Case Study: Silicon Mechanics achieves streamlined collaboration and lower licensing costs with Lucidchart

Silicon Mechanics Enhances Client Collaboration via Lucidchart and Google Apps

Silicon Mechanics, a Washington-based rackmount server manufacturer and integrator with about 60 employees, needed an affordable, easy-to-use productivity suite. The company struggled with document latency, costly Microsoft Office and Visio licenses, and cumbersome file handoffs that limited collaboration and scalability.

By adopting G Suite alongside Lucidchart, Silicon Mechanics replaced Office and Visio with cloud-native docs, Drive integration, and Visio import, creating a single, shareable source of truth for diagrams and documents. The change cut software costs (avoiding at least a dozen Office licenses), sped up workflows, simplified onboarding, and improved both internal and customer collaboration and access to technical references.

Silicon Mechanics

Sue Lewis

Director of Product Management