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This, from latest Housing Tech Mag is interesting. A contract for Castleton with Clanmil, N.Ireland, who are in fact a 4600 unit association, who followed it through development and waited for it rather than buy other suppliers' options. And they will be adding further solution(s). There are 800 - 1000 under 1000 unit associations not previously targeted by Castleton, and from this it appears it is also of interest to some of those occupying a middle ground.
CLANMIL SIGNS UP FOR CASTLETON’S COMMUNITY SOFTWARE
Castleton Technology has won a five-year contract with Clanmil Ireland to implement its latest cloud-based housing management system, Castleton Community.
Castleton said that its Community software is designed for housing providers with fewer than 1,000 properties who typically struggle with capacity issues as well as limited IT infrastructure investment.
Jimmy Rogers, sales and marketing director, Castleton Technology, said, “We have selected essential modules from our main suite of housing software and created ‘lite’ versions suitable for the needs of smaller housing providers. And while customers might start with this lite version of our solutions, Castleton Community is fully scalable to allow more modules to be added as and when needed.”
Michael Haynes, chief executive, Clanmil Ireland, said, “We reviewed the options on the market at a time when Castleton Community was in its development stages. We were keen to see the idea grow as it offers the ideal set of solutions for our growing organisation.
“We chose Castleton because of their established housing solution, which is well known in the housing sector. This, plus the launch of their Community software means it was a perfect fit for an organisation of our size.”
The first phase of Clanmil Ireland’s implementation will cover the main housing management system, Castleton EDRM lite and Agile lite (Castleton’s mobile working solution), with the second phase to include Castleton’s Financials software.
Haynes said, “Looking at our internal business case, we quickly realised that Castleton could give us an excellent return on investment and the solution will also let us transform our business to meet the challenges of a digital age.”
There's also separately a big piece in the magazine about Castleton .Digital, the new tenant facing solution, but nothing new there beyond what's been posted and on the website - but the punchline for customers and investors is "Nobody else is offering anything like this in the social housing sector. It’s a completely different take on the flat representations of data we’re used to, offeringering greater functionality, exibility and interactivity.”
Looking back James Massey also said, in relation to .Digital -
" It has enormous potential and we will be putting great force and energy into driving it forward. Castleton.DIGITAL is an absolute game-changer – not only for us, but for the social housing sector.”
An insight- giving article. Castleton Community was only on general release this month, and the company will quickly be in the fortunate position of having that all important referenceability in this close-knit sector, available from Clanmill. The article from the trade publication demonstrates the growth potential of that particular product, with customers adding modules as required to what must be an affordable basic entry option for those possibly previously overlooked associations who must digitalise, but with relatively modest IT budgets. As I have mentioned previously, from a financial perspective I expect the full impact of Castleton's recent products, and Managed Services migration, to make itself known on plan during the next financial year as an addition to ongoing cross selling and the cessation of mobile licence fees.