Liferay Portal Business Benefits

"Business friendly" means more than just cost savings.

Give management the best product with the lowest risk.

Improving the top line while watching the bottom line can be difficult, time consuming and costly in today's fast-moving market place. Hence, having the right tools to save you time and money is crucial to achieving smooth-running operations.

At Liferay, we are committed to offering quality products that yield the highest return on investment (ROI) at the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO). Thanks to our open source heritage, our features have been fine tuned over the past nine years in response to the feedback of users in a wide spectrum of industries and user roles. We understand the impact that usability, interoperability, and open standards can have on an organization's processes and have designed Liferay Portal accordingly. The absence of license fees is only secondary in importance to the value that our technology brings.

Here is a summary of the key business benefits of using Liferay Portal:

Try it risk free.

Upfront costs are nonexistent so there is no financial risk to trying Liferay Portal. It also runs in virtually any IT environment. This means that you can download and use it right away without having to worry about whether it will work and what you have to change (or whom you'll need to hire) in order to make it work. Just use what you have.

Keep it for low TCO.

When you choose to keep Liferay Portal your organization gains the lowest total cost of ownership as a result of the quality of our industry leading technology. 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.).

Moreover, the award-winning portal is easy to learn and use for even the least technical of users in your organization. Hence, maintenance and management are easy on both time, budget and human resources.

Keep ROI high and business agile.

In addition to ease of use, Liferay Portal's flexibility helps your organization evolve, delivering high ROI regardless of how your needs change. If you require new functionality, tools can be added with just a few clicks. If your organization suddenly expands, there's no need to spend time and money for a new solution--an company intranet built on Liferay Portal can, for example, be easily evolved into an extranet that reaches outside partners.

At a higher level, our built-in workflow engine allows your portal project to quickly reflect and adapt to business process changes that inevitably occur in today’s marketplace when M&A, business evolution and new product lines are more than common. 

Implement it for the global enterprise.

Extensive out of the box language support serves you whether you work for a global company with teams all over the world or for an up-and-coming firm that may need other language options in the future.

Gain the most business flexibility.

Liferay Portal is offered under the MIT Open Source license, which allows you to use, modify, or distribute Liferay at absolutely no cost. If you want to customize the product, you can. If you want to create your own product using our technology and resell it, you can—We don’t expect anything back. It’s all yours.

In fact, 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.

Stay secure.

Liferay Portal uses industry standard, government-grade encryption technologies, so you can always be confident in the security of your data. Log in once to access all your files. Varying layers of security with customized access to sensitive information also lets you control who sees what.

From investment banks to the Department of Defense and other government agencies, Liferay Portal is a trusted solution that keeps confidential information safe.

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.

If you need help with your portal solution, support, consulting and training are provided by this same core team that work on the product day in and day out.