11.7.2022

Foundation for Student Housing in the Helsinki Region (Hoas) – Procurement of ERP System

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We assisted the Foundation for Student Housing in the Helsinki Region (Hoas) in its procurement of a cloud-based ERP system, which is delivered, implemented and maintained by Visma Real Estate Oy, a Visma Group company. With its new ERP system, Hoas aims to, inter alia, expedite and facilitate the selection of tenants and renting out apartments as well as the preparation and handling of different kinds of service requests. The ERP system has a central role in fulfilling the strategic goals of Hoas and managing its real estate portfolio. Hoas owns 10,300 apartments in the Helsinki region and has over 18,000 students as tenants.

The Foundation for Student Housing in the Helsinki Region (Hoas) is a non-profit foundation founded in 1969. Hoas rents out, builds and maintains housing in the Helsinki region for students who are studying full time at schools of secondary and tertiary level education, as well as for international exchange students. Hoas works in cooperation with the student unions of the University of Helsinki and Aalto University, as well as 10 other university and polytechnic student unions.

Visma Real Estate Oy is a Finnish software company operating in the real estate sector. It develops the Tampuuri software and helps its customers to digitalise their property management processes. Visma Real Estate has offices in six locations around Finland and employs some 100 experts in total, 28 of which focus on developing Tampuuri. In 2021, Visma Real Estate had a turnover of EUR 14.6 million.

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