Liferay overview

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Liferay Portal is the world's leading open source enterprise portal solution using the
latest in Java and Web 2.0 technologies.
It provides a web-based hub where an
enterprise can centralize and share
resources and collaborate.
In its 9th
year of development, Liferay
Portal provides best-of-breed
collaboration tools, content management,
and social networking for enterprises
worldwide.
Liferay Introduction

Liferay Today
Liferay Portal
 Project founded January 2000; ninth year in development
Liferay, Inc.
 70+ employees in U.S., Europe, and Asia providing commercial support, training and
professional services
Active Community
 7000+ Registered community participants
 50-70k+ Downloads per month; 1M+ total downloads.
Thought Leadership
 Member of JSR 286 Portlet Specification
 Member of JSR 314 JSF Specification
 Key contributors to JQuery UI
1000+ of known deployments and customers across industries

Media/Publishing
CMP Medica
CMP Information
CMP Media
DirecTV
Large German Newspaper (55m hits/yr)
Kanal 5 (TV, Sweden)
Universal Music Group
Software/Technology
Actuate
Borland Software
FireScope
Novell
Symantec
Sun Microsystems
Financial Services
Employers Direct Insurance Company
HanseMerkur
Noridian Mutual Insurance Company
Sparkasse KölnBonn
Allianz North America
Allianz Australia
Global Investment Bank in Germany
Pioneering Online Brokerage
Not-for-Profit
Case Foundation
Goodwill Industries International
UN International Fund for
Agriculture Development
World Vision
Government
US Department of State
US Air Force
US Army
European Union
French Armament Procurement Agency
NASA
Colorado State Department of Human
Services
Education
Penn State
Discovery Education
Madrid School System
Harvard Business School
Washington University in St. Louis
Manufacturing /
Automotive
SEAT
DEKRA
Robert Bosch
IFM Electronic
Retail / Services
AutoZone
Mitsubishi-Fuso
Oakwood Worldwide
United Colors of Benetton
Telecom
Covad Communications
Deutsch Telecom
(T-Mobile)
LG, Inc.
O2 (UK) Limited
Pantech USA
Cisco
Large Wireless Equipment
Manufacturer
Travel
Lufthansa
British Airways
Global Clients and Deployments

The following software providers redistribute
Liferay as part of their proprietary product
offerings:
 Sun Microsystems
 Symantec
 Novell
 Teradata
 Other Undisclosed Software Providers
These software providers represent over 12 billion in annual
revenue.
Liferay OEM and distributed usage

Liferay Community
Liferay is the most widely downloaded
Enterprise Portal in the world,
recognized for our mature and active
community.
 More than 50,000 downloads/month
 5000+ registered community members
 50+ active volunteer contributors
 Key hires from community:
 Jorge Ferrer
 Neil Griffin
 Ray Auge
 Rich Sezov
 David Rison
 Paul Bakaus

Liferay Portal is the world's leading open source enterprise portal solution using the
latest in Java and Web 2.0 technologies.
Popular use cases include:
 Web publishing & content management
 Intranet / Extranet
 Collaboration platform
 Social network
 EAI framework
How do Enterprises use Liferay?

Product Detail: Liferay Portal
Enterprise portals encompass
search, CMS, collaboration,
social networking, enterprise
web 2.0.

Product Detail: Collaboration Suite
Liferay Collaboration is Liferay Portal’s built-in collaboration suite that rivals
industry-leading products in its feature set. It provides all the benefits of a
community-centric portal environment such as a granular, role-based
permissioning system.
Message Boards Blogs Wikis
 RSS and email-based
subscriptions
 Threads management
 Support for sticky posts
 Statistics and recent posts
 Easy text editor
 RSS support and email
notifications of blog replies
 Threaded user and guest
comments
 Tags and labels
 An entry rating system
 Social bookmarking links
 Built-in user management
 Versioning and reversion
capabilities
Multiple Wikis per
deployment
Mail  Shared Calendars  Enterprise Chat  RSS feeds  Dynamic Tagging

Liferay Journal is Liferay Portal's built-in content management system, ready
to deliver portal-based web publishing and document management.
Product Detail: Liferay Journal
 Granular security and roles-based authorizations
 Document library with multiple file uploads, versioning
and workflow
 Instantaneous, one-click changes to layout and look
and feel
 Live page editing
 Scheduled Staging and Remote Staging publishes
subsets data to a live site.
 Tagging
 Dynamic Searching with Search Engine Optimization
(SEO). OpenSearch returns search results from
multiple content sources including Liferay portlets and
external integrated applications.

 Build a social network for your
enterprise with a single plugin.
 Configure features to reflect
activity for a sales team or
departmental workflow.
 Familiar social features: Friend
List, Facebook-style Wall, and
Activity Tracker.
 The Activity Tracker API makes it
easy to integrate third party
portlets and applications.
 Integrated Chat persists across all
pages
 Publish Liferay portlets to
Facebook, Myspace, iGoogle or
any website
Social Networking for the Enterprise leverages seamless integration with Liferay CMS and
Liferay Collaboration to create functional social networks suited to meet business needs.
Product Detail: Social Networking

Case Studies

“Liferay Portal was by far the most cost effective and
efficient portal technology we considered.”
– Steve Bergman, CIO
Goodwill Industries International
Client
Goodwill Industries International, one of the world’s largest nonprofit organizations. Last year, local Goodwills collectively
provided employment and training services to more than 720,000 individuals and generated revenues of $2.65 billion.
Deliverables
Public web site and intranet
Client Stories
 Public website Goodwill.org published and managed using Liferay Journal CMS
 MyGoodwill intranet enables worldwide collaboration and real-time learning
 Low acquistion and maintenance costs
 Key Features:
 Collaborative chat and message board
 Blogs for knowledge sharing
 Visitor-updateable Wikis
 Interface to Computer-Based Training modules
 Document repository
 Expert Professional Services:
 Customizations estimated at six to eight weeks were done over one weekend

Client Stories
 Facilitates communication between developers via
integration with message boards, blogs, wikis
 User contributed product documentation, best practices,
tips, etc.
 Provides value-added content and solutions for Tier 1, Tier
2, and Tier 3 partners.
Client
Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the
Internet solutions that make networks possible-providing easy access to
information anywhere, at any time.
Deliverables
Developer.cisco.com, an online developer network
Project Scope
2 resources, 2 months

Client Stories
 WebJunction ties content aggregation and publishing with
social networking
 Allows admins and users to contribute content via Message
Boards, Articles, Wikis, and more
 Tracks the activity of users to foster a sense of community
within the site
 Multi-tenancy: multiple copies of their site for each client
hosted on one instance of Liferay
Client
OCLC is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research
organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the
world’s information and reducing information costs.
Deliverables
WebJunction.org, an online community for library staff.
Project Scope
6 resources, 8 months

Client Stories
 Tracks not only the user’s
activity, but also the
activity of his or her friends
to foster a sense of
community within the site
 Ability to add friends and
view their profiles
 Enables users to take and
track courses through
integration with a Learning
Management System

Industry Attention
InfoWorld’s “2007 Technology of the Year” Awards
 Liferay 4.0 won for Best Open Source Portal
 “Liferay Portal 4.0 rivals many commercial portal platforms in both functionality and
technology…”
EContent 100 Award
 Liferay 4.0 was named to EContent magazine's 2006 list of the 100 most influential and
innovative companies in the digital content industry in the Intranets & Portals category
CIO 100 Award (Goodwill Industries)
 Goodwill Industries won a 2006 CIO 100 award for the Web-based knowledge portal
built using Liferay 3.6.1.
 “Participation in the online community has increased steadily, and user registration is
higher than any system Goodwill has ever had...”
“Using Liferay Portal 4.0 was totally enjoyable.
I was impressed with the solid administration,
flexible deployment options, and how much
functionality comes out of the box.”
Mike Heck, InfoWorld
A J2EE stack using Liferay was measured among
eight different portal solutions as delivering :
• The highest average hits per second
• The 2nd highest average throughput per second
• The 3rd highest average document download time

Open Source Advantages
Why Open Source?
 Complete control over code
 Sponsored development opportunities
 Rapid innovation and development cycles
 Lower cost of ownership
 Commercial open-source: best of both worlds

Service Offerings
 Professional Support
 Production: 24/7, phone and email SLA options
 Indemnification
 Developer Assistance
 Consulting Services
 On-site / off-site
 Development, performance tuning, best practices
 Public and Private (on-site) Training
 Developer and Administrator

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