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Liferay Introduction
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.
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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
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Global Clients and Deployments
Media/Publishing Manufacturing / Automotive Not-for-Profit
CMP Medica SEAT Case Foundation
CMP Information DEKRA Goodwill Industries International
CMP Media Robert Bosch UN International Fund for
DirecTV IFM Electronic Agriculture Development
Large German Newspaper (55m hits/yr) World Vision
Kanal 5 (TV, Sweden) Retail / Services
Universal Music Group AutoZone Government
Mitsubishi-Fuso US Department of State
Software/Technology Oakwood Worldwide US Air Force
United Colors of Benetton US Army
Actuate
European Union
Borland Software
Telecom French Armament Procurement Agency
FireScope
Covad Communications NASA
Novell
Deutsch Telecom Colorado State Department of Human
Symantec
(T-Mobile) Services
Sun Microsystems
LG, Inc.
Financial Services O2 (UK) Limited Education
Employers Direct Insurance Company Pantech USA Penn State
HanseMerkur Cisco Discovery Education
Large Wireless Equipment Madrid School System
Noridian Mutual Insurance Company
Manufacturer Harvard Business School
Sparkasse KölnBonn
Washington University in St. Louis
Allianz North America
Allianz Australia Travel
Global Investment Bank in Germany Lufthansa
Pioneering Online Brokerage British Airways
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Liferay OEM and distributed usage
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.
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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
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How do Enterprises use Liferay?
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
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Product Detail: Liferay Portal
Enterprise portals encompass search,
CMS, collaboration, social
networking, enterprise web 2.0.
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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 Easy text editor Built-in user management
subscriptions
RSS support and email Versioning and reversion
Threads management notifications of blog replies capabilities
Support for sticky posts Threaded user and guest Multiple Wikis per deployment
comments
Statistics and recent posts
Tags and labels
An entry rating system
Social bookmarking links
Mail Shared Calendars Enterprise Chat RSS feeds Dynamic Tagging
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Product Detail: Liferay Journal
Liferay Journal is Liferay Portal's built-in content management system, ready to deliver
portal-based web publishing and document management.
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.
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Product Detail: Social Networking
Social Networking for the Enterprise leverages seamless integration with Liferay CMS and
Liferay Collaboration to create functional social networks suited to meet business needs.
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
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Case Studies
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Client Stories
“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
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
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Client Stories
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
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.
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Client Stories
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
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
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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
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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. A J2EE stack using Liferay was measured among
I was impressed with the solid administration, eight different portal solutions as delivering :
flexible deployment options, and how much • The highest average hits per second
functionality comes out of the box.” • The 2nd highest average throughput per second
Mike Heck, InfoWorld • The 3rd highest average document download time
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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
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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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