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.
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.
WOBURN, MA – January 17, 2012 –Axceler®,the leader in Microsoft SharePoint governance, administration and migrationsoftware, today announced that
I'm a huge fan of eGovernment and Government 2.0 initiatives. A few years ago we started seeing government sites adopting open data initiatives and adding features that allowed the public to provide more feedback to the government that served them. Changes such as these are good initiatives by governments as they continue their evolution into the digital age. Recently, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts redesigned their official website, Mass.gov, using the Percussion CM System.
Before I begin, let me confess that I don't know much about Percussion Software beyond what I read in their press releases. In fact, you'll find that some of the information here came straight out of one of their press releases and you'll want to continue your research beyond what you read here. However, personal experience has shown me that any redesign work done with government websites is hard work with my hurdles to cross. So after I took a look at the Mass.gov site, it didn't take much arm twisting from Percussion's marketing people to go beyond my comfort level and talk about a product I really should know a whole lot more about.
A few days ago, the Liferay product and engineering teams announced the release of Liferay Portal 6.1 CE. Last fall, during the Liferay West Coast Symposium, CMS Report was able to get a sneak peak of the features that Liferay Portal 6.1 had to offer. We were impressed then and we're even more impressed now with the changes that have been made since then.
Liferay Portal ships with broad product capabilities and provides more function than you would expect from a traditional portal. Besides having the capability as a web platform, Liferay Portal is also capable of supporting content and document management (including Microsoft office integration). Additional capabilities include:
Liferay issues their portal software under two licenses, an open source community edition and an enterprise edition. The Liferay community edition we're talking about in this article is specifically designated as Liferay 6.1 CE GA1. In addition to the numerous bugs that have been fixed since 6.0 GA4, many new features and improvements have gone into this release.
Companies using IBM DB2 database to benefit from enhanced efficiency provided by modern enterprise portal
London, 23 November 2011 – United Planet (www.unitedplanet.com), one of the leading developers of enterprise portal software in Europe, is pleased to announce that IBM has awarded the Intrexx intranet and portal software with “Ready for IBM DB2 database software” certification.
A couple weeks ago, Liferay's marketing and communication folks sent me an email mentioning that Liferay was included as a "Leader" in Gartner's 2011 Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals. After my usual procrastination I finally got around to reading the report and what follows in this blog post are some impressions that jumped at me while reading the report. I'm not convinced the randomness of these personal thoughts make up a blog post (at least a well-written blog post) but I'm going for it since my public note taking often turns out better than a well polished article.
The report offers some fascinating insights regarding the state of portals. I want to respect Gartner's terms and copyrights so no graphics or direct link to the actual report will be available from this post. If you want to read the report, Liferay is providing access to the reprint of this report via a link provided on their Award and Recognition page (click on the "Read Magic Quadrant" link). The Magic Quadrant is Gartner's graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. The graphic depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace. In this case, Garner is measuring the portals strength in "completeness of vision" as well as "ability to execute".
Pentaho BI helps 3A Latte Arborea CO-OP to be less vulnerable to milk price volatility.
Sardinia’s main dairy company uses jAPS Entando and Pentaho to help farmers master their businesses.
20 July 2011 – Pentaho Corporation, the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence, today announced that the Sardinian co-operative 3A Latte Arborea is now live with Pentaho Business Intelligence (BI) combined with the open source portal jAPS Entando, which are helping its farmers be more competitive and less vulnerable to the global milk price volatility that affects farmers worldwide.
The 3A Latte Arborea collects 90 percent of all Sardinian cow milk from its 286 farmers, who produce more than 200 million liters of milk annually. Globalization over the decades has resulted in today’s farmers being strongly affected by milk price volatility. This is not likely to change, but with access to BI applications, dairies have the chance to manage operational processes and costs better. 3A Latte Arborea initiated a project together with APA (Association for cattle breeding and genetic improvement) and the University of Sassari to develop one of Italy’s first Business Intelligence systems for a dairy chain to effectively support the farmers in mastering their businesses. The co-operative turned to its web agency J-Service to support them in finding an affordable BI solution that was easy enough to use by farmers with very little business, IT and even computer experience.
Social Business Strategy and Channel Expansion Expected To Drive Continued Growth in 2011
LOS ANGELES — Liferay, Inc., provider of the market’s fastest growing open source portal and web content management product, recently announced strong community, fiscal and market share growth for 2010 as well as upcoming strategies for expanding the community and eco-system in 2011.
Liferay enjoyed a solid year of business growth in 2010 that included a triple-digit increase in revenues, accompanied by an increase of staff to over 200 with new offices in Hungary and Brazil. The company also saw the number of its services partner network expand to 85 around the world.
In addition to the community and enterprise releases of Liferay Portal 6.0, the company added new technologies to its portfolio, including:
“We’re extremely happy with our 2010 results from product, revenue and operations perspectives,” said Bryan Cheung, Liferay’s Chief Executive Officer. “Thanks to these successes, we are very well positioned in 2011 for expansive growth of the community, customers, and overall market share.”
Beyond advancements in business and technology, the company also took steps to improve community relations and grow its business eco-system. To rally support for the company and product, Liferay hired James Falkner from the Sun Portal team as the new community manager. By providing the community with resources and a process for the incubation and approval of ancillary projects on Liferay.org, Liferay hopes to foster development of new web development technologies that will connect as modules into the Liferay core services.
A major initiative in 2011 is the Liferay Marketplace, an online space for buying and selling modules and solutions that leverages Liferay as a strategic web platform for web sites, applications, and solutions specific to several key industries. Liferay will also target companies looking to implement social networking within the enterprise. Those seeking to implement social applications, Social Product Marketing (defined by Liferay), or enterprise social collaboration leveraging OpenSocial components will be able to use Liferay’s core capabilities for an enterprise wide platform.
Amsterdam - 2 February, 2011 - Finalist, an open source IT service provider specializing in content management & portal software, integrated Hippo CMS with Liferay. This allows businesses to benefit from the best of both worlds: easy content editing with Hippo CMS and personalization & collaboration features of Liferay.
We see a wave of companies looking for a more flexible solution to be able to re-use their content across multiple delivery channels. Driving this development are the needs to deliver (personalized) content anywhere in the context of the audience.” said Hippo's co-founder and CCO, Tjeerd Brenninkmeijer. “The integrations with Liferay provides a good collaboration and portal solutions with a lot of out of the box functionality. This is a solution which works with all JSR-286 based portals (Jetspeed, Liferay, Jboss Portal, etc.). This generic portlet integration solution comes out of the box with Hippo CMS. We look forward to work even closer with Finalist to bring their expertise to the Hippo customer eco-system.”
Finalist officially partnered with Hippo, the leading developer of open source Enterprise CMS software, in 2009. Finalist donated the integration with Liferay to the Hippo open source community.
More companies are turning to Finalist because they are under extreme pressure by extensive cost and time constraints associated with getting a flexible online presence.” said Okke van 't Verlaat, CTO of Finalist. “With the integration of Hippo CMS with and the popular Liferay portal companies & government entities can manage their content in one place & deliver this content to their intranet, internet & mobile channels. This solution not only solves the problem of internal linking from content within Liferay pages, but results in a medium neutral content storage with unmatched potential to personalization & delivery. The solution will be donated to the open source community.”
All of us already aware that with the advent of Touch SmartPhone, there is a greater demand in the market for utilities and applications developed for the mobile platform. Now these needs can be addressed in two ways:
Native Applications specific to Mobile platforms like iPhone, Android, Windows, Symbian, and Blackberry
Enabling Web Sites / Web Applications to be delivered on Mobile, This is called as Web2Mobile
Native Applications require development of application using software development kits (SDK) specific to platforms like iPhone, Android etc, or even use Mobile Cross-Platform App development platforms like RhoMobile, PhoneGap etc. The challenging aspect here of course is in testing and deploying applications on various versions of the platforms like Android, iOS, Blackberry etc.
Yesterday, I received a press release from one of Liferay's marketing people. Instead of just publishing the press release, I thought I'd also include the part of the email that also introduces the product. This is a good way for you to get an insider's look to how marketing relationships between a site such as CMS Report and the CMS companies are established. Kyle's introduction to the product actually peaked my interest into Liferay more than the press release and may help you consider Liferay as part of your enterprise solution.
Hi Bryan,
Liferay (makers of the Java open source portal that was recently voted a leader in Gartner's magic quadrant), has developed its own support issue tracker that is included in the Liferay Portal 6 Enterprise Editions. Liferay used to use JIRA, but needed to make some tweaks to simplify the support process - so they built this using their own Liferay Portal 6 Enterprise Edition.
Liferay is used by hundreds of thousands of developers; as Gartner reported in the report above, a "surprising amount" of enterprises ask Gartner about Liferay's portal.
Press release is below.
Thanks,
Kyle
Los Angeles, CA - November 30, 2010: Liferay, Inc., provider of the market’s fastest growing enterprise portal product, recently announced the availability of the Liferay Enterprise Support Application (LESA), a new multifaceted support issue tracker, designed to simplify and streamline the enterprise support experience for its customers. The web application, available through the Liferay Customer Portal, provides Liferay Enterprise Edition customers a clean and simple interface to improve interactions with the Liferay support team.
LESA features a simplified user interface that greatly improves the support experience for both developers and non-technical administrators. Customers will benefit from having one application that aggregates, organizes, and monitors disparate data and services in the support process. Customers can now search tickets by username, issue severity, due date, and other attributes. This will simplify how customers track open tickets and allows them an efficient escalation process. LESA’s ability to issue multiple assignees also improves productivity by permitting more people to work on a ticket at a given time.
“Customers who have tested LESA have been very pleased with the capabilities and have reported quicker and more accurate resolutions,” said Craig Kaneko, Liferay’s Director of Support and Subscription Services. “Customers report that usability and accessibility are much higher with LESA than what is available from other support systems, including those of the world’s largest software providers.”
Built entirely on Liferay Portal 6EE, LESA, is now available to all Enterprise Edition customers. For more information, please visit www.liferay.com. A free 30-day trial of Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition is available upon request by contacting sales@liferay.com.
HAMBURG, Germany and SAN FRANCISCO, June 29 -- CoreMedia, a premier Web Content Management company, today announced CoreMedia CMS for SAP NetWeaver Portal. The solution is designed for organizations looking to better leverage their SAP NetWeaver Portal investments by empowering business users to more efficiently create and update portal content while reducing dependencies on IT.
Sitecore Intranet Portal 3.1 Includes Ready-to-Run Features and Fully Customizable Page Layouts
San Francisco, April 28, 2010– Sitecore, the leading provider of .NET Web Content Management System (CMS) software, today announced the new release of its Sitecore Intranet Portal solution. Built on Sitecore’s Web CMS platform, Intranet Portal 3.1 helps organizations build an intranet that serves as the communications hub for the entire organization.
Corporate intranets can help build employee loyalty and break down traditional organizational barriers. In addition, Sitecore Intranet Portal makes it easier and more efficient to manage and monitor compliance and standards processes with structured publishing and workflow that can adjust to any business logic, with security available at every level.
With a Wizard-driven starter kit, Sitecore Intranet Portal features a highly intuitive editing interface, which dramatically reduces the need to train content managers, including full integration with Microsoft Office® applications. Moreover, managers can easily customize their department’s intranet desktop to fit specific business needs.
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