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.

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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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Now and then, CMS frameworks like Liferay, WordPress are integrating features, functionalities and plugins to make portal user-friendly, interactive and intuitive. CMS framework, Liferay has a collaboration suite of applications - Liferay portlets which can help build community, and also satisfy multiple other requirements of the users on a common platform.

With the help of collaboration suite, a user can think of integrating different applications at ease. Apart from integrating blogs, calendars and mail features, it’s possible to accommodate few more. For instance, message boards, wikis, polls and chat are provided as per the requirements of business. 

Liferay has provided for a plethora of these social collaboration tools so that the user doesn't have to depend on other frameworks to get these integrated on the web or portal. For instance, if you wish to have a calendar integrated on the portal, you can receive a number of benefits with integration. Scheduling the events, alarm alerts via email or text message and more such features are helpful in understanding how your calendar feature will actually work on a Liferay based portal.

To sum up, Liferay portlets simplified most of the work on the single platform with the use of collaboration suite of personal and non-personal applications. 

Are you interested in getting your website or portal developed using Liferay Portlets?