Liferay

Digital Experience
Platform 7.2
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Liferay Digital Experience
Platform 7.2
Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP) 7.2 is software to create and manage
digital experiences across web, mobile and connected devices. Built on a highly
flexible architecture with portal, CMS and collaboration capabilities, Liferay DXP
can be customized to meet the needs of today’s digital-first business teams
to deliver personalized experiences rapidly across channels for employees,
customers or partners.
For a full feature list, please read the Liferay DXP 7.2 Features Overview.

Key Benefits
Personalization at Scale
Achieve greater control over managing personalized experiences across multiple
touchpoints for rapid delivery of user experiences. Business users can easily
define audience segments with robust rules for fine-grained personalization and
engage these segments with a range of personalized experiences across pages,
navigation and assets. Automate content personalization based on user behavior
with interest-based content recommendations.

Increased Headless Freedom

Leverage a decoupled CMS with improved APIs that give developers the benefits
of headless freedom with traditional CMS-like management for the business user.
This hybrid approach offers the best of both worlds to enterprises looking to
efficiently deliver experiences at scale.

Streamlined Business Processes

Gain end-to-end visibility on critical business processes with workflow reports
and real-time workflow analytics. Working from shared data across systems,
employees can implement initiatives to improve services and give other departments
the insight they need to make operations run better. Back office operations are
further enhanced with peer-to-peer document sharing and open data engine
APIs designed to help developers build more flexible business applications.

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Integrates With Everything
Integrate the systems that power the core of your business. Liferay DXP builds
on our portal heritage with a set of comprehensive business components that
can connect all of your systems and processes. Our platform is compatible with
most things out there, even closed-source software. With Liferay DXP, you aren’t
limited to buying software from one massive vendor. APIs, web services and
messaging services make it easy to unite third-party software and legacy systems
on Liferay DXP.

Flexibility for Your Business

Liferay DXP’s suite of business tools and features allows you to leverage core
technologies like portal servers and content management systems within one
cohesive platform that is secure, scalable and extensible. Liferay DXP includes
a broad set of out-of-the-box features so you can set up the majority of what you
need right away, then customize for your unique needs.

Organic Innovation
Liferay DXP is developed completely in-house, rather than through acquiring
third-party solutions. Rely upon a comprehensive platform with a full suite of
features that was designed from the start to work well together as the foundation
for your digital strategy.

Feature Highlights
Segmentation and Personalization
Meet customer demands for meaningful and seamless experiences across touchpoints
with robust segmentation and personalization tools. Continually improve these
experiences with content and user insights provided by Liferay Analytics Cloud.
Enhanced Segmentation: Easily personalize anything on a page for different
segments. The latest release of Liferay DXP provides improved segmentation
which includes a rule builder that can accommodate complex rules, session rules
to target visitors based on cookies, device or URL and extension points for use
case-specific segmentation rules. In addition, integrate advanced segmentation
rules provided in Liferay Analytics Cloud.
Content Recommendations: Automate personalization of content based on a
user’s past behavior powered by Liferay Analytics Cloud integration, such as
behavior-based and interest-based recommendations.

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Personalized Content Sets: Define content that can be reused through site pages
and across different channels. Easily execute personalized variations to display
different content depending on segmentation.
Analytics and Insights: Deliver the right content to the right audience with
insights about your pages, content and users from Liferay Analytics Cloud.

Content Management
Leverage content management tuned for enterprise teams, with tools to better
manage and deploy content to any digital channel.
Decoupled CMS: Because content management is detached from the front-end
with an API, users can publish content across multiple channels freely without
needing new front-end templates every time. Developers can leverage the
freedom of a headless system while business users still have the comfort of
traditional content management tools.
Structured Content: Manage and create different content models as needed,
to make sure your case-specific content management becomes a reality.
This also includes an improved content authoring interface, streamlined structured
content authoring, easy visibility to web content usages and reusable content sets.
Web content authors also have the ability to preview content before it’s published,
at any stage in the workflow and can also preview with any desired template or
within a specific page.
Auto-tagging: Liferay DXP enables content teams to work more efficiently by
automatically adding tags to images, web content and documents upon upload
through a machine learning service for improved search.
Enterprise DAM: Efficiently organize and share enterprise assets on one central
system with features such as bulk editing and tagging, peer-to-peer document
and asset sharing and editing, automatic versioning policies and integrated
online document editing with Google Docs.

Experience Management
Build and customize digital experiences that are tailored for your users’ needs
easily with the following capabilities on Liferay DXP.
Fragments: Easily and quickly build new pages with designed, reusable components.
Create fragments with out-of-the-box elements and component sets. Fragments use
in-line editing to change text and images and can incorporate Liferay DXP
applications for advanced functionality.

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In-Context Creation: Drag and drop to create page layouts with content,
fragments and widgets. Business users can even define complex custom page
layouts with the new section builder. In addition, map content to individual
sections with display page templates. Integration with Analytics Cloud also helps
provide insight into users, referrals and engagement.
Widgets: Empower business users to drag and drop from a generous collection
of out-of-the-box widgets for different business needs that can be easily added
to any page, including a JavaScript widget creator that can easily build front-end
apps using the latest libraries through a CLI tool.

Multichannel Support
From storefront to mobile to IoT, reach customers wherever they are with
multichannel experiences that can adapt to your channels and target segments
with ease.
Headless APIs: Give front-end developers headless freedom from back-end
conventions and structures. Developers can now focus on building great experiences
and do it simultaneously alongside content teams using content delivery,
management and participation APIs.
Adaptive Media: Liferay DXP dynamically adjusts images to best fit the screen size
and network speed of each device, addressing experience and performance issues.
Mobile Support: Rapidly develop native apps, create mobile experiences and
define mobile device rules using Liferay DXP as a mobile back end.

Integration and Interoperability

Liferay DXP can integrate across multiple back-end systems for a unified
user experience.
Improved Frontend Toolkits: Liferay JS Themes, Bundle and Fragment Toolkits
help developers create, update and maintain themes built on Liferay DXP as well
as help produce an OSGi bundle containing the needed NPM dependencies to
ensure that it runs when deployed to Liferay DXP.
Integration Framework: Liferay DXP is a central presentation layer platform for
integrating content and services from back-end or legacy applications. Liferay DXP
supports multiple methods to integrate, including SOAP, REST, RSS, as well as
proprietary APIs.
Upgrade Tool: A revamped Upgrade Tool simplifies the upgrade process from
previous versions of Liferay, reducing the amount of time spent troubleshooting.

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REST API Builder: This tool will help accelerate development by generating
scaffolding needed for business logic used for custom REST APIs.

Forms, Workflows and Business Process Automation

Accelerate and streamline business processes with robust features for creating
forms and workflows.
Form Creation and Rules: Design forms for everything from business process
automation to replacing complex paper applications. Create personalized forms
with conditional rules, which allows users to introduce dynamic behavior in forms.
Data Engine APIs: Use data engine APIs to help build flexible business applications.
Execute CRUD operations on data definitions to quickly assemble business
applications that can scale with flexibility.
Organization and User-Driven Workflows: Define any number of simple to
complex business processes or workflows, leveraging users, groups and roles
defined in Liferay DXP with a graphical workflow designer. In addition to these
organization-wide workflows, users can create individual workflows based on
their own requirements.
Workflow Process Analytics: Define any number of simple to complex business
processes or workflows, leveraging users, groups, roles and due dates for specific
tasks within the workflow process. Use progress analytics to see the status of all
open tasks within the workflow process in real-time.
See a complete list of features on page 7.

Liferay DXP’s Modular Core

Liferay DXP leverages a modular core, with benefits that include:
Standards Based Customization: Less reliance on underlying app server
technology makes it easier to create applications and extensions that now follow
an OSGi based approach.
Incremental Release Cycles: New features and bug fixes can be released on an
as-needed basis, eliminating the need to wait for major version releases.
Reliable Deployment: Deploying modules is now independent of underlying app
server technology, leading to fewer deployment issues and fewer server restarts.
Modern Development: Leverage modules that are smaller and more concise
than legacy portlet plugins. Rest assured since Liferay uses industry-based
development standards such as OpenAPI, Portlet 3.0, etc.

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Dynamic Dependency Resolution: Modules have built-in dependency resolution,
which makes it easier to determine what dependencies the application needs to
run and minimizes severe consequences from conflicts during deployment.

BROWSERS
JS
Liferay Native Metal.js ReactJS AngularJS Other JS IoT
Sync Apps Frameworks Computer Mobile Kiosk

API APPLICATIONS

AUTHORIZATION

PLATFORM SERVICES
Caching Workflow Analytics Scheduling
Auditing Authentication Message Bus Other Services

PERSISTENCE SEARCH INTEGRATION ADAPTERS

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Deployment Compatibility
Operating Systems Public and Private Clouds Application Servers Databases
CentOS Liferay DXP is deployable JBoss EAP Amazon Aurora
Debian to the cloud and virtualized tcServer DB2
environments
IBM AIX Tomcat MariaDB
Oracle Linux WebLogic MySQL
Oracle Solaris WebSphere Oracle
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Wildfly PostgreSQL
SUSE SQL Server
Ubuntu
Windows Server

Contact [email protected] for the latest list of supported configurations and versions.

Key Components
Analytics and Optimization
Insights
Page analytics Asset analytics Dynamic segments A/B testing
Path analytics Customer Profiles User Identity Services

See how Liferay Analytics Cloud further supports DXP: liferay.com/products/analytics-cloud.

Cloud Capability
Application Management Development Lifecycle Performance and Monitoring
Log management Continuous Integration Availability Usage (CPU, memory and
Shell access Continuous Deployment HTTP/2 data transfer)

Autoscaling Zero downtime deployments SSD Health

Backup and restore GitHub integration Self-healing Advanced monitoring

Multi-AZ database instance with Dynatrace Software
Environments management Dependency management Intelligence
Environment variables Persistent file system Real-time alerts
Custom domains Port configuration

See how Liferay DXP Cloud further supports DXP: liferay.com/products/dxp-cloud.

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Collaboration and Social
Shared Features Blogs Message Boards and Calendar
AlloyEditor Recent blogs lists Forums AJAX-based interface
Ratings/Comments Badge icon for social activity Recent Posts list, iCal and microformats
My Posts list support
RSS feeds Social bookmarks
Reader subscriptions Personal and group
Categories/Tags Inappropriate content
flagging Anonymous posting Task lists
Related assets
Friendly URLs File Attachments Resource scheduling
Reader subscriptions
Estimated reading time Support for categories/ Email, IM or
Polls threads reorganization
Embedded videos SMS event reminders
Bookmarks Inappropriate content
Inline image editing Alerts/Announcements
Wikis flagging
Microblogs Broadcast news or status
Versioning and reversion Inline image editing
Scheduled start/stop
Creole, HTML or Social Networking
MediaWiki syntax Site or role based targeting
Friends list
Attach files Activity wall
Threaded comments Activity tracker
Inline image editing Social Activity
Tagging

Content Management
Headless CMS Site Content Sharing Enterprise DAM and EFSS DAM and EFSS Integration
REST and headless APIs and Publishing Multi-repository support Document types and
Content Creation Dynamic and Customizable metadata sets
static site templates document types Preview generation
AlloyEditor
Drag-and-drop site maps Metadata per Search
Templating: FreeMarker
Sitemap protocol support document type Versioning
Global content sharing
between sites Friendly page URLs CMIS support Media Selector
Content sharing in Remote server staging Check in/check out Enterprise File Sync
site hierarchy and scheduling Content previews and Sharing
Reusable content sets Multiple site Live preview Mobile/desktop file
variations/versions synchronization using
Themes and Layout Automatic content
Faceted search versioning Liferay Sync
JavaScript framework:
Metal.js Recycle bin Bulk tag management WebDAV

CSS framework: Twitter User customizable pages Image and content Integration
Bootstrap Content analytics auto-tagging Google Docs integration
HTML 5.0 compliant Online document editing Microsoft Office© integration
Responsive mobile theme with Google Docs Office 365™ integration
Multiple page Peer-to-peer document
layout templates and asset sharing

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Experience Management
Experiences Widgets Pages
Fragments with editor Drag-and-drop interface Display page templates
Fragments Toolkit Widget Library Search engine optimization
Analytics Cloud integration

Forms, Workflow and Business Process Automation

Form Creation Form Management Conditional Rules Workflow
Autocomplete Shareable form URLs Require Define workflows per
Multi-page forms Redirect after Enable document type and folder

Configured success page form submission Autofill Versioning and reversion

Duplicate fields Workflow integration Show/hide Drafts

Clone forms Email notification Jump to page Localization

Autosave Versioning Calculation Duplicate workflows

Import/export data Element sets Belong to Preview revisions

provider definitions Validation API for customized rules User notifications
Localization Data storage Dynamic Data Lists Model workflows with
CAPTCHA enablement Form Fields a graphical interface or by
Boolean writing XML definitions
User authentication Paragraph Color Workflow metrics
Translations/ Text field Date
multi-language support Select from list Decimal
Data Engine APIs Single selection Documents and Media
Data provider integration Date Geolocation
Reports with Multiple selection
Liferay Analytics Cloud HTML
Grid Integer
Numeric Link to page
Upload Number
Radio
Select
Text
Text box
Web content
Localization

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Integration and Interoperability
Foundation Developer Tools Developer Studio Theme Developer
Integration framework Integrated development/ Java Languages

Workflow framework test environment JSF FreeMarker

Upgrade Tool Front-end toolkits Clay Lexicon

Custom fields Liferay Marketplace Groovy

REST API Builder Liferay Workspace JQuery
Modularity Liferay Connected Services Twitter Bootstrap
(LCS)
Metal.js
Blade CLI
ReactJS
AngularJS
Senna.js
Vaadin
Ruby, Scala and others

Multichannel Support
Headless Platform Support Native and Hybrid App Rating
Headless APIs iOS Development with Comment List
Liferay Screens
REST APIs Android Comment Display
Log in
Mobile Support Cordova Comment Add
Sign up
Mobile device rules Xamarin.iOS Asset Display
Forgot Password
Previews within browser Xamarin.Android Blogs entry display
User portrait
Responsive theme Adaptive Media Image display
DDL form
Device recognition Control image resolution Video display
and size per device DDL list
Eclipse-based Mobile SDK Audio display
Enable/disable rules Asset list
Service Builder PDF display
Automatic optimization Web content display
Push notifications File display
Web content list
Mobile Sync app Web page display
Image gallery

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Personalization and Context Awareness
Segmentation Segmentation Rules user attributes session attributes
Liferay Analytics Cloud behavior Age Browser
integration Content visited Gender Cookies
Personalize experiences Page visited Regular role Device
with page editor
Score based on content Site membership Location
Content Targeting and pages visited Site role Operating system
Content recommendations facebook profile
powered by Analytics Cloud Organization membership URL
Age Organization role
Personalized reusable
content sets City User group membership
Education Currently signed in
Friends User created date
Gender User last login date
Page likes Language
IP
Custom fields

Platform Services
Performance and Other Standards/ Other Back-End APIs
Scalability Technologies Asset
Clustering at any combination AJAX Cache
of tiers (presentation, service, JSR-362 (Portlet 3.0)
business logic and database) Comments
JSR-344 (JSF 2.2) Data handlers
Advanced caching
(e.g., Ehcache) Spring 3.0 File storage
Performance monitoring CMIS 1.0/1.1 Membership policies
support (JMX, Java profiling Hibernate collection Message bus
and more) of projects
Permissions
Single page applications OSGi Core 6.0
Ratings
Simplified UI SAML 2.0
Recycle bin
Multitenancy OAuth 1.½
Scheduler
Dynamic virtual hosting
Scripting
Upgrade
Workflow

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Search
Search Tools
Elasticsearch integration Multi-tier search Low-level search APIs
Faceted search Multi-language search Search administration tools

Security Administration and Access Control

Security Identity Management Web Services
Government-grade Support SOAP
encryption LDAP JSON
Pluggable authentication SAML REST
Email verification OAuth
Granular permissioning OpenSSO / OpenAM
LDAP authentication SiteMinder
Session management Facebook Login
Data protection for CAS
GDPR compliance OpenID Connect

What’s Next
Get Started With Liferay University
Liferay offers free access to Liferay University to active Liferay DXP
subscribers. Equip your entire team with self-paced lessons and
courses so that they can learn how to use Liferay anytime, anywhere on
their own schedule. Gain access to courses for content managers,
back-end and front-end developers and system administrators.
Learn more at university.liferay.com

Put Liferay DXP to the Test

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includes access to professional documentation, exclusive Liferay
Marketplace apps and more.
Get started at liferay.com/dxp-trial

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Liferay makes software that helps companies create digital
experiences on web, mobile and connected devices. Our platform is
open source, which makes it more reliable, innovative and secure.
We try to leave a positive mark on the world through business
and technology. Hundreds of organizations in financial services,
healthcare, government, insurance, retail, manufacturing and
multiple other industries use Liferay. Visit us at liferay.com.

© 2019 Liferay, Inc. All rights reserved.

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