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

Everyday at LumApps, we're working on our projects using advanced technologies. Technical choices are based on two major criteria. First of all, we always search the most efficient technologies to get the best results for our applications. Also, it's really important that we enjoy ourselves and many technologies were chosen especially for that.

Google Cloud Platform

With our first project in 2012, LumDocs, we were only 3 developers, and no one else. It was important for us to focus on the code and not be slowed by everything like the configuration of a server. We also wanted from the start to be able to manage lots of request easily.

Google App Engine gave us exactly that. The load and scaling

A year ago, LumApps designed a new logo. Nowadays, all products have been rebranded and we are finalizing our visual identity.

LumApps Logo

We picked colors with bright highlights. We worked on typographic and chose Open Sans. The typeface is now slightly wider and rounder, giving it greater clarity and making it more optimistic.
The core was metamorphosed into a yellow cube with lights and shadows.

LumX

At the end of 2014, LumApps released an awesome open-source framework: LumX (read the article on LumX).

The aim was to remind LumApps identity but differentiating from LumApps products. We used geometric shapes from LumApps logo and played with the imbrication which define best LumX (in LumX you take the components you need

Here at LumApps, we embrace Google technologies throughout all our products and applications. We have been playing around with AngularJS for nearly 2 years and Material Design since Google I/O this year.

Today, we are proud to announce the release of an open-source framework : LumX.

LumX implements Material Design using Saas and AngularJS. We have followed Google's guidelines thoroughly and we are pretty much happy with the result.

To start using it right away, you can:

• Download the latest release.
• Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/lumapps/lumx.git.
• Install with Bower: bower install lumx.

Discover all the details: http://ui.lumapps.com/getting-started/installation

Please keep in mind that LumX is still young and that there

The Google Cloud Platform has everything you need. You can host application with automatic scalability on App Engine, store data in the Dastastore (NoSQL) or the Cloud SQL, manage large amount of data with Big Query, or store assets in Cloud Storage.
But you can also have a full server with Compute Engine, with an API to start it, shutdown, clone, etc. So when we decided to open a blog here at LumApps, and especially a Ghost blog, we didn't think twice before using Google Compute Engine.

Table of contents:

1. Initialization
   
   1. Project creation
   2. Server creation
2. Installation
   
   1. Ghost installation
   2. Startup script
3. Finalization
4. Conclusion

Initialization

First, we needed to create a new Google Cloud project and a new server.

Project creation

To