LIFERAY – portal

Salient features –

Out-of-the-box Tools - Liferay Portal provides more out of the box portlets than any other portal on the market—

Choose from over 60 to customize your work environment. Included are Liferay CMS and Liferay Collaboration

offering web publishing, content management, collaboration and social networking.

SOA Framework - Liferay Portal is developed using an open SOA strategy that makes it the choice of

enterprises worldwide for enterprise application integration. Integrate your existing HR, Accounting or Sales

systems and any other sources of important data.

Secure Single Sign On (SSO) - Aggregate and access your content and applications in one place. Liferay Portal

can pull all of your different systems together and make them available by logging in just once via the secure

SSO.

Granular, Role-Based Authorizations - To ensure that the right people control the right information, portal

administrators can assign individual users or groups of users different "roles" that grant varying levels of access

and editing rights to specific communities, files, applications and tools. For example, a "Sales Director" can view

and edit all sales documents but a "Sales Assistant" can only view them.

Communities & Organizations - Liferay users can be intuitively grouped into a hierarchy of "organizations" or

cross-organizational "communities," providing flexibility and ease of administration.

For example, members of different geographies such as Americas and EMEA can be grouped into organizations,

whereas disciplines such as sales, marketing, and engineering that cross geographies can be created as

communities. Each such group can also be given a separate mini portal with its own set of pages, content

management system, shared calendar, and authorizations. A user can belong to multiple groups and easily

navigate between them.

Single-Click Configuration - A fast, responsive interface makes Liferay Portal extremely easy and enjoyable to

use for everyone in your organization. Typically time-consuming tasks such as altering a page layout, adding new

applications and content, and changing look and feel can all be done in a couple of clicks without ever refreshing

the page.

Dynamic Drag & Drop - Liferay Portal was the first portal to offer this feature, allowing users to move different

elements around in the portal by simply dragging and dropping them into place.
Work From Your Desktop - Link to Liferay Portal from your desktop. Just drag your files into familiar "WebDAV"

desktop folders and they are automatically uploaded to your portal.

Search & Tagging - Tag web content, documents, message board threads and more to dynamically share

important or interesting content with other portal users.

Users can then search for relevant information within specific portlets, communities, within the entire portal and

even within external integrated applications.

Personal User Pages - All users get a personal space that can be made public (published as a website with a

unique friendly URL) or kept private. You can customize how the space looks, what tools and applications are

included, what goes into the document library and who can see and access it all.

Multi-language Support - International or multi-lingual organizations get out of the box support for 22

languages. Users can toggle between different language settings with just one click. You can also easily add

other languages.

LIFERAY as a collaboration tool –

Wikis - Build up and document important or interesting information as a community with Liferay's Wiki, which

competes with standalone products in the robustness of feature set.

Each community gets its own Wiki with its own set of authorizations. Anyone with editing rights can quickly

contribute information to these online topical encyclopedias.

Message Boards - Message Boards are a perfect solution for facilitating conversations around shared ideas

within a department or project team, or for capturing and sharing the tacit knowledge of the workgroup.

Liferay offers views of message board activity statistics and recent posts and users can both subscribe to threads

via RSS and reply to threads by email. Like all other portlets, Message Boards are secured by Liferay's granular

system of authorizations which grants varying levels of control to different users.

Blogs - Liferay's Blogs provide the best features of modern blogging tools coupled with the benefits of the

community-centric nature of Liferay Portal. They allow users to convey information and facilitate conversations

around blogs directly in the context of a website, intranet, extranet, or social network.
Features include a user-friendly rich text editor, social bookmarking links, email notifications of blog replies, and

an entry rating system. All blogs can be subscribed to via RSS and users can schedule entries to be published at

specific times and dates.

RSS - Subscribe to frequently read RSS feeds from message boards and blogs within the portal.

Activity Tracking - Keep tabs on the most recent activity on Liferay Blogs, Message Boards, Wiki and other

tools. This information is displayed in "Recent Activity" portlets and on a Facebook-like Activity Wall.

Instant Message - A friends list automatically displays the names of all other logged-in portal users. If you have

something to say, just IM them. You also get familiar chat features like profile pictures and customized away

messages. For your convenience, chat boxes stay at the bottom of your screen and follow you as you navigate

through the portal while conversations remain secure behind your organization's firewall.

Email - If you need to send an email, do it directly through the portal. A full AJAX-based webmail client with a

sleek, user-friendly interface can be configured to interface with many popular IMAP email servers.

Shared Calendar - Community-based calendars with task lists allow users to create, manage, and search for

events. Events can be shared across communities, and event reminders can be set up to alert users of upcoming

events by email, IM, or SMS. Microformats and Calendaring support allow you to transfer calendar and user

information via Web 2.0 standards.

Announcements & Alerts - Broadcast messages to different group of users whether they are simple

announcements or "newsletter"-like in purpose. Each user can control how they receive alerts: via portal-based

web alert, SMS, Email or any additional delivery mechanisms configured by the portal administrator.

Polls - Multiple choice polls can be created with this tool that also keeps track of votes. Many separate polls can

be managed and a separate portlet can be configured to display a specific poll’s results.

LIFERAY – For end users

Personalize your own work experience.

Liferay Portal lets you design your work experience with a fully customizable personal space. You can change

how your space looks, what tools and applications are included, what goes into your personal document library
and which of your friends and colleagues can access it all. You can also pull in your personal email and calendar

events.

Beyond the absence of license fees, it provides the most flexibility in terms of use cases and long term

maintenance. While other portals make you pay for extra features, Liferay Portal comes with over 60 tools, over

20 themes (skins), and a number of developer tools to provide you with as many resources as possible to

accomplish whatever it is that you want to do (web publishing, collaboration, social networking, administration,

etc.).

Companies like Novell and Sun Microsystems have already built their own enterprise products on top of Liferay

Portal, leveraging the flexibility of our framework and the openness of our technology.

Ensure long term viability.

Liferay Portal promises business security and long term viability that surpasses that of the competition.

While commercial products can dissolve and change at the whim of investors or high level business decisions,

open source products thrive as long as there is a community surrounding it.

Liferay Portal is in its ninth year of development and has an active, international community that continues to

develop and push the product forward. The community also reassures you that Liferay Portal will not stay

stagnant but will continue to evolve with ideas and contributions that speak to the needs of a diverse audience of

both business and technical users.

Moreover, unlike many open source projects, Liferay Portal is backed by a stable and profitable global company

with impressive revenue growth and a roster of talented developers that are fully dedicated to the product’s

ongoing development and innovation.