Let’s talk about my friend, Arun. He chose a team of Liferay experts to help him with his project. This team has worked with the Liferay Portal framework and themes for several years and with the complementary Java technology frameworks and libraries for more than fifteen years. They worked with Arun’s team of product managers to design and build an association management portal, including a Central Administration module to manage associations, access rights, site policies, and tools, and personalized association pages for each association. Association managers manage events, users and activities, publish news and content and interact with users, and the site is integrated with a FaceBook API.

If you want to move at the speed of light, get a team of professionals: Liferay Portal Design

Liferay Portal is not a deep space transmutation Device! It is a framework to create websites, Content Management Systems (CMS) and intranet applications. The Liferay Portal can simplify the work and user experience, and is easily customized to cater to specific preferences and needs.

Read more at Get CMS at the Speed of Light with Liferay Portal Experts

While initiating the process of any web application development, the developer is involved in preparing system architecture using various technologies. It takes lot of effort and time to design the flow from scratch. However, if any, web application requires customization than it becomes easy for developers to add new features.
Liferay has implemented similar concept by developing portal application holding dynamic, intuitive and time efficient features. It enables the development of powerful websites within a matter of time fulfilling basic needs of any application. Therefore, this Liferay portal is used to customize any web application to make it extendible.  

There are pre-installed portlets in a Liferay portal where portlet is a part of dynamic content. Each portal has several portlets which allows loading dynamic content in the web browser.  

Here we have penned down a few Liferay features that can help in choosing right CMS.

• Open source
• Ready to use
• SAAS mechanism
• In-built security system
• Robust CMS
• Easy deployment
• Compatible with all operating systems
• Support multiple server environments

Liferay has a global user base and most prominently used by famous giants like Barclays and Cisco Systems. Its active developer community vigorously contributes towards fine-tuning the product by Subscribing to the feedback from users.

The open source enterprise portal Liferay web application framework, written in Java and distribute freely is predominantly deployed for developing corporate intranets and extraneous nets. This web platform is richly decked with useful features that commonly are used for seamless site development.

Liferay portal development is capacitated by the embedded web content management system which facilitates building of web portals as synergic sequence of themes, webpages, gadgets, portlets etc. driven by a common navigation control. Liferay platform extends support for an extensive array of programming languages such as Ruby portlets and PHP. Liferay developer need not possess comprehensive programming skills to get started with fundamental site installation and subsequent administration.

Liferay development can be carried out on any computing device that offers support for Java Runtime Environment and any application server. Liferay comes pre-installed with useful servlet container.

Read more at Liferay Development: Easing The Process of Building High End Corporate and Amateur Sites

A CMS-driven dynamic website is developed for a leading Car Dealer based in Atlanta, USA. Liferay portlets development service is provided to the website which carries plenty of details about assortment of cars that visitors or potential buyers can go through and enquire about.

Elegant MicroWeb has leveraged the Java-based Liferay Portal development services to build a robust application. The scope of the project involved Liferay theme development, configuring website contents using Liferay CMS and developing JSF/Facelets based components.

Read more at http://www.elegantmicroweb.com/portfolio/cms-portal/car-dealer-website.htm

Elegant MicroWeb provided liferay portal development for a corporate portal for one of its clients based in Australia. The portal is a one stop platform for visitors and information seekers to familiarize with the enterprise.

The portal carries structured details on products, services and processes and redesigned with liferay themes. User can view news updates, comprehensive links to resources, perform enterprise search and banner management. Resources such as case studies and white papers can be downloaded as per categories.

Read more at http://www.elegantmicroweb.com/portfolio/cms-portal/corporate-portal-for-australian-client-using-liferay6-0-portal.htm

Liferay portal development services are provided by well-known Liferay developers, Elegant MicroWeb for a customer portal offering accounting, finance and technology related services to SME clients. It is a leading Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) company in the U.S.A and liferay themes are also provided for the portal.

The Java-based Liferay Portal Framework is a highly secure, authentication based portal through which role based permissions are assigned to users who can then easily access their assigned areas. Intended for internal users as well as customers, Elegant MicroWeb provided liferay portlets development services for the portal through a document management portlet with workflow management and notification capabilities.

Read more at http://www.elegantmicroweb.com/portfolio/cms-portal/customer-services-portal-using-liferay-portal-framework.htm

The client is UK based reputed business solutions and service providers. Their main aim is to help the buyer and seller to find each other and perform business operations effectively.

Elegant MicroWeb provided liferay portal development for designing liferay themes for business networking Portal for a client based in UK.

The client is a reputed business solutions and service provider, facilitating contact between the buyer and seller and thereby performing business operations effectively.

Read more at http://www.elegantmicroweb.com/portfolio/cms-portal/business-networking-portal-development-liferay.htm

Elegant MicroWeb provided Liferay Portal Development for a corporate portal for one of its clients based in Australia. The portal is a one stop platform for visitors and information seekers to familiarize with the enterprise.

The portal carries structured details on products, services and processes and redesigned with Liferay themes. User can view news updates, comprehensive links to resources, perform enterprise search and banner management. Resources such as case studies and white papers can be downloaded as per categories.

Read more at http://www.elegantmicroweb.com/portfolio/cms-Portal/corporate-Portal-for-australian-client-using-Liferay-v5-2-3-Portal.htm

Portal has comprehensive organization chart with searchable team member directory within various departments. Users can search and browse detailed profiles for all team members within the organization. Administrator and organization heads can create projects, allocate team members for the project ( resources ) from the organization directory, and create various public and private pages for the project. Project wise details, documents, wiki, forums are managed by team members associated with a project, and they can communicate with each other based on their access rights.

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The Liferay Portal Development services provided by Elegant MicroWeb can perform various opportunities that are created into sales by lead generation. The users can set various opportunities, as per the predefined organizational goals for the employees. With Liferay portlets development services, the list of various opportunities of the portal are displayed according to their start date, end date and status, enabling the employees to view according to their preferences. It also allows users to post remarks, upload various documents and attachments at the time of setting an opportunity.

Various opportunity reports are also generated by the Portlets, such as user list report, month-wise opportunity report, user sales report etc.

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An online eCommerce portal was designed for a reputed online media agency based in USA, using the Liferay Portal Framework. The client of Elegant MicroWeb manages a portal offering on-line shopping for products sourced from multiple vendors to customers across the nation. The client wanted to provide customers with a highly secure, easy-to-manage, on-line eCommerce solution with shopping cart, offering a wider range of products and services.


The client wanted an ecommerce solution where vendors could effortlessly create an online store for different categories of products they wished to offer. They needed a portal personalized for vendors that would make it easy for them to update product information or content such as Product Catalogues, Technical Specifications, Prices, FAQ’s, Product Reviews etc. They required an authentication based portal with a highly secure payment gateway.

Elegant MicroWeb analyzed the requirements and developed the portal utilizing the Liferay Portal Framework with well defined templates and easy-to-navigate layouts. Administration portlets like Category Management, Product Management, Configuration Management and Order Management were developed with certain administration rights assigned to vendors.

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Liferay Developers at Elegant MicroWeb have provided Liferay Themes and Liferay Portlets Development services for developing a Rural Association Management Application for a client in Uruguay.

The application facilitates the user to manage various rural associations and its activities. The rural associations are created as per the selected country and its province. It allows the application managers to create their personalised association homepage.

The application allows the users to publish various news and events, view various association activities conducted by the association. It also notifies all members through email on any association updates. The administrator user manages various rural associations, users, events, activities, and comments.

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There are numerous reasons for the growing popularity of the Liferay Portal, not the least of which is the fact that Liferay can simplify the work and user experience and secondly, it is easily customized to satisfy specific preferences, and user requirements and business needs. If your business is looking for a solution to serve CMS, document management, intranet, corporate site or partner portal needs, Liferay is worthy of consideration.

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Whether it’s an enterprise portal or intranet application or a simple website, Liferay offers over sixty different tools for design and development. A South American client based in Uruguay desired an application that could satisfy its requirement to manage rural association in the best possible way. As such, Liferay experts at Elegant MicroWeb provided services to design and develop this application keeping in view the client requirements.

Rural Association Management Application

Given below are main features of Rural Association Management Application:-

1. Create a personalized Home page

2. Publish and view news, events and activities

3. Manage associations

4. Manage and post comments

5. Email notifications on association updates

6. Generate different reports

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It seems your portal is fast sinking! And you are desperately hunting for a possible alternative whereby the age of your portal is elongated. And then, probably, you feel why not opt for a  framework like Liferay. With more than 60 development tools available for portal design and development, it could meet with complex requirements of any enterprise website.

Then, how is it possible to give life to a portal? Well, need to hire a team of best Liferay developers that have expertise and experience to understand the changing requirements and also, a thorough understanding of different capabilities which might be needed to incorporate onto the portal to enhance user experience. Liferay provides a user interface to allow users to perform different tasks like web publishing, content management, collaboration and social media integration. It is technology par excellence that can very well satisfy the technical and usability concerns on the portal. 

Imagine what you would get after opting for Liferay on your portal! Multi-language support for over 30 languages; an SSO for aggregation and content accessibility in a single place; advanced capability integration with Rules Engine; and of course, open SOA for application integration with legacy and enterprise systems. There are many more features provided to help any portal owner to incorporate (and thus, infuse life) into any existing website. Liferay portlets enhance the user experience when customized as per requirements. 

Large or medium sized enterprises are often hunting for web solutions which are reliable, simple to use and provide an enhanced user experience. Advanced features and capabilities are a must for such kind of portals. Liferay is one such framework that is precisely meeting the requirements of big enterprise owners.

There is a basic need to provide a seamless, agile and smooth experience to end-users on the portal. Liferay allows multi-tiered feature integrations that help business meet with requirements of every single user on the portal – end users, admin and other stakeholders. Presence of easy to use navigation, usability and controls and easy integration with enterprise data sources, web services and third party applications makes this platform stand out among the rest. With the potential to offer scalability to support a huge base of users and higher interoperability with other frameworks, this Java-based technology could ensure greater benefits. Support for web publishing, content management, social networking and personalization are some of the advantages of using Liferay. As it offers low TCO with the use of easy to integrate, Liferay tools that are able to meet the requirements of corporate intranet portals, community and other enterprise B2B and B2C portals, Liferay continues to occupy a position that is distinct from other CMS frameworks.  

Have an enterprise portal OR desire to set up a new one that meets the requirements of your enterprise! Hire Liferay portal development experts. It is imperative to carry out technical feasibility, feature mapping, plugin selection and customization; integration feasibility, performance tuning and other enterprise level tasks for any enterprise level portal design and development, and experts with right skills can perform such tasks diligently and effectively.  

Liferay has become a prominently used Java-based platform which is not only useful for creating enterprise portals but small websites too. One of our clients, Germany based entrepreneur is a renowned petroleum distributors and  required an enterprise portal to serve different purposes of end users. 

It was important to select Liferay theme that was just precise to meet with business needs. Being an enterprise website, it was important to integrate Liferay portlets. Our developers incorporated portlets for news, articles and banners. The other major task was to allow end users to gather details related to various petrol stations on the website. Thus, theme was selected in a way where portal could provide information on different gas stations. This included location on map, their working hours, the daily fuel pricing and general and other services available at each petrol station. Also, developers provided multi-lingual support to ensure users can interact in English as well as German. 

What was achieved after developing the portal?

1. CMS pages related to Home, Articles, News and Services were integrated
2. Banner/News Rotator was provided
3. Liferay theme was selected as per business requirements
4. Content search engine was provided on the portal
5. Map integration allowed locating petrol stations

How was it achieved?

1. Website layout or theme design and development carried out using Liferay plugin SDK
2. Content configuration with Liferay CMS portlets and other features
3. Velocity scripts selected for content structures and templates development
4. JQuery components integrated for better website interactivity
5. Liferay portlets integrated and customized according to requirements

This is just one example of enterprise portal developed and designed by our Liferay developers. If you are interested in knowing more on Liferay portal development, theme development, Liferay portlets development, get in touch with us now…. Do check out our Liferay portfolio for complete insight of websites and portals designed and developed at Elegant MicroWeb.  

There have been various technologies invading the internet platform. Liferay has proved to be one of the best frameworks in design and development of enterprise and non-enterprise applications. One of our clients in South America was looking for an application which could help manage different rural associations and their activities in their country. These associations were created according to respective province and country.

Our developers had a good time working with theme and Liferay portlets which were incorporated as per client requirement.

What was decided?

• Developers decided to have a Liferay platform for application development
• Liferay theme was selected to give an intuitive and appealing touch     
• Liferay portlets to integrate  news, calendar of associations’ activities
• Liferay modules customization to give personalized touch
• Liferay Integration with modules
• Ajax and JQuery framework
• MySQL framework for back-end
• Integration with Facebook API

What was acheived?

• Application managers can create their own personalized association homepage.
• Users can publish news and events, view associations’ activities.
• Application notifies members through email on association updates.
• Administrator user could manage various rural associations, users, events, activities and comments.
• Application allowed generation of various reports like association comments report, association    activities report, association followers report etc.
• Facebook API was also integrated for displaying Facebook comments.
• Application allowed generation of various reports like association comments report, association    activities report, association followers report etc.
• Facebook API was also integrated for displaying Facebook comments.

Why Liferay?
Liferay portlets tools contain a rich source of collaboration features for web publishing, social networking, content management and other practical tools that are designed and developed to fulfill technical and usability concerns. Liferay developers have enough expertise and experience in designing and developing a portal, website or application with Liferay development tools. They can leverage themes and offer support for work flow, products, market presence and sales channels.

Liferay portfolio includes Liferay customization, Liferay portal development, Liferay theme development and many more. Get in touch with Liferay developers for affordable, practical solutions for your enterprise or company to ensure better returns in future.

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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Online communities have become a rage with more people getting hooked to discussion forums and social media network. With “likeminded” people grouping together for knowledge-sharing, problem-solving and constant participation, demand for online communities and forums have headed north. Liferay portal development tools are one of the best and well-recognized for development of online community portals.

Understanding online community requirements

Online community portal is basically a communication portal with unique set of requirements; requirements based on the area of interest or shared interests. For website owner, the membership growth is on priority list. In other words, there is need to create a kind of connection between members and also invite non-members to join and be part of the larger database.

A solid, robust and all-out powerful portal is required to fulfill aforementioned requirements. Also, scalable and secured architecture becomes necessary to safeguard interests of members or participants. Sometimes, more advanced feature and functionality integrations might be required on existing portal to match the changing dynamics of cloud. Also, it’s bit of a challenge maintaining an online community portal.

If the project is new and yet to slip into design phase, expert and high-skilled services might be required to carry out feasibility studies and feature mapping exercises. Expert developers have complete knowledge on data integration design and customization, plugin integration, performance tuning and other enterprise tasks.

Why depend on Liferay framework?

Liferay is an open source platform that is viable for an enterprise application like online community portal.  It is robust, flexible and offers desired flexibility with easy to use and intuitive interface. With plenty of Liferay portlets and secured back-end to meet with requirements, experts could create an “out-of-the-box” community portal which could in turn help in growth of business with more human participation.

A well-organized and well-planned implementation on the internet platform is required and thus, it is imperative to include advanced capabilities which can give a bold and powerful front-end accompanied by reliable back-end. Liferay portlets like calendar, chat, mail, message boards are provided in Liferay’s collaboration suite.

Agile and smooth Liferay integrations can aid in reducing time and cost. In other words, Liferay based enterprise applications are cost-effective both in terms of development and maintenance. As this technology offers low total cost of ownership, is highly interoperable, offers scalability to support huge user base and could be easily customized as per business requirements, it is imperative to hire Liferay development expert that has experience and expertise to design, develop and maintain an enterprise portal like online community.  

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