InfoAxon’s ‘Liferay Integration’ services help organizations extend the value of their Liferay Portal deployments by ensuring proper design, architecture, enhancements and integrations with other enterprise applications to deliver production grade Liferay solutions.
At InfoAxon, we have continuously enhanced our CMS and Web Portal capabilities and adopted ‘Liferay ‘ which is one of the world’s leading Open source Portal and Collaborative Content Management Platforms to deliver rich content and people centric portal solutions. We have rich experience in delivering customized Web Portal, Collaboration and Social Networking Solutions using Liferay as core CMS and Web Portal engine.
Through our multiple Portal solutions implementations, our engineering teams have further customized and enhanced Liferay.
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Liferay ‘Turbo-charged’ By InfoAxon
Powerful & Rich Open Source Portal Alternative
A new breed of Portals is emerging which provide cross cutting capabilities around mash up of Content, Collaboration, and Social. A
new age portal can resemble any of the following:
1. Collaborative Content & Knowledge Management Solutions
2. Content rich dynamic corporate portals / websites
3. Enterprise 2.0 Social Intranets / Extranets
4. Content & Data Mash up Platforms
5. Multi tenant SaaS Platforms for delivering innovative services to end-users
6. Social Network or Communities of Practices (CoPs) based collaboration Platform
7. Workflow enabled Document Management, Team- and Task-centric Platform
Organizations are fast realizing that they can’t address most of the above (and many other) use cases by building on closed source,
proprietary Portal products which are too expensive, rigid and complicated. Usually these solutions are achieved by Integration of
various other frameworks and tools with the Portal platform.
Open source Portal Platforms provide a viable alternative solution to meet the Content Management, Social and Collaboration needs
of today’s knowledge driven organizations. By their very nature, open source Portal Platforms are more flexible, based on open
standards and less expensive to acquire, deploy and support than proprietary solutions.
Liferay fits the bill
Liferay, an open source Portal and Collaborative Content Management Platform, fits the bill. It’s simple enough for non-technical
users to easily create, edit, and manage web and enterprise content. Yet it provides powerful capabilities that will streamline
development and reduce time to market.
Liferay offers:
Built-in content management
Flexible SOA application integration platform
Enterprise grade collaboration and social networking suite
Intuitive user interface
24x7 enterprise subscription and support
By building on relevant standards and open source technologies, Liferay enhances the potential of the Internet as a medium where
diverse and geographically-separated individuals and groups can collectively produce, discuss, and share content, information and
ideas.
When correctly designed and implemented with right open source integration partner like InfoAxon, open source Portal Platforms
such as Liferay will provide sustainable business benefits.
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Peace of Mind: InfoAxon powered Liferay Portal Solutions
InfoAxon has been providing content driven web 2.0 portals to its customers globally for over a decade leveraging best-of-the
breed open source platforms, frameworks and technologies. Right from its inception, InfoAxon has been involved with open source
content management and web portal projects, in capacity of both as the key contributor and solution provider. This has resulted
into strong technical expertise with the company as well as business domain knowledge to design, integrate and deliver large scale
content management and web portal solutions.
Way back in 2004, InfoAxon worked on Office of Deputy Prime Minister, UK funded APLAWS Pathfinder Project to develop web
standards and an Open Source Web Content Management System that could be freely adopted by any local authority in the UK.
InfoAxon worked closely with Redhat and other UK Councils to enhance and deploy APLAWS (Accessible Personalized Local
Authority Web Sites) CMS product. This resulted into InfoAxon acquiring rich experience of managing open source CMS projects
and exposure to open source content management and web portal technologies.
At InfoAxon, we have continuously enhanced our CMS and Web Portal capabilities and adopted ‘Liferay ‘ which is one of the
world’s leading Open source Portal and Collaborative Content Management Platforms to deliver rich content and people centric
portal solutions. We have rich experience in delivering customized Web Portal, Collaboration and Social Networking Solutions using
Liferay as core CMS and Web Portal engine.
InfoAxon Powered Liferay
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Through our multiple Portal solutions implementations, our engineering teams have further customized and enhanced Liferay with:
New functionalities including creation of content migration service, custom portlets using the JSR-168 and JSR-286 portlet
standards and so on.
Customization of core Liferay and out-of-box portlets to fit custom requirements using the EXT and Plug-in-development
model in Liferay
Integration with other open source frameworks such as with Alfresco content repository, Pentaho BI Analytics, Orbeon and
other open source / proprietary products.
Creation of multi-tenant SaaS based services such as Hosted Retail Analytics, and
Further add-ons (which we call Solution Accelerators) to streamline and fast track Portal based solutions development and
deployment for our customers.
Repository of Pre-Integrated Portal Solutions
To the end customers, this results into alternative, innovative & cost- effective Portal Solutions that meet their needs as opposed to
traditional Portal systems that come with rigid, large footprints and require big budgets to implement.
Also, since we already have repository of pre-built, pre-integrated and pre-tested Portal solutions which caters to most of the
common Portal, CMS and Collaboration scenarios, considerably less effort is required to implement and maintain Portal solutions for
the customers resulting into faster turnaround and lower TCO.
Open Source Understanding
Using its unique combination of Liferay expertise and deep understanding of open source model, InfoAxon helps organizations
conceptualize, design and deploy open source portal & collaborative content management solutions. This has far reaching effects in
ensuring the achievement of business outcomes through a proper Solution rather than just product deployment.
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Liferay Solutions & Services
InfoAxon has delivered various solutions leveraging Liferay and other open source frameworks. These are:
1. Community Based Knowledge Network Portals
2. Social Network based Portals
3. Knowledge Management Platforms for International Development and Insurance Organizations
4. Portal & Social Networking Solutions for HIV and AIDS communities in Africa
5. Corporate Web sites based on Liferay Portal
6. Workflow based Grant Management Solutions for Development Fund tracking and monitoring
InfoAxon’s ‘Liferay Integration’ services help organizations extend the value of their Liferay Portal deployments by ensuring proper
design, architecture, enhancements and integrations with other enterprise applications to deliver production grade Liferay solutions.
InfoAxon offers following Liferay Solutioning Services:
Liferay Consulting:
InfoAxon can help you with your Liferay Portal initiative in many ways. Our portfolio of Liferay portal services ranges from assessments
and recommendations to full blown integration, implementation and deployment.
We bring deep and broad skills with the Liferay platform and associated technologies to help you succeed with your Liferay initiative.
Our Liferay Consulting services are tuned to help you get your Liferay Portal up and running quickly. This includes:
1. Liferay installation, setup, configuration and proof of concept
2. Liferay based solution design, architecture, advisory and roadmap
3. Theme, Site, Layout, UI Templates, Portlets design
4. Staff Augmentation (Offshore development of your Liferay projects, Onsite consultant visits)
5. Migration to Liferay, Upgrades and Performance Tuning
6. R&D to jumpstart your Portal based innovative ideas
Liferay Integration & Development
Like most solutions, Liferay implementations are not one-size-fits-all and typically requires integration of some key other open source
or proprietary products / frameworks / components to provide an innovative ‘Whole Solution’ to business problems.
InfoAxon works closely with its customers to ensure the right solution is designed for a given business problem / scenario. InfoAxon
provides following:
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Pre-packaged Integrations
Our existing Liferay based solutions implementations and rich overall open source expertise has resulted into pre-packaged Liferay
based Integrations which could be re-used in multiple scenarios. These pre-packaged integrations ‘Liferay Solution Accelerators’
help reduce turnaround time and cost of Liferay based solution implementation.
Some of these Liferay Solution Accelerators are integration of:
1. Content Migration Framework: One of the common scenarios while adopting Liferay based Portal solution is migration of
content from customer’s existing portal / website / external source. Depending upon the existing content items types and its
associations the migration of live data from existing system to Liferay could be cumbersome and time consuming. Our team has
developed an easy to implement ‘migration framework’ to migrate content to Liferay. The framework can import the following
data from other systems.
User Data, Profiles
Web pages
Web contents
Documents
Any other content
The main components of the framework are several REST based services built leveraging Liferay and Pentaho Kettle ETL tool.
2. Authentication / Single Sign On (SSO): Integration with your preferred security mechanisms including your corporate LDAP
or Active Directory
3. ECM Framework: Integration with Alfresco ECM framework for JCR content repository, versioning , metadata, workflow,
exposing content as service using REST framework
4. Web 2.0 Experience: Integration with zK framework for rich web2.0 experience and pre-designed UI components
5. X-Forms Engine: Integration with Orbeon X-Forms Engine to design and publish X-Forms
6. Workflow Engine: Integration with jBPM to design and create business specific Task Model and Custom Workflows
7. Business Intelligence & Analytics: Integration with Pentaho Platform to provide rich Dashboards, Reports and Graphs
8. Portlets: Some of the new Portlets developed and pre-packaged by InfoAxon are:
a. Liferay – Facebook Portlet
b. Liferay – Twitter portlet
c. Wall Portlet for display of User Activity Feeds
d. Notification and Alerts Portlet
e. Bookmark Portlet enhanced
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f. Private Message Box
g. Content Watch list for Users
h. Suggestions – Contents, Friends (Colleagues), Groups
i. User Interests
j. Group Specializations
k. Image Albums
l. Document Library
m. Social Media – LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter integration
n. Federated Search for the Web
Web
Images
Videos
Bookmarks
News
o. User Wall posts, Comments
p. Ideas
q. Private Message Box
r. Collaboration – Wikis, Blogs, Forums
s. User, Group Profile
t. Notifications
u. User, Group Tag Profile
9. REST Service Layer: InfoAxon has developed a REST Layer on top of Liferay Portal to implement Loose Integration between
external applications
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Custom Integration & Development
Based upon the unique requirements of customers, InfoAxon provides Custom Integration and further Development on Liferay
Platform to create rich content-centric collaborative applications. Such integrations and development leverages:
1. Liferay EXT Environment: To customize and further develop on existing Liferay Portlets, Services, Themes, and Layouts etc.
2. Liferay Plug-in Framework: To develop and hot-deploy new functionalities and enhancements
3. JSR-168, JSR-286 Portlet specifications
4. UI development around
a. New Theme creation:
i. JQuery
ii. Velocity
iii. HTML5
iv. YUI
v. CSS
b. Custom Layout Templates
c. Location, Departmental Themes
5. Integration of Liferay Portal with other Platforms / Frameworks / Applications: Integration with Liferay Portal could be
achieved leveraging:
a. Loose Integration based on REST Layer: InfoAxon has developed a REST layer within Liferay Framework to consume
various service exposed by external applications
b. Portlet Based Integration: Using WSRP (Web Services for Remote Portlets) an OASIS-approved network protocol
standard designed for communications with remote Portlets.
c. IFRAME: Configuring IFRAME Portlet within Liferay.
Business Continuity Support & Training
InfoAxon leverages its rich and deep expertise in Liferay Portal to provide professional Support and Maintenance services which
ensures business continuity of the implemented solution. InfoAxon provides following business continuity support services:
1. Corrective Support and Maintenance of Liferay based solution and the entire stack
2. SLA based issue/bug resolution
3. Regular System and Data Backups
4. Regular Audits and Advisory
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The success of business solution implementation depends upon how well it is adopted within the organization and empowering various
stake holders (end users, administrators, developers) with the ability to perform their task better.
InfoAxon creates ‘value’ for its customers by ensuring success of Liferay initiative by providing practical know-how and actionable
knowledge in form of Training Services. These Training Services cover Portal Solution Development, Integration, Deployment and
Administration of Liferay Platform and InfoAxon’s Agile & Iterative solution development methodology.
InfoAxon Training covers:
Business Users Training
Administrator Training
Developer Training
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Contribution to Open Source Community
InfoAxon’s Content & Knowledge Management Team is continuously involved in various R&D activities around Liferay Portal Platform
and other open source tools, technologies and framework. As a result, the team has created several ‘innovations’ which have been
contributed to open source community in form of open source projects.
Find below few such contributions:
Liferay – Facebook Integration
InfoAxon’s KM Team has developed a Facebook Portlet for its Liferay based KM Platform ‘fusionKM’. The Portlet enables integration
between users’ Facebook account and Liferay Portal.
InfoAxon has contributed the ‘Facebook-Liferay Integration Portlet’ to the open source community as a GPL licensed open source
project. The code is available for download on Google Code:
URL for Download : http://code.google.com/p/liferay-facebook-portlet/
The Facebook Portlet allows users to access and interact with their Facebook accounts without leaving the Liferay Portal environment.
Provides following capabilities:
View your Wall posts, post new updates
See and manage your full Facebook profile
View your friends
See full posts and comments
Post links, videos, URLs in your Facebook update
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Liferay – Twitter Integration
Users within the Liferay portal environment would like to access their Twitter feeds and also post updates. InfoAxon has developed a
Liferay-Twitter Integration Portlet which allows Twitter experience within the Liferay portal environment.
The Liferay-Twitter Portlet is further being open sourced by InfoAxon as a GPL project on Google Code. The code for the portlet could
be downloaded from:
URL for Download : http://code.google.com/p/liferay-twitter-portlet/
The Liferay-Twitter portlet allows user to interact with their Twitter account within their Liferay portal environment. It allows:
Post new tweets, reply to tweets, and re-tweet.
View Your Followers
View People whom you are following
View Twitter Trends.
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Pre-Integrated Liferay Solutions
From very early on we were focused around Content, Knowledge Management and
Business Intelligence as our area of expertise. This focus has resulted into separate
open source Content & Knowledge Management, and BI practice within the
organization with dedicated teams and a shared R&D infrastructure. The practice
teams and growing implementations have resulted into pre-integrated KM and BI
Platforms – fusionKM and fusionBI.
Technology Stack
These are pre-integrated and tested Platforms built through Integration of Liferay
Portal with other best of the breed open source platforms and frameworks such as Liferay® Enterprise Portal
Alfresco, Pentaho, Orbeon etc. Alfresco® ECMS
BIRT / Pentaho BI
fusionKM – Collaborative Content & Knowledge Reporting
Open Office
Management Platform JBPM
JQuery, YUI
fusionKM is a ‘Collaborative Content & Knowledge Management’ solution enabling Lucene
users to create, store, manage and share organizational knowledge in a highly MySQL
collaborative manner within a secured virtual environment. It allows organizations Apache Tomcat
to create departments, networks, projects, groups and enables users to work,
create and share knowledge in a collaborative environment. Features
fusionKM provides workflow and process based framework within a social
Networking context. Intelligent knowledge spaces come alive around Projects, Content / Document /
Groups and enable users to share knowledge working in a collaborative Knowledge Management
environment.
Document Library
fusionKM provides users with a single Search capability to search information and Version Management
knowledge assets, not only from the in-premise knowledge bank but also from Document Check-in / out
World Wide Web. Document Transformation
PDF Generation
The rich knowledge repository of fusionKM constitutes of Wikis, Blogs, Discussion Public / Private Content
Forums, Emails, Media files etc. like social networking platform. People make Knowledge Repository
connections; join Groups or Communities thus creating professional network and Network Knowledge
knowledge base. Record Management
By using fusionKM organizations can quickly establish internal KM Solution and Image Management
Web CMS
develop their internal business process and taxonomy.
Content Tagging
Watch list
Page Comments
Page Ratings
RSS Feeds
Message Boards
Bookmarks
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Solution Highlights
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Collaboration:
The solution is designed and architected in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA),
Message Box
making it fully extensible and integrated with organizations internal and legacy
Notifications
systems.
Wall
Repository as Service User Groups
Watch List
The full knowledge repository can be exposed as REST based HTTP services, Alerts
making the solution ready to serve as knowledge provider to other systems. Announcements
Wiki
Business Process
Blog
The integrated business process engine can be configured to implement any Calendar
workflow processes of any industry or organization. It has integrated modules for Aggregator (Blog content
comes in one stream)
Reporting, Timesheet, Project Management, Task Management, Escalation etc.
Instant Messaging
Portal
Project Management:
Full featured JSR complaint portal framework with lots of built in applications such
as Wiki, Blog, Discussion Forum, Calendar, Theme, Web CMS, Document Time Sheets
Management, and Private Messaging etc. Project Team Building
Project Task Management
CMIS Project repository
management
fusionKM is CMIS compliant platform which enables interoperability between other Client Management (Manage
Enterprise Content Management Systems. Customers)
Brand Management (Manage
Protocols Products/Brand)
A number of industry standard protocols such as WebDAV, IMAP, CIFS, FTP etc are Communities of
supported in fusionKM making the platform pluggable to other complaint systems.
Practice:
Intranet ready
Communities (Listing)
fusionKM is a fitting solution for organization wide Intranet setups with multiple Expert Directory
branches, departments and geographically distributed. Idea
Member of the week
Mash Ups Memberships
Recent colleagues
Built in applications to integrate with several other popular information and
Profile Summary
knowledge sources; such as Bing, YouTube, Flickr, Delicious, Wikipedia etc.
Top Members
Open Platform User Groups
Member Activities
No limit in number of users and knowledge content size and space. Invitations
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Benefits
Social:
For Users Social Account Management
Facebook
Reduces time required to complete knowledge intensive work
Linked In
Increases “trust level” in information accuracy and timeliness Twitter
You Tube
Eases burden on subject “experts” since users can get answers and guidance Flicker
to their questions on a self-serve basis Twitter
Wall
For Administrators
Friends/Activities
Minimal resources required for ongoing maintenance as many tasks can be Google Maps
scheduled for automatic rule based execution
Search:
Security inherited from content source, so administrators do not have to worry
Federated Search
about unauthorized users gaining access to sensitive information
Local Repository Search
Comprehensive toolkit for building, supervising and managing the Enterprise Contextual Search
Portal
For Organizations
Improves ROI of knowledge asset management by reusing information instead
of reinventing and searching for it
Reduces cost of retaining intellectual capital and transmitting it to new
employees or successors
Administration:
Quick and Easy installation and use across the enterprise
Manage Applications
Based on full Open Source – Full ownership, no vendor lock-in Sitemap
Control Panel
Layouts
Themes
WAP enabled
Mobile Support
Manage Apps
Manage Users
Account Registrations
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17. About InfoAxon Technologies
InfoAxon is a leading provider of enterprise services and business
solutions powered by open source. We design; architect and support
complete “Enterprise Solution Platforms” using Open Standards, Web 2.0
next generation technologies and Open Source Frameworks providing
end-to-end solutions to business problems.
India’s First Global Open Source Integration Company
We are India's First Global Open Source Integration Company providing
business solutions in areas of Content & Knowledge Management,
Web2.0 Collaboration and Business Intelligence powered by our
unique open source ‘Platforming’ expertise.
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