mimacom & liferay roadshow : introduction to liferay platform

Introducing Liferay

Joseph Shum Director of Operations Europe, Liferay GmbH

joseph.shum@liferay.com

Vienna Roadshow – June 6, 2012

What is Liferay?

What is Liferay?

•  Open Source. •  A Portal Platform. •  For the Enterprise.

Liferay is Open Source – Since 2001

Used World Wide as a Portal Solution

Liferay is Open Source

Liferay is Open Source – Active Community

Liferay is Open Source – Growing Community

Liferay is Open Source – Community Development

Liferay Community Projects

New Features Developed by the Community

· Communities (Sites) · Virtual Hosts · Security – SAML v2 · EXT Plugin · Translations · Control Panel · Improved SEO · Flagging Content · Advancements to Portlets (Wiki, Calendar) · LAR import / export

Portal Platform Architecture

•  Phased Development / Deployment •  Leverage 60+ Out of the Box Portlet Applications including Content Management, Document Management, Collaboration and Social Networking. •  Use Existing Frameworks for Authorization, Authentication, Preferences, Workflow, Search, Look and Feel …

Portal Platform Architecture

Enterprise Leader

“Liferay's open-source success is due to its sharp focus, functional excellence, and ease of development and deployment, as much as cost.”

Global Presence

Liferay – Our Company

•  Global commercial Open Source company since 2004 •  300+ Employees worldwide

What is Enterprise Edition (EE)?

Customer Network Customer Portal Access to EE Marketplace Participation in Roadmap

Community Edition

Tools

Enterprise Edition

Liferay Developer Studio

Services Maintenance

Support Professional Services

Training

Certified Codebase Testing

Quality Assurance Scalability / Performance

Security

Scalability

Quality Assurance

Security

Community Edition

Testing

Performance

Why Enterprise Edition?

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Customer: Public Administration

Banks

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•  Hard to Maintain •  Risk Quality •  Risk Performance •  Risk Scalability •  Risk Compatibility (Upgrades)

Costs for Liferay, Costs for the customer.

CE 3.x 4.x

Cost of Supporting Community Edition

Customer Project Source Code

Public Administration

CE 3.x 4.x 5.x 6.x

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•  Maintaining your own branch of Liferay source code.

•  Project source code becomes more and more complex as time goes on.

•  Lose performance and stability. •  Lose guaranteed compatibility with future

versions of Liferay. •  Costs increase over time.

Supporting Enterprise Edition

CE

Lower Cost with Enterprise Edition

EE SP1 Fix Pack Fix Pack

5.2 CE

6.0 CE

6.1 CE

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Bug Fix

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Guaranteed Ongoing Maintenance with End of Life Service Policy

Lower Cost with Enterprise Edition

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Guaranteed Ongoing Maintenance with End of Life Service Policy •  Simple to Maintain •  Higher Quality •  Better Performance •  Reliable Scalability •  Guaranteed Compatibility

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Lower overall costs for the customer.

Certified Codebase

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Development Tools

Customer Network

Director of Operations, Europe Joseph Shum

Thank you!