DASH

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DASH 6th Local Authority Conference
30th January 2007
Presented by James Primarolo - Sales
Manager Nigel Twiddy - IT Product Manager
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Who are Shaws?
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The DASH project Shaws
DASH work with landlords, tenants andLocal
Authorities to raise standards in housing.

• Standardisation

• Editorial Control

• Compliance

• Development of forms with extended functionality

• Forms on Disk - current delivery method

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What is Forms on Disk?

• Electronic forms software

• Personalised with logo and address

• Fillable fields

• Online Updates

• Helpdesk

• Conversion to PDF

• Conversion to Word?

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How do we interact with our customers?

• E-bulletins

• Mail

• Website

• Telephone

• Site visits / Training

• Liaison with case management companies
• - Flare/Authority, Northgate-M3, CAPS

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Integration with Case Management software

• All of the big three plus others now moving
  away as this saves them ongoing
  programming/development costs.

• Market is moving to making officers or council IT
  departments do the work using templates from Word
  or similar.

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More benefits for you from Shaws?

• Buy more groups - Environmental Health?
• Collectively develop forms
• Suggestions, problems or non Housing Act
  compliance issues, such as Health Safety or
  Data Protection Act
• Specials (Charnwood Gold Scheme)
• - Can we get your queries answered?
• - Shaw's Editorial Service is changing?
• Publish? We constantly look for new titles, and
  consider groups such as DASH key to discovering
  what needs to be clarified.
• Use it, get help using it, and think of it as
  your control software!!

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Shaws DASH

• Shaws provide an Editorial service.
• Shaws ensure the forms you use will work, and
  will stand legal testing.
• Shaws provide a benchmark for standardisation.
• Shaws need your feedback.
• Shaws are committed to supplying council officers
  with the working forms they require.