IT expert Lutz Leßmann, later founder of Lucom, begins work as an independent distribution partner for the Canadian software company, Delrina Corp., creator of the digital form application PerForm PRO and its successor FormFlow.

Lucom GmbH founded in January.
Lucom becomes the first German Delrina partner.
In this capacity, the company implements German customer projects for industry and public administration using the digital form application PerForm PRO and its successor FormFlow.

After the sale of Delrina to American software provider Symantec in 1995 and the sale of the “form applications” product range to Canadian competitor JetForm Corp, Lucom becomes JetForm’s only German Premier Partner. As a result, the Erkrath-based company successfully implements both form management and form-based workflow solutions using FormFlow for customers such as Beiersdorf AG, Rolls-Royce, EMI Electrola, HOCHTIEF, Linde AG, Siemens and WDR.

The strategic partnership agreed in 1999 between Lucom and Swedish company StreamServe Inc. enables Lucom to expand its own input solution by adding a high-performance, centrally-controlled output technology. This enables Lucom to provide its customers with a complete solution for the entire workflow, from input to output. Business and administrative processes can thus be carried out completely electronically, seamlessly and across company boundaries, and then output for fax, e-mail and any database or ERP system.

After a strategic disagreement with its Canadian partner, Lucom splits from JetForm in 2000 and branches out on its own to develop the first Web-based input management system. Lucom’s years of experience and direct customer contact results in the process-oriented input management application FormsForWeb®, which is launched in

at the “Moderner Staat” exhibition in Berlin. “Our Input Management is clearly more than just a form management application; it’s a much more comprehensive solution,” explains Lutz Lessmann, Managing Director of Lucom GmbH. “It benefits from a digital entry screen, which can be directly connected to downstream systems to enable end-to-end transactions to be performed across the entire workflow. This enables time-sensitive business processes, such as booking flights or securities trading, to be performed online. These processes cannot, of course, be performed using static PDF forms.”

We relocated to our new offices at Forsthaus Morp as a result of new additions to our team, which meant greater space requirements, and because we wanted to optimise our working environment. Forsthaus Morp is a neo-Gothic villa dating back to the 19th century. This beautiful architecture, plus the building's location in picturesque parkland, makes a relaxing setting for both employees and participants of the courses that are held at our in-house training centre.

As part of the 'BundOnline2005' initiative, Lucom, together with Siemens and MATERNA, competed against companies all across Europe and was awarded the contract to deliver the ‘basic form management system component’ by the German federal administration. Since FormsForWeb was rolled out as the German government’s form server, most standard paper forms are now available as interactive documents. A number of government agencies, including the Federal Ministry of Finance, can now provide citizens and companies with online access to a range of administrative processes and services. Even complex application procedures, such as those of the German Emissions Trading Agency (DEHSt) at the Federal Environmental Agency, are implemented in a fully electronic manner thanks to the FormsForWeb server.

A few months after the move, the North Rhine-Westphalian government authority chose FormsForWeb as its form server in a pan-European call for tenders in which Lucom and Proximity jointly secured the contract to provide a central form management system for seamless administration processes. The central management of the FormsForWeb form server by the IT.NRW State Office for Information and Technology, formerly the State Office for Data Processing and Statistics, enables public authorities and state institutions to electronically transmit data between public authorities, companies and citizens.

With the foundation of Lucom Benelux BV Lucom Germany continued their strategy to set up branches where contacts already exist. Thus the subsidiary in Groot-Ammers (NL) could successfully launch the web-based Lucom technology in the Dutch market in no time at all. There public authorities as well as companies of any size and branch meanwhile profit from the solutions realized by Lucom Benelux BV - simplicity they can feel.

InvoiceIN developed by Lucom on the basis of FormsForWeb has been launched on the market. It is the simple, intelligent solution for the identification, forwarding, checking and approval of incoming invoices.

Due to the positive feedback, the Federal Ministry of Finance and the ZIVIT, centre for information processing and technology, decided to order a federal license for the FormsForWeb form management system. The achievement of the federal license shows that FormsForWeb, which was selected in the BundOnline2005 public tendering procedure, has been successfully established in the public sector after a short time.

From FormsForWeb to Lucom Interaction Platform - the proven form server's upgrade to interaction platform has been Lucom's top priority in recent months: The FormsForWeb Server has become Lucom Interaction Platform – now it can be used both as a professional form management system and provides the ideal infrastructure for the provision of all kinds of interactive e-services on the internet and intranet.