Liferay Portal

What is a Portal?

A portal is a web-based gateway for users to locate relevant content and use the applications they commonly need to be productive.

It offers compelling benefits to today’s enterprises: reduced operational costs, improved customer satisfaction, and streamlined business processes.

Liferay Portal is the world's leading open source enterprise portal solution using the latest in Java and Web 2.0 technologies.

  • Built in Content Management System (CMS) & Collaboration Suite
  • Out-of-the-box usablility—choose from over 60 portlets
  • Out-of-the-box development tools
  • Out-of-the-box localization to 22 languages!
  • Runs on all major application servers, databases and operating systems
  • Benchmarked among the most secure portal platforms
  • Business-friendly MIT License

 

Created for the enterprise, Liferay Portal provides a virtual space where you can centralize, share and collaborate.

Built with the end user in mind, Liferay Portal's award winning user interface is easy enough to master by even the least technical of users.

Liferay Portal also remains one of the most popular portal technologies within the developer community with an ever-growing list of features that help your IT team deploy business solutions with minimal time and effort.

"Liferay Portal...rivals many commercial portal platforms in both functionality and technology..."

 

--InfoWorld 2007 Technology of the Year Awards:

Best Open Source Portal

Created for the Enterprise

Personalization and easy customization

Give the right people the right access to the right applications and documents! A highly granular permissioning system allows you to customize the user experience at the organizational and personal level.

Workflow adaptable

Liferay’s technology is built to quickly adapt business and organizational changes, ensuring minimal downtime in today’s fast-changing market.

Branding friendly

Liferay Portal is coded to easily adapt to your organization’s desired branding and look and feel.

Flexible organization

Liferay Portal is highly scalable for large, growing user bases. It accommodates the functional needs of even the most complex of enterprises--For example, your sub organizations can each be given its own portal experience with unique URL, login, look and feel and security permissions! 

 

Key Business Benefits

How do people use Liferay?

"Putting aside other standards, which our four portal finalists all follow, the compelling argument for winner Liferay Portal can be summed up by mentioning usability, architecture, security, integration, and portlets. Liferay's intuitive user experience, featuring drag-and-drop portlet arrangement and management, is tops."

 

-- InfoWorld BOSSIE Award 2007

Built With The End-User In Mind

Liferay Portal’s award winning user interface offers dynamic, intuitive and time saving features that fosters user adoption across your entire organization.

Award-winning UI

Liferay Portal offers dynamic, intuitive and time saving features that foster user adoption across your entire organization. We were the first portal to introduce drag-and-drop portlet re-positioning and continue to deliver innovative usability features for even the least technical of users!

One-Click Look and Feel Changes

Deploy a new look and feel with one click without having to touch any code!

Web OS

Work with Liferay’s Document Library like a network drive on your desktop with familiar folders. An optional free-floating portlet theme mimics the look and feel of your desktop environment.

 

Key Business Benefits

How do people use Liferay?

 

Technology to Help Developers

Protect your development investment. Liferay Portal’s active and mature community always keeps the developer experience in mind.

Standards Compliant

Liferay Portal complies with key industry standards, making it easy to work and integrate with.

Ready Integration

Partnerships with leading Open Source players such as Alfresco, ICEsoft, SpringSource, and Pentaho ensure unparalleled integration and support for these widely-used technologies.

Liferay Plugins Catalog

This exclusive feature of Liferay Portal keeps track of new versions of the software and instantly updates  the technology without troublesome restarts.

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Built in Developer Tools

Liferay Plugins Software Development Kit

Liferay's exclusive tool enables developers to easily create their own portlets and themes.

Liferay Installation Wizard

An easy to use windows setup installer with automatic Java SDK detection.

Liferay ServiceBuilder

Liferay's exclusive tool helps developers get their code enabled for Web Services, Spring and AJAX so they can focus on writing the business logic. LiferayPedia Explanation

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