Limehouse Software powers award-winning Top Digital Cities, 2009

Plano and West Palm Beach have both been named Top Ten Digital Cities in their size categories for effectively using technology to better serve their citizens and to streamline public service operations.

Plano, a top ten ranking city for the 250,000 or more population category, ranked higher than both Houston and Washington DC.

West Palm Beach has continued its success in 2009, the fifth year it has been ranked as a top ten digital city in the 75,000 - 124,999 population category.

Sandy Calabrese, Limehouse Software Vice President and General Manager, said: “For both these cities to be honored this way is a real achievement and testament to the power of the Limehouse proposition. Limehouse Software enables the public sector to effectively manage citizen engagement and document production processes to power increased efficiencies, which is crucial to effective and timely service delivery.”

Plano and West Palm Beach add value to their communities by internally sharing services and using efficient document collaboration and design tools to speed public consultations and the development of policies and procedures to serve the public. Limehouse enables this by providing an end-to-end collaborative content creation, document publishing and stakeholder consultation solution. Plano and West Palm Beach bring together users, contributors, publishing and delivery services and facilitate the involvement of stakeholders through real-time collaboration and consultation with communities.

The Center for Digital Government and Digital Communities magazine name the most advanced digital cities in America each year and winners are recognized for their transparency and sustainability, representing a model to cities across America. Winners are to be honored at a ceremony in San Antonio, Texas on November 12th, 2009.