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1 CONFIDENTIAL Munwar Shariff Chief Technology Officer [email protected]

Migration to Liferay @ United Business Media Information

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United Business Media Information (UBMi) selected CIGNEX Datamatics to migrate their 70+ web brands from various portal/web technologies such as Webvision, Contribute, Miramedia, Emojo, ASP.NET to Liferay. This presentation highlights the rationale behind adopting Liferay technology to address the business needs such as flexibility, vendor reliability, mobile portals, reducing cost of license, maintenance, support etc. By standardizing web brands portal platform into a single technology, UBMi was able to create flexible, scalable and secured portal platform at a reduced TCO.

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Munwar Shariff

Chief Technology Officer

[email protected]

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Agenda

• Liferay @ UBMi, A Success Story

• Who are UBMi?

• Why Liferay?

• Liferay Migration & Usage

• Business Benefits & Future Roadmap

• Datamatics CIGNEX Overview

• Questions & Answers

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Liferay @ UBMi

Success Story

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Who are UBMi?

• United Business Media Information (UBMi)

• Part of United Business Media, £850m Total Revenue

• 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries

• UBM Live, UBM Built Environment, UBM Connect, UBM Conferences and UBM International Media

• 100 + brands with websites

• Products include:

• Magazines, exhibitions, conferences, awards, information products and websites

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The CMS problem @ UBMi

• Multiple website platforms

• Webvision, Contribute, Miramedia, Emojo, ASP, etc.

• Difficult to support

• Expensive

• Licence fees

• Support

• Reliability on external suppliers (several went bust)

• Inflexible

• Limited control of content/site structure

• No sharing of functionality or content

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Solution Selection Criteria

• CMS Demos

• Liferay, Episerver, Sitecore, Miramedia, Squizz, Microsoft .NET ASP

• Usability

• Security

• Performance and Load Testing

• Functionality

• Lower Total Cost of Ownership

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Why Liferay?

• Open Source

• No Licence Fee

• Enterprise Quality Support

• Freedom To Develop

• Strong Community with Promising Roadmap

• OOB Functionality

• Highly Scalable, Flexible & Reusable

• Ease of Integration with external systems

• High Performance, 70+ sites running on 2 servers

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LR 4.3.6 Exhibition Sites

UBM IM – USe.g. HBA, Informexwww.informex.com

UBM IM – HollandFi, Hi, Ni, WPM, INfieurope.ingredientsnetwork.cm

LR 4.3.1 Magazine Sites:

Travel Trade Gazette www.ttglive.com

Caring Business www.caringbusiness.co.uk

Call Centre Focuswww.callcentre.co.uk

Chemist & Druggistwww.chemistanddruggist.co.uk

Cabinet Makerwww.cabinetmaker.co.uk

UBMi Liferay History

Mar 07 June 09Oct 07 July 09 – Ongoing Feb 08 Oct 08

Cmpi.bizwww.cmpi.biz

LR 5 Expo Sites

UBM IM –HollandCPhI, ICSE, P-Mec 2 siteswww.cphi.com

Conferences30+ sites

LR 5.2 CIGNEX Projects

1. Conferences CMS2. 52 Expo Sites – www.cphi.com3. Info4fire – www.info4fire.com4. Ignet – www.ingredientsnetwork.com5. NBA – www.nationalbusinessawards.com6. SHP – www.shponline.co.uk7. Ent Tech Magazines –

www.installationeurope.com8. Callcentre Portal – www.callcentre.co.uk9. SHP Mobile - mobile.shponline.co.uk10. CPHI Mobile - mobile.cphi.com11. KBB (On gong) - www.kbb.co.uk

LR 6.0 EE CIGNEX Projects

1. Pulse Today - www.pulsetoday.co.uk2. C & D - www.chemistanddruggist.co.uk

Sep 10

2009 BC 2009 AC

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Liferay 5.2 Dev Schedule

• Developed Custom CMS Tools

• Multiple expo/conference websites live

• Multiple Magazine suites of websites live

• Multiple Portal websites live

• Mobile Devices Support

• Total 70+ websites now on Liferay 5.x

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Custom CMS Tools Developed

• Theme Admin Tool

• Primary/Secondary Navigation, Page width, CSS, Omniture/GA

• Header Banner

• Web Content Migration Tool

• SEO friendly page URLs/HTML Title/Article URLs

• Product Directory

• New filterable search/Google site search

• User Registration/Shared registration

• Shared/Related/Most-read content/Gated content

• Data feeds to and from 3rd party systems

• Enhanced Article Display Lists/Commenting

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Fi Europe Conference

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TTG Luxury Conference

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CPhI China Exhibition

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HBA Global Exhibition

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GULF Landscaping Exhibition

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Installation Europe Magazine

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SHP Online Magazine

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Info4file Portal

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Callcentre Portal

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Mobile Portals

• Device Recognition

• Mobile Themes & Portlets

• Intuitive Navigation

• High Performance Mobile sites

• mobile.cphi.com

• mobile.shponine.co.uk

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New Mobile Features in Liferay

• Dynamic Theme Modification

• Primary/Secondary Navigation, Page width, CSS

• Leverage Content from main site – No need for recreating same content for mobile site

• Device Recognition and Automatic redirect

• Analytics Implementation - Omniture

• SEO friendly page URLs/HTML Title/Article URLs

• Shared/Related/Most-read content/Gated content

• Enhanced Article Display Lists/Commenting

• Enhanced Web Form Portlet

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Liferay 6.0 EE Dev Plan

• New Applications on Liferay 6.0

• Upgrade existing application to Liferay 6.0

• Leverage Business Rules Engine

• Implement Advanced Workflow

• Usability Enhancements

• Mobile Device Support

• Audit Trail

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Benefits of Liferay

• Templates based websites/ Reusability

• Shared Content

• In-house hosting

• Marketing teams in charge of content

• Massive cost reduction

• US 3 websites $180k per annum

• Expo/Magazine sites £100k’s per annum

• Corporate site ~ £21k per annum

“The team has been extremely professional in their approach and has an excellent understanding of Liferay. We have been very happy with our decision and would recommend them strongly”

Steve Johnston

Head of IT, UBMi

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Road Map

• To consolidate and migrate all existing online infrastructure using Liferay 6.0

• Explore new markets using “Mobile Portals”

• Upgrade existing Liferay sites to 6.0

• Ongoing development

• Further exhibition/magazine based functionality

• Advertising platform

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Datamatics CIGNEX Overview

LIFERAY PARTNER OF THE YEAR 2010

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Datamatics(Global SI)

CIGNEX(Liferay

Platinum Partner)

JV

LIFERAY(Liferay Portal)

Datamatics-CIGNEX

Datamatics CIGNEX

• Joint Venture between

• Datamatics Global Services, provider of smart, artificial intelligence-enabled next-generation solutions &

• CIGNEX, the leader in commercial Open Source solutions

• Mission

• To drive business efficiency & productivity by providing innovative and cost-effective Enterprise Open Source solutions

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Open Source Credentials

• Background

• 11 Years experience in implementing Open Source solutions

• 400+ employees in two primary lines of business

• Offices in the US, UK, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and India

• Enterprise Open source solutions implemented using Liferay (Portal), Alfresco (ECM), Drupal (WCM), Intalio (BPM), Pentaho (BI), Magento (E-commerce), OpsView (Infra Monitoring), Compiere (ERP), Redhat/Jboss (Middleware)

• Expertise

• 200+ Solution Implementations with Extensive experience

• Master Trainers of Liferay, Alfresco, Drupal and Magento

• Delivery Model

• Distributed Delivery Model to provide true cost efficiencies

• Commercial Open Source with Enterprise Support & Upgrades

• Agile Methodology to realize the benefits faster

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Commercial Open Source to reduce TCO -drastically

• Partnerships

• Platinum Partner of Liferay (only one globally)

• Platinum Partner of Alfresco

• Silver Partner of Intalio

• Gold Partner of Pentaho

• Redhat, JBOSS, Acquia, Compiere & Opsera

• Certified SAP Partner

• AT&T Hosting Partner

• Top 10 Open Source services vendors Worldwide – IDC 2006

• Deep technical expertise with 7 major books written in this domain

• Implemented the largest Open source Enterprise Content Management system in the world

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Published Works

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Open Source

Integration

Offerings & Focus

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Open Source Labs

Template driven -> Efficiency, CommunityOffshore leveraged -> Cost EffectiveCompetence -> High Quality

Scalable R&D capacity -> FlexibilityOffshore leveraged -> Cost Effective

Metrics and SLA driven delivery -> Deterministic ROI

Open Source Technologies

EngineeringCustomer Support

Professional Services

Methodology & Governance

AgileAutomation

Knowledge Enabled

Ongoing R&D

Enablement & Migration Services

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If you want to decrease the TCO of your Portal deployments by up to 90%

Contact

Munwar Shariff

[email protected]