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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/PublishingCMP MedicaCMP InformationCMP MediaDirecTVLarge German Newspaper (55m hits/yr)Kanal 5 (TV, Sweden)Universal Music Group

Software/TechnologyActuateBorland SoftwareFireScopeNovellSymantecSun Microsystems

Financial ServicesEmployers Direct Insurance CompanyHanseMerkurNoridian Mutual Insurance CompanySparkasse KölnBonnAllianz North AmericaAllianz AustraliaGlobal Investment Bank in GermanyPioneering Online Brokerage

Not-for-ProfitCase FoundationGoodwill Industries InternationalUN International Fund for Agriculture DevelopmentWorld Vision

GovernmentUS Department of StateUS Air ForceUS ArmyEuropean UnionFrench Armament Procurement AgencyNASAColorado State Department of Human Services

EducationPenn StateDiscovery EducationMadrid School SystemHarvard Business SchoolWashington University in St. Louis

Manufacturing / AutomotiveSEATDEKRARobert BoschIFM Electronic

Retail / ServicesAutoZoneMitsubishi-FusoOakwood WorldwideUnited Colors of Benetton

TelecomCovad CommunicationsDeutsch Telecom (T-Mobile) LG, Inc. O2 (UK) LimitedPantech USACiscoLarge Wireless Equipment Manufacturer

TravelLufthansaBritish 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, CIOGoodwill Industries International

ClientGoodwill 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.

DeliverablesPublic 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.

ClientCisco 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.

DeliverablesDeveloper.cisco.com, an online developer network

Project Scope2 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

ClientOCLC 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.

DeliverablesWebJunction.org, an online community for library staff.

Project Scope6 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


Enterprise Edition

Devices & Hardware

Liferay overview