June 02, 2020 -- DigEplan, a global leader in fully integrated electronic plan review, announces a new partnership with Cityworks, the leading GIS-centric solution for public asset management, to bring city and county government permitting departments an end-to-end, fully integrated electronic plan review that is aligned with today’s public sector budgets. Deployed in days, DigEplan and Cityworks are enabling vital government services to continue, providing business continuity whilst adhering to Covid-19 rules.

The partnership between Cityworks and DigEplan brings a game changing solution to Cityworks customers that enables home working with cloud-based fully integrated electronic plan review. Enhancing productivity and reducing administration, DigEplan has proven to be 200% more productive when benchmarked against desktop-based PDF mark-up tools.

“Online, real-time customer service opportunities are more important now than ever before,” said George Mastakas, vice president of enterprise solutions at Cityworks. “Communities are looking for ways to simplify complex workflows, reduce costs, ease administrative burden, and improve customer service. DigEplan has a demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality electronic plan review solutions that help communities and their customers work more efficiently.”

Configured in days, DigEplan’s deep integration into Cityworks removes complexity, ensuring a fully featured, scalable, secure and collaborative electronic plan review that is accessed from existing Cityworks PLL screens and workflows, including the Public Access web portal.

“Working together Cityworks and DigEplan provide government services the resilience to deal with Covid-19 restrictions and tools to deliver highly-effective electronic plan review services into the future,” said Jason Matthews, CEO DigEplan. “DigEplan offers a better approach than the frustrations faced when using non-integrated desktop-based PDF mark-up or over complex third-party standalone plan review tools.

“DigEplan removes the cumbersome processes associated with paper or desktop-based PDF plan review and complex third-party standalone systems. The partnership between Cityworks and DigEplan ensures all Cityworks PLL customers can now quickly and easily realise the benefits of fully integrated electronic plan review,” explained Jason.

Cityworks joins more than 20 government technology platforms in partnering with DigEplan. Widely used in the USA, DigEplan customers span over 100 counties, municipalities and cities across four countries.