Liferay Portal

Liferay Portal is one of the most mature portal frameworks on the market (in development since 2000) and offers these basic benefits and more as follow

Key Business Benefits:

• Provide an intuitive and collaborative user experience.
• Consolidate, organize and access all your data and applications via a single point of access.
• Optimize existing IT investments.
• Adapt to the demands of a changing market.
• Scale your business without worrying about your IT.
• Gain the lowest TCO.

Provide an intuitive and collaborative user experience

Maximize the productivity gains of portal users—a good user experience is key to capturing the highest return on an enterprise’s portal investment

• Liferay Portal was the first to allow users to drag-and-drop portlets to customize the experience to the unique preferences of a user or community.
• Use one of the 20+ out-of-the-box themes to change the look and feel of the portal without dealing with complex code.
• Individual community members are given their own pages with a user-defined friendly URL. This option gives users a better sense of ownership over the technology, thus enhancing their experience and generating user loyalty.
• Collaborative tools such as Instant Messaging, Message Boards, Blogs & Wikis allow you to create true communities of users.

Consolidate, organize and access all your data and applications via a single point of access

Liferay portal provides you a single point of access to all your organization’s data, content, and information from both existing in-house applications (i.e., HR, CRM) and external sources. Single-sign-on lets users log in once to access all their information needs.

After signing in, our fine-grained permissioning allows you to customize and control who can access sensitive information and functionality.
Users get an intuitive front-end while behind the scenes our support of ServiceMix technology simplifies the integration, upgrade, and substitution of disparate applications for the developer.

Optimize existing IT investments

Leverage your existing IT environment.
Liferay Portal is the only open source portal that works with any application server, database server, or operating system with over 700 deployment configurations!
Be assured that existing technology investments are not jettisoned and that future changes will not require an overhaul of an existing Liferay Portal installation.

Adapt to the demands of a changing market

Liferay’s workflow engine allows organizations of all sizes to be more nimble. Flexible IT makes business processes more dynamic, modular, and adaptable to the demands of fast-changing markets.
No matter how your processes change, Liferay was benchmarked as among the most secure portal platforms on the market using LogicLibrary’s Logiscan suite, so you can be always confident in the security of your data.

Scale your business without worrying about your IT

Liferay grows with your organization.
Because our technology is among the few that allows for clustering (the addition of hardware to meet growing usage demands) Liferay Portal’s capacity for content and applications is limitless!

Liferay Portal also accommodates today’s global business environment with multi-lingual support, including: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese.

Add Liferay’s language portlet to any page and allow end-users to quickly select a different localization with one click.

Gain the lowest TCO

Liferay Portal provides the highest value and lowest costs at every level.

Open source products promise more freedom and flexibility, but not all open source licenses are the same.
Liferay Portal is offered under the MIT License, the most liberal and business friendly license available with absolutely no license fees or reciprocity clauses.

Hardware and Software– Strict adherence to standards allows Liferay Portal to be deployed in any of over 700 combinations of application server or servlet container, database, and operating system, reaping these additional value benefits:

• Helps your organization avoid “vendor lock-in” or dependence on a single third-party.
• Eliminates the incidental cost of new database or application server licenses a proprietary portal solution might require.
• Allows organizations to leverage existing in-house expertise for application server / database / operating system with no need to hire or train IT staff on new hardware / software.

Implementation – Liferay Portal’s included portlet suite (over 60) and built-in web publishing and content management system (CMS) reduce or eliminate the initial cost of custom development.