Liferay Portal is the leading open-source portal solution for the enterprise, offering collaboration, social out-of-the-box and content management. Liferay offers a good alternative to SharePoint. Our Liferay consultants have achieved high level of expertise in delivering compelling business solutions based on Liferay.
The primary aim of any business is to enable its stakeholders with a Digital Experience Platform that connect devices and users on a unified platform.
- Proven real world performance with marquee clients across industries
- Rapid innovation with customer-contributed sponsored development
- A strong community with roughly 4 million downloads and 350,000-500,000 worldwide deployments
- Content & Document Management with Microsoft Office integration
- Web Publishing and Shared Workspaces
- Enterprise Collaboration
- Social Networking and Mashups
- Enterprise Portals and Identity Management
- eCommerce Solutions
Liferay Portal Development has provisions and advanced features that make is effective and go-to technology to develop portals. Here are the reasons why businesses should develop portals with Liferay.
1. Lowest Total Cost of Ownership:
Compared to other portal development platforms like Drupal and Joomla, Liferay is easy to install and open source. It delivers greater cost savings with lower development and operational costs. Moreover, it is easy to use and easily available.
2. Bountiful out-of-the-box (OOTB) functionalities:
Liferay consists of many Out-of-the-box features like core portal, content management, social, mobile, security etc. These features and there are 60 other make it a preferable enterprise portal development solution compared to other platforms.
3. New Hook and Extension Plugin:
Liferay has a new Hook and Extension plugin that gives you the liberty to develop a product using the old code. It allows change/ modification of your portal as you’re your business requirement without re-writing the whole code.
4. Product innovation:
Liferay introduces new features and version very quickly. It identifies gaps in the market with their requirement analysis and rolls out a version upgrade with new features to mitigate them. This is the reason Liferay is redefining customer experience with new social, mobile, AJAX or URL configuration.
5. Boost-up business agility:
Drag and Drop like functionalities ease the burden on the management team. They can configure, tailor and develop custom functionalities that meet various business objectives. Liferay’s unique workflow APIs save time and allows the creation of custom APIs.
6. Complete Customization Independence:
Liferay gives you a full choice of application servers, databases, and operating systems to run on. Features that allow developers and businesses to create tailored modules to sync with business processes give it an edge. Liferay’s Functional Features give a spark to enterprise portal development.
7. Staging Page Publications:
Liferay’s staging environment allows you to make changes to your site in a specialized staging area. When you’re done, you can publish all your site changes at once.
8. Flexible Enterprise Integration Framework:
Liferay allows users, administrators and developers to integrate content and services from backend or legacy applications. It supports multiple methods to integrate, including SOAP, REST, RSS, as well as proprietary API’s required for any Enterprise Content Management System.
9. Multi-lingual capacity:
International or multi-lingual organizations get out of the box support for 30+ languages including Francoise and Portuguese. Users can toggle between different language settings with just one click. It also provisions for adding new languages as per requirements.
10. Huge Liferay community:
The Liferay community has experienced significant growth; adding on an average 1300 member a month. It is now reaching a strength of 56,000 members. The community contributes greatly to the product functionality as well as product information/support.
11. Easy Migration:
Liferay DXP migration and upgrade helps enterprises gain competitive advantage with real-time information sharing and complete user control. It is easy to migrate files, blogs, images and data from legacy systems or integrate with other enterprise platforms like SAP, SharePoint etc.
Being mobile-ready means you’ll reach customers in more places than ever.
Over half of US web traffic and one-third of web traffic globally is coming from mobile devices. Is your website ready to take advantage of the new opportunities afforded by mobile? Use Liferay mobile SDK to make your application logic available to mobile app customers, or use Liferay responsive design support as the foundation for web-based mobile approaches.
