eCommerce solution frameworks like Volusion, Bigcommerce, Magento, Shopify and custom sites built with Bespoke are a good way to begin the process of planning for eCommerce. But, no matter which framework or solution you choose, you will need to carefully plan the online store or shopping cart, using comprehensive information about your customers and prospects and their needs and demands.

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Article By: Hitesh Matlani

The client operates a business-to-business community that’s focused on wireless market research and product intelligence in Germany. Members of the community routinely identify and share sources of market and product research with their peers as well as search events of significance for their daily work.

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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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Article By: Chintan Parikh

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.