Polkadot JAM Slides - Token2049 - By Dr. Gavin Wood
Benefits of using liferay
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2. Most common use cases according to Gartner
• All types of portals & websites
• Knowledge Management and Collaboration
Portals
• Business Performance (Dashboards, etc.)
• Process Improvement
• Customer Engagement (Marketing / Sales)
• Customer Service
• Supply-Side Management
…and any web site or web application
3. B2C Social Applications
RBCD EAI
Web Services,
RSS, REST, HTTP, Mas
API Calls, Accountin Other
ERP
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DM CRM HR
Apps
SalesForce Websites hups/Widgets
Portlets
4. • Support rich interaction and user experiences expected of today’s
savvy internet users – web 2.0, AJAX, SOA, REST among others
• Built-in social computing features &mashups
• Out-of-the-box features to fast track deployment of new services
• Support for fine grained permissions for highest flexibility and
security
• Open standards based - JSR 168,286, 170, 127, JSF
314, OpenSearch, WebDAV, LDAP, Open ID, JAAS among others
• Seamless integration with leading Identity Management Systems -
LDAP Authentication and Synchronization, Oracle Access Manager, CA
SiteMinder, Novell Identity Manager, Sun Identify Manager/Open SSO, Tivoli
• Support multiple RIA client frameworks –
jquery, YUI, AUI, GWT, Vaadin, ext-js, dojo among others
• Seamless integration with social networks and gadgets
• Ability to integrate with other content management systems
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8. Business Community
In its 11th year of development, Liferay Portal has become the defactostandard for open source
portals in the enterprise. The company offers enterprise subscription and support, public and
private training, and consulting and implementation services with offices in the United
States, Brazil, China, Germany, Hungary, India, Malaysia, and Spain. Liferay, Inc. also boasts a
thriving business network of certified partners and resellers in six continents.
Developer Community
Participants in the community include the Liferay staff and board of governance, volunteer
committers and contributors, and other partners and users. The board of governance establishes
and enforces community rules while coordinating and implementing decisions that affect the
entire community. Committers are allowed to directly contribute code into Liferay Portal source
code while contributors’ code passes through a review and approval process before it is added
to the product. Partners are able to work with Liferay community for the development of ancillary
products available to Liferay customers such as services, integrations and plugins.
• Over 24,000 community members
• 11,400 active forum participants
• Largest single portal knowledge base with over 120,000 forum posts
• An estimated 250,000 implementations around the world
All these sites combine the power of Content Management + Social Collaboration + Integration capabilities of a Java Enterprise Portal.
RBCD - Role-Based Content Delivery.Portals additionally simplify the development of websites that display different data depending on a user's role. For instance, a bank website may feature anonymous and authenticated (logged-in) pages but can additionally have different pages available for various customer types. A standard account can have basic services and pages, while business customers can have additional pages defined.
All these sites combine the power of Content Management + Social Collaboration + Integration capabilities of a Java Enterprise Portal.
