Liferay Introduces Liferay Sync with Powerful Document-Sharing Abilities

Liferay Sync synchronizes content across mobile, desktop, and web

LOS ANGELES — (February 1, 2012) — Liferay, Inc., provider of the world’s leading enterprise-class open source portal, announced today the availability of Liferay Sync, a powerful document-sharing add-on to the Community Edition (CE) of Liferay Portal 6.1. Liferay Sync transforms the Liferay platform into a central, easy-to-use document sharing service.

With Liferay Sync, users now have the ability to access documents stored within a Liferay instance from their mobile devices and desktops. Documents can be dragged and dropped into a synchronized folder and then be edited, moved, or deleted. Sync automatically takes care of revision management. 

A key benefit for Liferay users is access to documents offline; the documents synchronize when users are back online. A single user can make a change to a document on their desktop, which is then synchronized with the central server and updated for all other users who share that folder.  In these ways, Liferay Portal becomes a central repository for documents, opening up new avenues of collaboration for a distributed group of users.

"Liferay Sync was designed to combine the benefits of a web application with the user interaction benefits of a desktop or mobile application," said Edwin Chung, Liferay's VP of Product Management. "The web allows centralized data and group access, and the desktop provides a rich way to search, access and manipulate documents.  But while Office Web Apps and Google Docs require you to store a copy on the server and edit documents in a browser, Liferay Sync allows users to leverage any desktop or mobile office package, such as MS Office, OpenOffice, iWork, or Photoshop, to edit and save documents locally while either online or offline.”

“The launch of Liferay Sync is an exciting and significant product release for our company,” said Brian Chan, Liferay’s founder and Chief Software Architect. “The ability to combine desktop and mobile interfaces with a web service takes the Liferay experience to new heights of simplicity and enrichment for our end users.”

Starting today with the beta form of Liferay Sync, Liferay Portal CE users can synchronize their documents within one Liferay Site. A coming edition of Liferay Sync for Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition (EE) will allow users to share documents across an unlimited number of Liferay Sites on one installation. Liferay Sync is compatible with Windows, Mac OS, and iOS.

For more about Liferay Sync, visit www.liferay.com/products/liferay-sync.

About Liferay

Liferay, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise open source portal and collaboration software products, servicing Fortune 500 companies worldwide, including Allianz, Barclay’s, BASF, Cisco Systems, Lufthansa Flight Training, Société Générale, The French Ministry of Defense, and the United Nations. Liferay offers Enterprise Edition subscriptions, which provide access to emergency fixes, software updates, 24/7 support SLAs, and subscription-only features. Liferay also offers professional services and training to ensure successful deployments for its customers. Liferay, Liferay Portal, and the Liferay logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Liferay, Inc., in the United States and other countries.

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Rebecca Cho

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Liferay Announces Rapid Community Growth in 2011

Liferay Sync, Liferay Portal 6.1 EE set to launch with strong open-source community momentum

LOS ANGELES — (January 24, 2012) — Liferay, Inc., provider of the world’s leading enterprise-class open source portal, announced today the expansion of its community to 56,000 members in 2011, a nearly 40 percent increase over the previous year. The participation of the Liferay community continues to strengthen the portal provider's offerings, including the new Liferay Sync and Liferay Portal 6.1 Enterprise Edition, both planned for release later this quarter.

Liferay’s community saw an average growth of 1,300 members per month in 2011, with increased contributions to forums, wiki posts, blogs, code contributions and activity in special projects teams.  Forum posts, which represent the amount of online knowledge and online community support for questions, rose 25 percent, while the number of new members who are contributing to posts grew 10 percent and the number of posts quantified as useful by the original poster of the question increased by over 125 percent. 

“Liferay’s commitment to community and open source development has been apparent in the healthy growth and enthusiasm of our community members,” said James Falkner, Liferay’s Community Manager. “Last year, our renewed emphasis on our worldwide community led to the creation of new programs, such as the BugSquad and Liferay Community Leadership, aimed to engage, equip and help coordinate all the great people and ideas that feed our open-source, open-community dialogue.”

The creation last year of the BugSquad led to important contributions from the community, through usability testing and functional bug finding, for a major product release—Liferay Portal 6.1 CE. Liferay also started the Liferay Community Leadership program as a means to identify leaders and strengthen contributions from the community through improved organization and structure. Last year also saw the addition of 18 new User Groups, regional grassroots organizations for the global Liferay community.

Strong momentum in the Liferay community is in place for new 2012 initiatives, including Liferay Community Projects, Community Blog Stream, Developer Contests and the upcoming Liferay University. In addition, Liferay is set for major product launches this quarter including powerful file-sharing technology Liferay Sync and the latest version of the company’s flagship product, Liferay Portal 6.1 EE.

For more information about the Liferay Portal and Liferay’s community activities, visit www.liferay.com.

About Liferay

Liferay, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise open source portal and collaboration software products, servicing Fortune 500 companies worldwide, including Allianz, Barclay’s, BASF, Cisco Systems, Lufthansa Flight Training, Société Générale, The French Ministry of Defense, and the United Nations. Liferay offers Enterprise Edition subscriptions, which provide access to emergency fixes, software updates, 24/7 support SLAs, and subscription-only features. Liferay also offers professional services and training to ensure successful deployments for its customers. Liferay, Liferay Portal, and the Liferay logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Liferay, Inc., in the United States and other countries.

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Liferay, Inc.

Rebecca Cho

1-877-LIFERAY

pr@liferay.com

Liferay Announces Support for New WCM Standard Initiative

Enterprise portal provider moves to strengthen interoperability in content management space

LOS ANGELES — (December 20, 2011) — Liferay, Inc., provider of the world’s leading enterprise-class open source portal, announced its support of a new open standard initiative aimed at improving the presentation and interoperability of content across WCM systems. As a rich content publishing platform, Liferay maintains a leadership role in pushing for standards that will help end users attain long-term benefits from their investments in Liferay products.

The new initiative, Web Experience Management Interoperability (WEMI), represents an evolution in WCM and is set to increase interoperability between WCM vendors, thereby driving down costs of web content integration and publishing. Formed through the standards organization OASIS, of which Liferay is a longtime Sponsor member, WEMI will allow for interoperability in the delivery of web content. Existing standards only address content interoperability at the lower data level, which forces customers to implement costly customized solutions at the content presentation layer.  

"Liferay fully supports the OASIS WEMI Charter. We see immense benefits to improving the interoperability of WCM systems and enabling rich content consumption on modern web experience platforms," said James Falkner, Liferay’s Community Manager.

Liferay’s commitment to remain on the cutting edge of emerging technology developments has led to the adoption of forward-thinking industry standards in Liferay Portal such as CMIS, WebDAV and JCR.  WEMI further supports Liferay’s vision of an open, heterogeneous, yet deeply interconnected web platform, allowing Liferay to serve as a modern WCM system, a social collaboration site, or many other uses in today’s web-powered environments.

In addition to benefiting end users, extensibility of WEMI will allow Liferay partners to reuse solutions for multiple clients and become domain experts without learning multiple technologies, saving them time and money.

Liferay is committed to supporting WEMI in a future Liferay release. WEMI is in the process of forming its Technical Committee and will have its initial meeting in January 2012. 

For more about Liferay Portal, visit www.liferay.com.

About Liferay

Liferay, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise open source portal and collaboration software products, servicing Fortune 500 companies worldwide, including Allianz, Barclay’s, BASF, Cisco Systems, Lufthansa Flight Training, Société Générale, The French Ministry of Defense, and the United Nations. Liferay offers Enterprise Edition subscriptions, which provide access to emergency fixes, software updates, 24/7 support SLAs, and subscription-only features. Liferay also offers professional services and training to ensure successful deployments for its customers. Liferay, Liferay Portal, and the Liferay logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Liferay, Inc., in the United States and other countries.

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Rebecca Cho
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Liferay Recognizes B2B 2000 in Spain as a Platinum Partner
Partner award comes with portal provider’s growth in Europe

Los Angeles, CA -- Liferay, Inc., provider of the world’s leading enterprise-class open source portal, announced today that B2B 2000, an IT consulting firm specializing in management system integrations in Spain, has become a Liferay Platinum Partner.

B2B 2000 is Liferay’s first Platinum Partner in Spain. The recognition is indicative of Liferay’s overall growth in Spain and Portugal, which saw revenue double between 2009 and 2010, with a continued increase expected this year. The growth has come as open-source technologies adoption, initially strong in Spain’s government sector, has accelerated into private industries.

Also, more of the region’s top companies are recognizing the business benefits of the high-quality support provided through the Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition and Liferay’s strengthening partner network. Over the past three years, Liferay has built its partner network to cover the entire national territory, leading to 16 partners in Spain and one partner in Portugal thus far.

“B2B 2000 has been a valuable Liferay partner for the past five years, facilitating high quality Liferay implementations and demonstrating a deep understanding of today’s enterprise environment,” said Bryan Cheung, Liferay’s CEO. “We look forward to seeing more great things from B2B 2000 and all of our partners in Spain and Portugal as Liferay devotes itself to meeting the region’s enterprise portal platform needs.”

"B2B 2000, as a company specializing in knowledge management solutions and the integration of management systems, has found in Liferay the perfect platform to help our customers to obtain the best option into the open source world,” said José Manuel Alvariño, CEO of B2B 2000. “In this way, B2B 2000 has developed a lot of great projects, getting excellent results and customer satisfaction, thanks to Liferay’s strong platform and its provided features, as well as its ability to adapt to customer needs. B2B 2000 is pleased to be a Liferay Platinum partner offering certified training and development and maintenance services. This has strengthened B2B 2000’s bet on this product and has helped us grow in the market and actively collaborate in the Liferay community.”

For more about Liferay Portal, visit www.liferay.com. Find additional information about B2B 2000 at www.b2b2000.com.

About B2B 2000
B2B 2000 is an IT consulting firm specializing in the integration of management systems and knowledge management solutions, with extensive experience developing Web 2.0 portals, intranets, extranets, corporate portal platforms and the implementation of integration architectures in large organizations. Certified staff members are highly qualified in Liferay, the result of experience implementing many projects, both for private enterprises and public administrations. Companies are advised by B2B 2000 to identify points of improvement to harness technological advances even further and to satisfy increased requirements from users through the optimization of their own resources and through fast and effective incorporation into the information society.

About Liferay:
Liferay, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise open source portal and collaboration software products, counting as clients Fortune 500 companies worldwide, including Allianz, Barclay’s, BASF, Cisco Systems, Lufthansa Flight Training, Société Générale, The French Ministry of Defense, and the United Nations. Liferay offers Enterprise Edition subscriptions, which provide access to emergency fixes, software updates, 24/7 support SLAs, and subscription-only features. Liferay also offers professional services and training to ensure successful deployments for its customers. Liferay, Liferay Portal, and the Liferay logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Liferay, Inc., in the United States and other countries.

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Liferay Positioned in the “Leaders” Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals
Evaluation based on completeness of vision and ability to execute

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB -- Liferay, Inc., provider of the world’s leading enterprise-class open source portal, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the “Leaders” quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals. Gartner, a leading information technology research and advisory company, placed Liferay in the Leaders quadrant based on completeness of vision and ability to execute on that vision. Liferay was one of five portal providers included in the Leaders quadrant. Download the full report here or follow the link from http://www.liferay.com/about-us/awards.

“The Leaders in this Magic Quadrant have a full range of capabilities to support a variety of portal deployment scenarios, and have demonstrated consistent product delivery in meeting customer needs for a substantial period of time,” wrote Gartner analyst Jim Murphy in the Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals report. “Leaders have delivered significant product innovation over the course of their pursuit of portal customers, and have been successful in selling to new customers across industries.”

“We consider our positioning in the Leaders quadrant by Gartner confirmation of our mission to enable customers to bring their people, applications, and information together to improve business performance,” said Bryan Cheung, CEO of Liferay. “Liferay’s commitment to meeting its clients’ needs through a dynamic commercial open source business model has helped the company establish itself as a significant player in the enterprise portal market. With the latest version of our flagship product, Liferay Portal 6.1, we further enhance our market position.”

Liferay Portal 6.1, introduced in the fall of 2011, builds on the platform’s strengths with new collaboration, web content management and significant document management upgrades, plus an improved human interface design for publishing and site management. New non-developer features give power users tools to build web forms and web-based processes.

Liferay Portal 6.1 CE and EE GA will be available to the public in Q4 2011. Liferay community members can receive the latest build by contacting Liferay’s Community Manager at james(dot)falkner(at)liferay(dot)com.

About the Magic Quadrant:
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2011 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Liferay:
Liferay, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise open source portal and collaboration software products, counting as clients Fortune 500 companies worldwide, including Allianz, Barclay’s, BASF, Cisco Systems, Lufthansa Flight Training, Société Générale, The French Ministry of Defense, and the United Nations. Liferay offers Enterprise Edition subscriptions, which provide access to emergency fixes, software updates, 24/7 support SLAs, and subscription-only features. Liferay also offers professional services and training to ensure successful deployments for its customers. Liferay, Liferay Portal, and the Liferay logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Liferay, Inc., in the United States and other countries.

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Liferay, Inc.
Rebecca Cho
1-877-LIFERAY
pr@liferay.com
Twitter: Liferay