Digital Communities
Seamless collaboration
Designed to break down geographical, organisational, and departmental silos, it empowers professionals to easily connect, collaborate, and share best practice.
By pooling resources and preventing the duplication of effort, Digital Communities helps organisations improve overall productivity, enhance communication, and achieve substantial savings in both time and IT infrastructure costs.
A responsive service and reliable platform that has enabled digital communities, networks and product libraries to operate across departments, used by thousands of members and resulting in hundreds of meaningful interactions each day.
Connected communities
Frequently asked questions
Placecube is committed to keeping your data safe and operates under strict security standards maintaining ISO27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus accreditation. Digital Communities is UK-hosted by AWS in highly specified datacentres. The platform can be configured with a range of additional security features including MFA, membership approvals and expiry, data protection reports and revalidation of access credentials.
Yes, the platform is highly flexible and provides a range of integration capabilities to connect with existing systems. For example, it supports open APIs and a variety of Single Sign-On methods including Active Directory, SAML, OpenID Connect and social login via Google, Facebook and LinkedIn. It also offers out-of-the-box integrations with tools such as Google Drive, SharePoint, and Office365.
SaaS stands for Software-as-a-Service, which means that Digital Communities is fully hosted, managed, and delivered over the internet directly to your web browser. Instead of purchasing expensive server hardware, managing physical data centers, or executing complex, risky manual software upgrades, your organisation essentially rents a secure, cloud-native software environment. Placecube handles the end-to-end technical infrastructure, including server scaling, continuous database backups, performance optimisation, and regular security patching.
The commercial and practical benefits of this model are significant. Our SaaS subscription model features all-inclusive pricing with no hidden fees, meaning you will never face unexpected costs for high transaction volumes, growing visitor numbers, or community-led partnership projects. Furthermore, we manage the continuous deployment of new platform features and security patches directly into your User Acceptance Testing (UAT) environment first. This allows your internal teams to thoroughly preview and test updates with complete peace of mind before they are pushed live to your users.
Yes, we would welcome the opportunity to show you the platform in action.
When you request a demonstration, our product specialists will coordinate a tailored walkthrough session to show you both the intuitive administrative interfaces and the end-user collaboration and social features.
Contact our team today to schedule your custom Digital Communities demonstration.
Case studies
North Northamptonshire Council (NNC), a Digital Place subscriber, undertook a strategic project with Placecube to develop an end-to-end Blue Badge Application Management system. The council commissioned the solution to replace its aging Blue Badge system, which was scheduled for deprecation.
The Police Digital Service (PDS), in partnership with Placecube, created a knowledge sharing platform designed to facilitate collaboration within the policing sector. Police forces and their partners are enabled to share research, best practice and work together on projects.
Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils (B&MS) collaborated on a significant digital transformation initiative to rebuild and elevate the user experience of their critical housing services website.
Knowledge Hub (khub.net) is an open digital platform for public service collaboration and knowledge exchange. It provides free or low-cost spaces and tools to over 5,000 UK and international organisations across central and local government, health, education, housing, police, fire services, charities and many more.
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