As we all know, Enterprise 2.0 is no longer a hype but a necessity in a new era where more organizations are starting to have a global presence. It has become crucial for global enterprises to provide their employees with an effective means of collaboration, communication and socialization to not just increase productivity, but also strengthen employee loyalty. This presentation will discuss how Liferay Portal facilitates the architecture of global intranets that meets common challenges, along with practical examples of how it can be used to achieve the results expected from an Enterprise 2.0 intranet.

1. Building and Deploying a Global Intranet
with Liferay
June 23th 2011
Rivet Logic Corporation Presented By
1800 Alexander Bell Drive Shagul Khaja
Suite 400 Software Architect
Reston, VA 20191 Rivet Logic Corporation
Ph: 703.955.3480 Fax: 703.234.7711
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2. Rivet Logic Overview
• Award-winning professional services firm focused on enabling:
• Collaboration and Community Platforms
• Enterprise Content Management
• Web Content Management and Portals
• Using Leading Open Source Software
• Company Facts
• Headquartered in Reston, VA
• Regional Offices in Boston, New York City, Los Angeles
• Near-shore Development Center in Costa Rica
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3. Rivet Logic and Liferay
• Platinum Partner
• Conduct Public Training on East Coast USA
• Contributor (various means)
• Host of first ever East Coast User Conference in
2009
• 25+ Liferay implementations
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4. Enterprise 2.0
• Is it still a hype?
Your employees are here.
• Needs a balance Yes. In social networks.
• Micro-blogging
• Great for quick updates
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5. Intranet vs. Public Site
How does your Come. Take a look at it.
intranet compare to
the public site?
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6. ROI vs. Value
ROI on
Coffee?
Yes. There is a
balance.
• Reduced help desk calls
• Easy to Collaborate
• Easy content management
• Increased employee loyalty
• Executives can
communicate easily with
employees
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7. Challenges: Global Intranet
• Language difference
• Language variations
• Same words have
different meanings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Square
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8. Cultural Differences
Nice to meet Good afternoon!
you!
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9. Liferay to the Rescue
• Themes and color scheme
• Blue, pink, yellow and green do not have the
same meanings.
• Identify the color that goes well with your region
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10. Liferay to the Rescue
• Allows authoring content
Who does the
in multiple languages translation?
• Everything is localizable
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11. Information Architecture
• Surfable vs Searchable
• Channel the information
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12. Liferay to Search and Rescue
• Solr power for search
• Provides search framework
• Hook in various enterprise search engines
• Override Indexer if needed
• Provide Indexer for custom assets
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13. Channel Information
• Organize global contents using categories and tags
• Categorize based on region, country etc.
• Aggregate Contents using
• Asset Publisher You don’t see the
• Custom WCM applications document if you don’t
• Permission based sharing have permission. No
more errors like this.
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14. Is this the same document?
Is this the same
moon?
• Single source of truth
• You know where to look
• Single document, content, etc.
• Supports versioning
• Email is not a document repository
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15. Sharing vs Separation
• Challenge
• Ability to manage content
• Ability to share
• Ability to secure
• Global compliance
• Liferay to the rescue again
• Single tool to share and secure
• Security through Communities
• Communities are isolated
• Use teams within communities
• Openness through Global scope
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16. How do I Find People?
• HR and Legal security and
privacy constraints
• The directory needs to be global
• Find people easily
• Custom Fields to the rescue
• Map attributes from other systems
• Can be selectively indexed
• Apply field level permissions
• Roadmap for more features
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17. Governance
• Challenge
• Legal ramifications
• Provide control
without sacrificing
collaboration
• Moderation through workflow
• Regional vs Global content management
• Liferay roles and permissions
• May affect user adoption
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18. Intranet Adoption
• Information Architecture is key
• Navigation
• User training
• Consider user base
expertise
• Reward people
• Advanced mobile
support coming soon
• Analytics to monitor user behavior
• Provide/enhance the tools that people need
• Beware of too much policing
“I still don’t Twitter, or tweet, or whatever it’s called. I keep thinking that I’ll get around to it, but
this old dog just never finds energy to learn a new trick” , Andy Moore, Editorial Director of
KMWorld – June 2011
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19. Liferay is an
Enterprise Grade Platform
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20. Liferay is Flexible
Wow! I can do a
lot with bricks.
• It’s all frameworks
• Asset framework
• Auditing framework
• SSO framework
• Search framework
• Workflow framework
• Permission framework
• Everything built with support for integration
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21. Liferay Fits In
Can I rely on this stack?
• Built on best of breed open source technologies
• Supports all major enterprise application servers
• Database agnostic
• Enterprise grade support
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22. Liferay is Scalable
• Global companies It looks like our other
• Large user base integration systems can’t
scale.
• Can grow rapidly
through acquisition
• HA/Fault Tolerance
• Backup/DR
• Validate scalability of
external integration
points
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23. Q&A
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24. Thank You!
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