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Sensus Uses Liferay to Strengthen Their Global Web Presence

October 25th 2011

Rivet Logic Corporation 1800 Alexander Bell Drive Suite 400 Reston, VA 20191 Ph: 703.955.3480 Fax: 703.234.7711

Presented By Alaaeldin El-Nattar Principal Architect Rivet Logic Corporation

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•  Award-winning professional services focused on enabling: •  Collaboration and Community Platforms •  Enterprise Content Management •  Web Content Management and Portals

•  Using Leading Open Source Software

•  Company Facts •  Headquartered in Reston, VA •  Regional Offices in Boston, New York City, Los Angeles •  Near-shore Development Center in Costa Rica

Rivet Logic Overview

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Rivet Logic and Liferay

•  Certified Partner since 2006 •  Platinum Partner •  Conduct Public Training on East Coast USA •  Contributor (various means) •  Host of first ever East Coast User Conference in 2009 •  25+ Liferay implementations

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The Sensus Challenge

•  Disparate messaging around products and solutions

•  Each region has their own CMS

•  US/Canada have a custom built CMS

•  Maintainability issues

•  Flexibility issues

•  Integration with external systems is tough

•  Content localization is not possible

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Sensus.com 1.0

•  US/Canada website

•  Inflexible look and feel

•  Inflexible product and solution structure

•  Did the job but couldn’t grow to meet the global needs

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Sensus.com 1.0 Global Sites

•  Look and feel inconsistency

•  Lack of control over messaging around products and solutions

•  Inability to manage regional content separately

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THE REQUIREMENTS

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The Information Architecture

Country Country

Division Division

Product Line

Product Line

Product Product Product

Sensus.com

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Relationships & Associations

Division

Product Line

Country

Product

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THE SOLUTION

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Liferay Communities (Sites)

US/Canada

China

Germany

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Dynamic Web Content

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Localization

•  Liferay natively supports localization

•  All portal content will be localizable

•  One tool for all regional authors

•  Same content can be authored in multiple languages

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THE CHALLENGES

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Liferay Challenges

•  Sensus needed the following:

•  Human readable URLs

•  One page per solution

•  One page per division

•  One page per product line

•  One page per product

•  Product line and product navigation

•  Geolocation

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Liferay Challenges

Division

Product Line

Country

Product

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Liferay Challenges

•  Liferay’s default URLs are not good enough

•  Liferay allows for creating custom friendly URLs

http://sensus.com/web/usca/solution?id=advanced-metering-infrastructure-ami

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THE CUSTOMIZATIONS

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Divisions Page

Division Summary

Division Tab

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Division Page

Division Overview

Product Lines

Product Line

Navigation

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Product Line Page

Product Line Overview

Associated Solutions

Products

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Product Page

Product Overview

Product Documentation

Associated Solutions

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Solutions Page

Solution Summary

Expands Dynamically

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Solution Page

Solution Overview

Associated Assets

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THE MAGIC

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The Basic Concept

•  Completely decouple authoring from presentation

•  A simple authoring process:

•  Authors create content using Web forms

•  Authors categorize content

•  Content is auto-published to the right spot

•  Look and feel is automatically taken care of

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How it works (Authoring)

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Web Form Authoring

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How it works (Categorization)

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P U B L I S H

AMI Systems P U B L I S H

US

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Water

Country

Product Line

Division

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THE DEMO

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Comparison

•  Before •  Non scalable, proprietary CMS that did

not allow control of design, layout, and most content.

•  Did not have flexibility to adapt to continued growth.

•  Did not support regionalization, internationalization, and 3rd party integration (Sharepoint, etc..)

•  Poor readiness for Marketing (SEO, SEM, micro sites, Salesforce integration)

•  Overall a reduced ability to extend our current web offering

•  After •  Enterprise level solution + community

and enterprise support •  Dynamic CMS that meets the needs of

current business and provides flexibility to adapt to future.

•  Have infrastructure to support regionalized product offerings and internationalized languages

•  Support for 3rd party integration, document management, SSO

•  Marketing / content creation ready: SEO, quickly deploy micro sites/landing pages, WYSIWYG editing, drag and drop layouts

•  Already looking at ways to expand into other parts of our business (training, document management) due to the flexibility that Liferay offers

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THE FUTURE

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What the future holds

•  Sharepoint integration

•  Adding global sites to sensus.com

•  French

•  German

•  Content translations on International Site

•  English

•  French

•  Spanish

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Standards & Openness

•  Liferay is: •  Standards compliant •  Easy to maintain •  Open source •  Highly customizable •  Has a healthy community

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Q & A

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