Often business stakeholders are confused about choosing the right Open source Portal and CMS. Not only that the confusion prevails on the actual understanding of a Portal and CMS. Liferay and Drupal are one of the most popular Portal and CMS platforms. This presentation helps business stakeholders choose the right Portal and CMS platform.

1. Liferay and Drupal Comparison
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@shubhamnagar
Director – InfoAxon Technologies
INDIA’s FIRST Open source Integration Company

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Portal vs CMS – Often a
Source of confusion

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What is a Portal? What is a CMS ?
Focuses on content and
application delivery
A content management
system and not a content
delivery system
Has administration of users
who author content
Manage and audit the
publication of content
Delivers personalized or
customized content to users
Manages access to content
and applications (SSO)
Contextualizes and frames
large content sets

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Liferay is a Open Source Horizontal Portal and CMS
Platform with rich enterprise stability and capabilities
Drupal is only an Open Source CMS
Platform NOT a Portal or anything else

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What is Drupal?
What is Liferay ?
• Drupal is an open source content management platform
• PHP Based
• GPL License
• Liferay Portal is an open source enterprise portal platform easily
integrated with available frameworks (also open source)
• Liferay Portal is integrated with Liferay CMS, a built-in content
management system and a wide collection of collaboration tools – all
available in one download
• Java based
• MIT License
Summary
• Drupal = CMS*
• Liferay = Portal + CMS + Collaboration Tools + Enterprise Support +
Social + Document Management + Workflow all in one pack
*Both Drupal and Liferay offer add-ons that provide functionality as additional downloadable
modules. In Drupal you need to know where and what to pick. No support from Drupal
directly

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For the fifth year,
independent leading
research firm Gartner
has named Liferay a
Leader in the Magic
Quadrant for
Horizontal Portals.
Drupal is considered
more a niche player

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The portal and CMS markets are converging/evolving
into the larger knowledge worker productivity
software market with digital engagement across
customers, partners and employees giving birth to
new business models
Top spending priorities are:
• Portals and portal frameworks
• Content and document management systems
• Navigation, search, and retrieval (NSR)
• Collaboration
• Digital Engagement
Liferay has always been evolving toward integrated
portal, CMS, NSR, Social, Multi Site and collaboration
functionality

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Only enterprise portals easily encompass all other
functional areas in the knowledge management, digital
engagement and content targeting market.
Advantages of Portal against CMS, NSR, Collaboration
• LDAP integration and enterprise taxonomy concepts
• Customizable and robust authentication pipeline
• Portal integration framework can envelop any CMS, blog,
Wiki
• Standalone Wiki or blog is a commodity; portal-enabled
wikis/blogs with community scoping adds greater value
• Portal offers standardized and generic integration through
Web services, REST, ESB, etc.
• Navigation, search, retrieval works across enterprise
applications and content sources

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Drupal Professional Support
• Support provided by third party consulting companies
• Highest SLA (unknown)
Liferay Professional Support
• Support provided directly by Liferay, Inc., creators of Liferay
Portal
• Highest SLA – 24/7 business critical phone support with one
hour response time provided directly from Liferay engineer

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Much more
development required
on Drupal for User
Stories than Liferay

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Liferay Gives Drupal Gives
A comprehensive group wide platform
with multi-site ability to host all kinds of
Group sites with no further investment
Only a Content Management framework;
Rest of Portal interfaces will need to be
developed from scratch
Significant work and knowledge required
in choosing multiple Add-ons and paid
or free support per component
Unstructured SLA and community
support unless it is from local vendors
(very few credible vendors in India)
Document Management reusable with
CIMR and other projects; Hundreds of
pre-packaged Add-ons; Alternative to
Magento and Storefronts
Deliver LDAP and Single Sign on across
enterprise ; User Management
configurations ; More configurations and
lesser development
Enterprise Business level SLAs and
Support vital for high business impact
brand initiatives and new ventures
Lot of plumbing of components is
required for achieving business use cases;
Absence of Workflow and repository for
which have to integrate Alfresco and
other BPM engines

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Liferay is a much evolved Product with support for a very
wide variety of platforms and operating systems all within
an enterprise support umbrella

16. You can create a lot with Liferay
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Horizontal Portal Platform to Develop “Exceptional Digital Experiences” and
Manage Content
Enterprise
Application
Integration
Platform
“Container”
for Web
platform
and diverse
experiences
such as BI
Dashboards
, Big Data
portals
Simple Web
Site with
CMS and
Collaboration
Employee
Intranet &
Extranet
Platform
Extended
Enterprise
Service
Platforms
Online
Community
Centric Social
Network Platform
Open Source
100’s of “Free
Application
Portlets” to
build Web
Experience
Extensive
Open
Standards
Support
Rich
Integration
and Web UI
Support
Rich Security
Features
Micro Sites
Marketplaces

17. Liferay is a platform that provides the
capabilities and tools to build compelling
audience engagement experiences and
manage content for the enterprise.
What is Liferay?

18. Product Ecosystem
Leading provider of commercial open source
portal and social collaboration software –
With One Subscription you get

19. How you can use the Liferay Platform
extensively to Accelerate Digital
Transformation
Liferay can be used for various purposes and the return of
investment for Liferay for customers is huge by using the same
Platform as Digital Engagement Tool, Content Management
System, Document Management , Intranet/Extranet,
Transactional System and a lot more possibilities………….
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Red and White
Chakranomics
Blendcraft Pan Vilas
Muskaan
We have already launched several digital
experiences till date using Liferay

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Time to Take Off accelerating
unused and underutilized
capabilities in Liferay

22. Understanding How to Accelerate
Digital Transformation
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23. Setup Digital Governance using Multi Site
Environment
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Create Organizational
Information Architecture
for Entire Group
including sub
organizations for a clear
Roadmap for present
and Future Digital
Experiences

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Global Context
(Apps, Templates,
Sites)
Productivity
Intranet
Knowledge
Management
Analytical Data
Presentation
Brand Initiative
Sites
Red and White
(Chakranomics)
Blend Craft
Pan Vilas
Others
CSR Sites
Muskaan
Bravery Awards
App Repository
Business Division
Corporate Sites
Corporate Corporate
IBD
Reuse Present
Architecture to
Host Group Wide
Digital Properties
with “Mobile First”
Approach
Extend
Extend

25. ECM & WCM
Data &
Systems
CRM
ERP
Portal
Web
Html
PDF
Excel
Mobile
Mobile Web
Native
Hybrid
Printer
FAX
Enable Multi-Channel Delivery of Content and Reused Apps

26. Use CMS Capabilities with Multilingual
ContentFor e.g. Nepal and other territories
WorkflowVersioning
Location &
Language Categories
and Tags
Related Assets

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Use 100’s of Free Liferay Marketplace Apps to extend functionality
across all Digital Experiences;
Make Group wide App repository using the same approach

28. Digital Content Management Features
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Digital
Content
Coming
Alive
Web Content
Publishing
Unified Documents and
Digital Media
User Defined Content
Categories
Asset Publisher
Rich Text Editors
Web Content
Structures & Templates

29. Digital Content Management Features
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Digital
Content
Coming
Alive
Intelligent Digital
Content Search
Integration with MS
Office
One Click Page
Creation
User Driven Workflow
and Approval
Live Content Editing
& Scheduling
Virtual Hosting &
Vanity URLs
Dynamic Content
Tagging

30. Create Staging to Live CMS Governance
Publishing Content in a
structured governance manner
Summary of
Changes
Publication
Status
Redesigned
Staging Bar

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Lets try not to design the user experience but the overall
“Digital Engagement Product” that creates the experience
Use Persona Based approach for Business to Consumer
Digital Experiences by targeting Content and Apps based on
User Persona

32. Available as plugin for
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Deliver Personalized User Experiences
Content Targeting and Personalization
User Segments
Suggested Content
Analytics

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Use easy to use Configuration rules to Target Content based
on User Personas identified as part of Product Development

34. Leverage Mobile SDK to Build Mobile apps very quickly
NativeApp
LiferayAPIs
Blogs,Docs,
etc.Custom
Services
iOSAPIs
Contacts,Camera,
Location,etc.
Liferay
Developer
Studio
Liferay
Mobile
SDK
Liferay Instance
Standard & Custom
Service Discovery
Allows developers to
use Services in native
apps
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Building Native Applications

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What capabilities
will Business
Acquire once
Digital
Transformation
is Accelerated

36. Capabilities Acquired by Business through
Accelerated Transformation
New Business Model Creation through opening New
channels of delivery and customer services
Significant Increase in Reusable Features
Quicker and Consistent Brand launches and messaging
changes
Real Time understanding of Personas and Customers
Structured Governance and Digital Roadmap
Content Management and Mobile First driven Digital
Standards
Marketplace of published Apps from Multiple vendors
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