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UK housing associations

Faster finance system delivery for UK housing associations

We start from a design already live in UK social housing. Your team reviews what exists and decides the differences.

A design built from a blank page spends months documenting requirements every housing association shares. Starting from a live design leaves the project to work on what makes your organisation different.

Built on Oracle Fusion Cloud, using standard configuration.

Five accelerators

Each one replaces a step that usually starts from nothing.

1Requirements baseline from a livehousing association2Housing-aware data cleansing with achecklist3Configuration in about two weeks4Test scripts with anonymised housingdata5Cutover plan and playbook timed toyour financial year

Steps, in order:

  1. Requirements baseline from a live housing association
  2. Housing-aware data cleansing with a checklist
  3. Configuration in about two weeks
  4. Test scripts with anonymised housing data
  5. Cutover plan and playbook timed to your financial year
How we make it fast: five accelerators, from requirements to cutover
  1. Step 1

    A requirements baseline from a live housing association

    Your team reviews a list already implemented elsewhere and marks only what differs. Each difference maps to a change in a working design.

  2. Step 2

    Housing-aware data cleansing

    We profile your data with housing-aware rules and list every exception. Your team works through the checklist and fixes exceptions at source.

  3. Step 3

    Configuration in about two weeks

    Configuration tools apply the design after design sign-off, so the build is a matter of weeks.

  4. Step 4

    Test scripts with anonymised housing data

    Testers start from proven scripts and anonymised housing data, then add their own.

  5. Step 5

    A cutover plan and playbook

    A tested plan and playbook set out every step, with go-live timed to your financial year.

Blank page or live design

The steps are the same in number. What changes is where your team spends its time.

Blank pageLive designGather allrequirementsWrite design fromscratchBuild by handWrite testscriptsTestReview list andmark changesChange the livedesignConfigure withtoolsAdapt provenscriptsTest

Blank page, in order:

  1. Gather all requirements
  2. Write design from scratch
  3. Build by hand
  4. Write test scripts
  5. Test

Live design, in order:

  1. Review list and mark changes
  2. Change the live design
  3. Configure with tools
  4. Adapt proven scripts
  5. Test
A live design moves the effort from writing requirements to deciding differencesSteps only, not to scale. Your decisions on chart of accounts, approvals and data still set the pace.

The delivery route

Design, build, integration and data migration overlap wherever the dependencies allow. Approval gates keep the overlap under control, and each gate is your decision.

  1. Phase 1

    Discovery and design

    Workshops run on a working system. You review the live design and mark what differs.

    Gate: Design sign-off

  2. Phase 2

    Build and data

    Configuration, interfaces and mock data loads run alongside each other.

    Gate: Finance signs off each reconciled data load

  3. Phase 3

    Test

    System and user acceptance testing with realistic data.

    Gate: User acceptance testing signed off

  4. Phase 4

    Cutover

    A rehearsed runbook. Opening balances are approved before anyone transacts.

    Gate: Go or no-go against agreed criteria

  5. Phase 5

    Hypercare

    Support beside your team through the first month-ends.

    Gate: Agreed success measures met

The delivery route: five phases, each closed by a decision your team makesPhases overlap where dependencies allow. Order only, not to scale.

Your decisions still drive the timeline: chart of accounts, approval limits and data readiness. A reused design gives those decisions a starting point.

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