Placecube

Placecube is an innovative subscription-based software as a service provider that provides open and connected digital platforms to expedite its clients' digital transformation journey. Placecube’s product makes it easier for businesses to create digital services, integrate systems, and personalize user experiences.
==Key Profiles==
Jason Fahy, Chief Executive Officer: Jason brings over 30 years of commercial, operational and relationship management experience to the business and considers himself adept at building great teams. Jason's focus is developing and delivering on strategic aims alongside the Placecube Board and Leadership Team.
Doctor Gavin Beckett, Chief Product Officer: Gavin leads Placecube's product management and user experience design teams, working alongside customers to understand the problems they need to solve and collaborating with them to develop solutions in Placecube's Digital Place software as a service product, built on Liferay DXP. Digital Place offers a rapid way for organizations across the private sector, local public services, health, housing, and communities to adopt open standards and open source-based digital services, co-designed with customers, for reuse. Prior to joining Placecube, Gavin spent 20 years in UK local government, where in his roles as Chief Enterprise Architect and Chief Digital Officer he led the design and delivery of digital services to improve residents' and businesses' experiences.
Liz Copeland, Head of Customer Insight & Engagement: Liz supports clients through the set-up and implementation of Digital Place for Communities platforms, bringing over 15 years of experience in leading online collaboration and knowledge-sharing projects. Experienced supporting customers from across the public sector including the Cabinet Office, Local Government Association, Police Digital Service, Health Education England, Improvement Service for Scotland, and Historic England among others, and plays a key client liaison role. Liz collaborates with customers to understand their needs and requirements, helps them plan and develop their digital spaces, and advises them on how to get the best from digital knowledge-sharing and collaboration tools. Liz works with the Digital Place for Communities product team to develop and improve the product, ensuring client feedback and ideas are included in product development.
Adam Harris, Chief Customer Officer: As the Chief Customer Officer, he leads Placecube's customer-facing functions, including Implementation Services, Project Management, Customer Success, and Support Desk. Adam's primary focus is ensuring the entire customer lifecycle is engineered to deliver agreed success factors for the customer through collaborative planning, structured support and proactive partnership working. Prior to joining Placecube, Adam spent 18 years working in and around both Local and Central Government in both operational delivery and service/performance improvement roles.
Matt Fulford, Chief Technology Officer: Matt is responsible for Placecube's product architecture and development, including the technical roadmap. One of Matt's strengths is his ability to translate complex requirements into easy-to-understand solutions. He joined Placecube through its acquisition of PFIKS where he became an accomplished technical and solutions architect with comprehensive experience of designing, developing, and deploying architectures for portal and enterprise content management applications. He leads local and remote project teams to successfully deliver solutions of the highest quality, often in complex and challenging client environments.”
Katie Wright, Executive Sales Director: leads Placecube's sales team, working to grow the customer base of Placecube’s Digital Place; a suite of software as a service (SaaS) product, built on Liferay DXP. Prior to joining Placecube, Katie started her career as a policy researcher, specializing in domestic challenges felt most profoundly by Local Government. Her passion to help find solutions led her to a series of successful roles working for Suppliers in the public sector. With nearly 10 years of experience as Sales and Marketing Director, Katie is passionate about improving how suppliers and Councils engage to achieve the best possible outcomes for local residents.
==History==
Placecube, formerly MYGOV Limited, was founded in 2015 in Reading, United Kingdom, by Jason Fahy. The company was founded to acquire knowledge hub businesses and accelerate the digital transformation journeys of various government and non-profit organizations. Placecube is recognized for its Digital Place software-as-a-service offerings and works with open data and standards. These products were co-created with customers to reduce the time and expenses associated with digital transformation. Through the construction of Cubes, Placecube collaborates with and helps its customers to design, build, automate, and expand their digital platforms. Cubes are classified as 'Experience,' 'Feature,' 'Service,' 'Community,' 'Integration,' or 'Connecting.' The Digital Place product is personalised to the customer's needs based on this choice of alternatives.
Placecube has evolved as one of the premier providers of open-source technology integration and deployment in the UK and abroad during the past 15 years. The business has amassed a clientele of over 150,000 users from 5,000 businesses in 80 countries. Placecube is known to collaborate with Bristol City Council, Camden Council, ASM International, and Icon Plc, among others. Placecube also facilitates collaboration throughout the United Kingdom at the national, regional, and local levels in health, police, local service, and policy.
Placecube was recognized as one of Liferay's most prominent technical partners worldwide in 2021-22. Placecube was responsible for extending Liferay DXP's low-code capability and developing a Customer Relationship Management module.
==Acquisitions==
* Through a management buy-out in December 2015, Placecube bought MyKHUB.NET Limited from Liberata.
* In September 2016. PKI Knowledge Solutions Limited, a digital consultancy organization specializing in establishing platforms for customers in the public sector, retail, and membership association businesses in the United Kingdom and the United States, was bought by Placecube.
* Placecube bought Porism Limited in November 2022 and made it a wholly-owned subsidiary. Porism is a company that makes software and gives advice. Its specialty is open data services and standards. It helps the LGA provide LG Inform and LG Inform Plus, which are tools for comparing data, to the local authorities that are members of the LGA.
==Products & Services==
The core software as a service product offered by Placecube are:
* Digital Place for Communities - A knowledge platform that makes global teamwork easy. It enables users to easily collaborate and disseminate knowledge and information within and outside the organisation. 
* Digital Place for Connected Data - Open data platform connecting places, communities, and services that assist organisations in constructing adaptive service experiences to suit client goals, improve outcomes, and facilitate future service design.
* Digital Place for Local Public Services - Local services platform through which clients can design a customised solution from over 150 ready-made components to expedite digital transformation or create new ones. The software makes it easy to consolidate services and information for a consistent user experience.
* Open Place Directory - Client organisations develop local directories to make it easier for service providers, staff, and volunteers to enter and manage records online. The company offers technical expert services to both subscription and non-subscription clients seeking bespoke digital solutions, including user research, UX/UI design, service design, technical architecture, quality assurance, and service management
==Awards and recognitions==
Placecube has been recognized as:
* The Innovation Partner of the Year Worldwide Award at Liferay Partner Summit (2021-2022)
* Living Wage Employer
* Disability Confident Employer
* ISO 27001:2013
==References==
==External links==
* Official Website
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Category:Companies established in 2015
Category:Information technology companies
Category:Software companies
Category:Data companies