This article is the introduction of a ten-part series on LumDocs. In this series, we will present some of the key features to help you grasp the potential of this application selected by a lot of companies using Google Apps for Work. If you intend to replace your outdated on-premise solutions by innovative cloud applications, you’ll discover here the large scale of use cases you can address with LumDocs. We will describe awesome features and native settings that have seduced companies willing to automate their business processes.

What is LumDocs ?

LumDocs is designed to fit all your specific business ways of work where users model their approaches and build customized spaces to run their projects.
LumDocs is a DMS

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We discovered a step by step progression : at first Google Apps deployment eased the collaboration between group entities on functional uses, then LumDocs brought answers to business issues like document management and process.

What

The days before

LumApps is going fast. A permanent growth with new collaborators every month, continuous innovation, ever-evolving solutions... We are tightly focused on our development, moving forward at an unbridled pace.

But for one day, we decided to ditch our computer screens and take a deep breath of fresh air (which was easy, since our headquarters lie right between the city and the countryside). The whole team broke free from the office for a few hours to bond with colleagues and meet some new faces.

Inception

It was the LumApps founders who came up with the great idea of enjoying a day of golf. Even though only a few of us had ever heard of putter, wedge or tee.

LumSites, the new digital and collaborative way of work

Launched at the beginning of the year, LumSites has already 400 000 users. What explains such a success towards businesses gone to Google Apps for work ?

All companies are looking for a collaborative and social portal to share corporate content, manage document libraries and centralize business applications. Indeed the challenge is to address the appropriate information to the appropriate people, not only top down, this communication should also be bottom up and peer to peer.

Enterprise social networks are seriously considered by organisations for enhancing internal and external relationships. Many platforms offer the possibility to create communities where people can interact, or to add comments or notes on documents… but it