Understanding Why Liferay has succeeded as a Portal Platform

Liferay framework has fast emerged as a desirable and practical solution for design and development of portals. It offers over 60 development tools for website creation, content management system and intranet portals. With these tools, the developers can effectively deal with complex requirements of a portal; customizing the features and providing the advanced capabilities accordingly.

With skilled Liferay developers present to leverage multiple tiers on user interface to create an environment where users perform web publishing, content management, collaboration and social media tasks, these tools can simplify the work and also, ensure user adoption without disturbing the enterprise requirements of the organization.  Liferay CMS with toolkit can, thus, satisfy technical and usability requirements on the portal.

Mentioned below are some of the popular features which have made Liferay a successful portal platform:-

• Liferay portal allows multi-lingual support for over 30 languages.
• OpenSocial support allows management and deployment of web based social applications built from gadgets to pages and sites.
• The framework provides a secured SSO or Secure Single Sign On to allow aggregation and access of content and applications in single place.
• Advanced capability (Rules Engine) integration allows for “contextual personalization.”
• Also, users can customize different pages for adding, removing or editing content using portlet   attributes.
• Liferay portal was the first to offer drag and drop feature that allows users to move different   elements on the portal. Presence of open SOA strategy ensures application integration with legacy and enterprise systems.
• Liferay’s workflow APIs could provide an enhanced user experience by allowing incorporation of   workflow into one or more custom portlets.

Often considered the best option for designing and developing intranet applications, online communities and enterprise portals, Liferay is highly interoperable across different platforms and allows scalability across a large user base. Having a flexible, intuitive and user-friendly interface with plethora of development tools, it has succeeded as a Portal platform.

Liferay portal development experts at Elegant MicroWeb have required expertise and experience in providing Liferay integration, Liferay portal customization and Liferay theme development services at competitive rates.

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