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 If you intend to replace your outdated on-premise solutions by innovative cloud applications, you’ll discover here the large scale of use cases you can address with LumDocs.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.

By Matthias Manoukian, UX leader and front­end developer at LumApps.

At LumApps we build web apps that have strong links with Google Apps for Work. I personally come from the Apple world so I didn’t know much more about Google ecosystem. I only used Gmail and Calendar through the MacOS/iOS clients. I was a bit lost. It was last year, on June.

In the Apple world, the idea of a conscious and unified user experience has always been the main concern, navigating through multiple graphic streams (Skeuomorphism, Flat Design).

In the Google world, engineer is the king. Amazing features but many teams spread around the world involving sometimes a lack of graphic consistency.

Because of our strong

A project growth at LumApps

Web application development must go fast and clean. At LumApps, to ensure a good quality of our products, to be sure our entire team collaborates efficiently, we inspect each step of the development process and define guidelines and tools.
To learn more about technologies we use, read our article on GCP & Angular.

Tools don't do all the job, but having a good toolbox saves your time... and mind.

Choose your work tools

We provide new and efficient machines for our staff. So we each have a Linux or Mac laptop, everyone can choose, and a second large screen: the main workstation is comfortable for the day to day work, but we keep mobility and