central to service management....

Date added: Friday 26th April 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013

This week Oneserve’s Managing Director, Lucien Wynn, and Simon Jones from the business development team will be attending the Chartered Institute of Housing’s South West Housing Event in Torquay. ...

Date added: Monday 22nd April 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013

This year seems to be flying by and we find ourselves half-way through April already. With Easter having just passed it seems Google took inspiration, announcing this week they’ve got our messages from the afterlife all sewn up. Elsewhere, Oneserve customer Gilmartins got a big nomination, China and the US joined forces in the fight against cyber crime and we took a peak at big IT changes ahead for the NHS....

Date added: Friday 19th April 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013

We’re extremely proud to support Gilmartins, nominated as Contractor of the Year at the 2013 Housing Excellence Award...

Date added: Tuesday 16th April 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013

Whilst we are still awaiting some spring sunshine, it appears that some may be leaving it too late to migrate to Windows 7. Elsewhere, Bitcoiners became a bit richer, we presented our SMART way to look for new service management software. And all around the world people responded to the death of Margaret Thatcher, some in their own unique ways....

Date added: Friday 12th April 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013

Having welcomed in the continued cold-snap that is April, it seems that welfare reforms are also receiving a frosty welcome. There’s certainly a lot of talk on the subject and we felt we couldn’t ignore it by joining the debate around efficiency. We learned all about the UK’s newest data centre and you may not have noticed but we are in the midst of the biggest cyber attack in history. Plus we roundup some techie April Fools pranks. ...

Date added: Friday 5th April 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013

It is Easter weekend so we are rounding up the news a day early this week. And it’s all about UK innovation and life changing technologies as Google launch their Global Impact Challenge for UK charities and we celebrate the pioneers of the internet and web as they are announced winners of the first Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. Oneserve’s MD shared some interesting report findings in the week, plus we heard that a 17 year old school boy from London became an internet millionaire selling his app company to Yahoo....

Date added: Thursday 28th March 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013

In a week that has seen a record £75m raised for Comic Relief, we have also learned that News International are jumping onto the cloud in a big way and whilst we were running through the five must-haves for service management software, Microsoft received a £485m fine. In this roundup, our own Louise also takes a look back at our blog series on tech influences on the Oneserve team....

Date added: Thursday 21st March 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013

This week the winners of first Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering were announced at the Royal Academy of Engineering in central London....

Date added: Thursday 21st March 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013

In its annual report ahead of this month’s budget, the CBI has asked Chancellor George Osbourne for a set of measures to kick start growth. It is calling for 50,000 affordable homes to be built, incentives for refurbishing empty homes and the housing guarantee scheme to be extended to all types of housing....

Date added: Monday 18th March 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013

It’s been a week in which even the Vatican has seized social technology to announce the new pope – with the first papal tweet reading “HABEMUS PAPAM FRANCISCUM” ("Habemus Papam" translates roughly as "We have a pope"). Elsewhere, 3D printed skulls have become a prosthetic reality, SaaS is still number one, YouTube took on Spotify and we said a fond farewell to our gadgets and gizmos blog series. ...

Date added: Friday 15th March 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013

We roundup this week with news from London’s Data Centre WorldExpo 2013 and Tesco is to launch three new digital entertainment businesses by the end of the year. We also turn back the clocks to reflect on pioneering tech from the 1980s as the iconic Motorola 8000x turns 30 and in our great gadgets and gizmos blog series we remember Jet Pac for the ZX Spectrum....

Date added: Friday 8th March 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013

Here at Oneserve we’re celebrating today’s 30th anniversary of the release of the iconic ‘brick’ Motorola 8000x. ...

Date added: Wednesday 6th March 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013

February has flown by and it’s been a fantastic month for Oneserve. This week we’ve seen some great tech being launched at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, we add to our Knowledge Base plus there’s been lots of talk about the disappearance of Interflora from Google searches. If that’s not enough, we talk about the stylish KitchedAid in our blog series....

Date added: Friday 1st March 2013
Latest updated: Friday 14th June 2013