Aareon QL (formerly known as QL Housing) is the second-largest housing management platform in the UK market. Recently acquired by Aareon Group, the platform is undergoing a cloud migration from legacy on-premises deployments. During this transition, some housing associations operate hybrid architectures where tenant data spans both on-prem and Azure-hosted environments, creating inconsistent data governance. GDPR compliant with UK data residency options.
Aareon QL stores tenant financial records including rent accounts, service charges, and benefit claims alongside personal data. The platform's API gateway for third-party integrations (contractor portals, payment processors) expands the data-sharing surface. During cloud migration, data-in-transit between on-prem and Azure environments may traverse networks with varying encryption standards.