Elevate Your Community: Discover Your Digital Place

Connect, collaborate & innovate. Your community, digitally transformed.

Your community deserves a digital home that fosters seamless collaboration and open knowledge exchange. Digital Place for Communities is that home. It's a secure, scalable, and responsive platform designed to bring together disparate organisations and people, transcending departmental, organisational, IT, geographical, and even language boundaries.

What Can Your Digital Place for Communities Do?

  • Effortless Community Creation: Launch new communities, teams, and user groups with just a few clicks.
  • Global Reach & Integration: Works across platforms and integrates seamlessly with Microsoft, Google, and Active Directory.
  • Flexible & Scalable: Mobile-responsive and built to scale for hundreds of thousands of users.
  • Intelligent Discoverability: Configurable, contextual enterprise search, recommendations, tagging, and categorisation ensures your knowledge is always at your fingertips.
  • Powerful Collaboration Tools: Foster engagement with blogs, discussions, libraries, real-time document collaboration, and polls.
  • Streamlined Communication: Direct messaging, email notifications, and announcements keep everyone in the loop.
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The Benefits Are Clear: Drive Productivity, Ignite Innovation

  • Boost Productivity: Easily share knowledge across systems, teams, and networks, reducing redundant work.
  • Connect People & Knowledge: Bridge distances and eliminate silos, gathering all your valuable knowledge assets in one accessible place.
  • Save Time & Money: Actively reuse proven knowledge assets, avoiding unnecessary development and travel.
  • Enhance Engagement: Foster better interactions between individuals, groups, communities, employees, partners, and suppliers.
  • Accelerate Digital Transformation: Built on Liferay’s open-source Digital Experience Platform, allowing for rapid deployment and customisation.

Break down barriers and build stronger bonds

Trusted by Public Service Communities Everywhere

Digital Place for Communities powers Knowledge Hub, a thriving open knowledge exchange platform for over 120,000 public service professionals across 5,000 organisations and 80 countries. Also built with Digital Place for Communities, the Police Digital Service (PDS) operate a large knowledge-sharing platform, accredited to Official-Sensitive status by the Home Office. Other platforms powered by Digital Place for Communities include the National Security Strategic Investment Fund (NSSIF) and the Government People Group Engagement Hub.

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Why Placecube?

For over 20 years, Placecube has been co-creating open platforms with and for the public sector. We believe in making digital government more affordable, leveraging open standards and open-source flexibility, and reusing "cube components" to accelerate transformation. We are the UK's preeminent Liferay Service Partner and live by the core principle of "Doing the right thing."

Security & Privacy You Can Trust

We are committed to keeping your data safe. Our platform operates from SOC-1/ISAE-3402/SOC-2/SOC-3 compliant AWS datacentres in the UK, maintaining ISO27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus accreditation. Your data is encrypted, regularly backed up, and our Liferay DXP software undergoes frequent penetration testing. We are an ICO-registered data controller and adhere to GDPR and Data Protection Act requirements.

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Ready to Transform Your Community's Digital Experience?