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We just rolled out two features: 1) users can group projects in many flexible ways. This allows for regional or funding source based information sharing, even across customers. It is much more flexible than simple project hierarchical levels you may see in other human services software. 2) the ability for app users to retrieve older responses to Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) questions

A quick video showing how it looks to access our Big Data Warehouse to create reports. This video uses Tableau, since it is popular, but Power BI, R-Shiny, and other popular tools work just as well.

The presentation featured HLynk's newest Community Data Exchange features, as well as full HMIS feature-set completion status.

The latest HUD homelessness data standard is now built into HSLynk!

Update: HSLynk’s HMIS feature set is progressing rapidly, due in Q1 2020.  Once complete, you can add full HMIS compliance into your own products.

When HSLynk automatically matches client records, sometimes you may disagree with that match. These new APIs let you alter the match.

HSLynk now has a Golden View feature, providing a consistent, linked view of a client, updated by all the warehoused data sources.

This article shows how to query data using R's dplyr package to analyze US Dept of Housing and Urban Development Homeless Management Information System (HUD HMIS) data. HMIS is just one human services application of the HSLynk Platform as a Service, but homelessness is a large and growing problem, so let's use it for our example.