Liferay Portal
Was ist Liferay?
Liferay ist ein java-basiertes Open-Source-Portal.
Link zur Website von Liferay
Was kostet Liferay?
Liferay ist ein Open-Source-Produkt. Es ist lizenzkostenfrei Connect to DB2
Wer benutzt Liferay?
Liferay Portal wird z.B. von Firmen vom Range der Sparkassen-Informatik, Hanse-Merkur und Cisco eingesetzt.
Firmenportale, die mit Liferay realisiert wurden
Was kann Liferay?
Features
Out-of-the-box Tools
Wählen Sie aus mehr als 60 mitgelieferten Portlets um ihr Portal anzupassen. Enthalten sind Liferay CMS und Liferay Collaboration, die Verwaltung und Veröffentlichung von Informationen im Web, Zusammenarbeit und "Social Networking" unterstützen.
SOA Framework
Liferay Portal ermöglicht die Einbindung von bestehenden Personal-, Buchhaltungs und Vertriebssystemen und anderer wichtiger Datenquellen.
Secure Single Sign On (SSO)
Aggregate and access your content and applications in one place. Liferay Portal can pull all of your different systems together and make them available by logging in just once via the secure SSO.
Granular, Role-Based Authorizations
To ensure that the right people control the right information, portal administrators can assign individual users or groups of users different "roles" that grant varying levels of access and editing rights to specific communities, files, applications and tools. For example, a "Sales Director" can view and edit all sales documents but a "Sales Assistant" can only view them.
Communities & Organizations
Liferay users can be intuitively grouped into a hierarchy of "organizations" or cross-organizational "communities," providing flexibility and ease of administration.
For example, members of different geographies such as Americas and EMEA can be grouped into organizations, whereas disciplines such as sales, marketing, and engineering that cross geographies can be created as communities. Each such group can also be given a separate mini portal with its own set of pages, content management system, shared calendar, and authorizations. A user can belong to multiple groups and easily navigate between them.
Single-Click Configuration
A fast, responsive interface makes Liferay Portal extremely easy and enjoyable to use for everyone in your organization. Typically time-consuming tasks such as altering a page layout, adding new applications and content, and changing look and feel can all be done in a couple of clicks without ever refreshing the page.
Dynamic Drag & Drop
Liferay Portal was the first portal to offer this feature, allowing users to move different elements around in the portal by simply dragging and dropping them into place.
Work From Your Desktop
Link to Liferay Portal from your desktop. Just drag your files into familiar "WebDAV" desktop folders and they are automatically uploaded to your portal.
Search & Tagging
Tag web content, documents, message board threads and more to dynamically share important or interesting content with other portal users.
Users can then search for relevant information within specific portlets, communities, within the entire portal and even within external integrated applications.
Personal User Pages
All users get a personal space that can be made public (published as a website with a unique friendly URL) or kept private. You can customize how the space looks, what tools and applications are included, what goes into the document library and who can see and access it all.
Multi-language Support
International or multi-lingual organizations get out of the box support for 22 languages. Users can toggle between different language settings with just one click. You can also easily add other languages.
CMS-Features
Out-of-the-box Tools
Liferay Portal provides more out of the box portlets than any other portal on the market—Choose from over 60 to customize your work environment. Included are Liferay CMS and Liferay Collaboration offering web publishing, content management, collaboration and social networking.
SOA Framework
Liferay Portal is developed using an open SOA strategy that makes it the choice of enterprises worldwide for enterprise application integration. Integrate your existing HR, Accounting or Sales systems and any other sources of important data.
Secure Single Sign On (SSO)
Aggregate and access your content and applications in one place. Liferay Portal can pull all of your different systems together and make them available by logging in just once via the secure SSO.
Granular, Role-Based Authorizations
To ensure that the right people control the right information, portal administrators can assign individual users or groups of users different "roles" that grant varying levels of access and editing rights to specific communities, files, applications and tools. For example, a "Sales Director" can view and edit all sales documents but a "Sales Assistant" can only view them.
Communities & Organizations
Liferay users can be intuitively grouped into a hierarchy of "organizations" or cross-organizational "communities," providing flexibility and ease of administration.
For example, members of different geographies such as Americas and EMEA can be grouped into organizations, whereas disciplines such as sales, marketing, and engineering that cross geographies can be created as communities. Each such group can also be given a separate mini portal with its own set of pages, content management system, shared calendar, and authorizations. A user can belong to multiple groups and easily navigate between them.
Single-Click Configuration
A fast, responsive interface makes Liferay Portal extremely easy and enjoyable to use for everyone in your organization. Typically time-consuming tasks such as altering a page layout, adding new applications and content, and changing look and feel can all be done in a couple of clicks without ever refreshing the page.
Dynamic Drag & Drop
Liferay Portal was the first portal to offer this feature, allowing users to move different elements around in the portal by simply dragging and dropping them into place.
Work From Your Desktop
Link to Liferay Portal from your desktop. Just drag your files into familiar "WebDAV" desktop folders and they are automatically uploaded to your portal.
Search & Tagging
Tag web content, documents, message board threads and more to dynamically share important or interesting content with other portal users.
Users can then search for relevant information within specific portlets, communities, within the entire portal and even within external integrated applications.
Personal User Pages
All users get a personal space that can be made public (published as a website with a unique friendly URL) or kept private. You can customize how the space looks, what tools and applications are included, what goes into the document library and who can see and access it all.
Multi-language Support
International or multi-lingual organizations get out of the box support for 22 languages. Users can toggle between different language settings with just one click. You can also easily add other languages.
Document Library & Image Gallery
Liferay CMS provides one central place to aggregate and manage all your content. Each community within Liferay Portal gets its own separate Document Library and Image Gallery.
Both are equipped with customizable folders and act as a web-based shared drive for all your team members, no matter where they are. Because content is accessible only by those authorized by the administrator, each individual file is as open or as secure as you need it to be.
Integration with Microsoft Office®
Liferay CMS features integration with Microsoft Office®, which means that when you update files and documents from your local drive, they can be automatically uploaded to your document repository online.
Liferay CMS makes use of publicly available SharePoint® protocols to allow users to open, save, version, lock, and share documents directly between Liferay and Microsoft Office®. This opens up new ways of integrating desktop workflow with web-based collaboration and document storage. For example, a marketing team working on a new product campaign can store Powerpoints, brochures, copy and graphics in a Liferay document library and brainstorm ideas using collaboration tools such as IM, Wiki, and Forums.
Multiple File Uploads
Instead of adding files one by one, users can upload multiple at a time to the document library, image gallery and any of the other tools that allow for document attachments.
In the Document Library, you can convert a file's format upon both upload and export (ie, a word document into a pdf).
Easy Integration
If there are applications with valuable content that needs to be accessed, rest assured that our open SOA development strategy makes Liferay Portal one of the best technologies to use for application integration.
Liferay Portal can speak to your HR system, Accounting software or any other system to pull relevant information as you need it.
Dynamic Tagging
Users can Tag web content, documents, message board threads and more to dynamically share important or interesting content with other portal users.
Multi-Tier Search
Users can search for relevant information throughout an entire portal, within a community, within specific portlets such as Wikis, Message Boards, among others, and even in external integrated applications.
Out of the box, there is the choice of using either Amazon's OpenSearch or SOLR. Other search engines can be integrated easily.
Asset Publisher
While Liferay Portal pulls together all your content, this tool allows you to publish any piece of content in your portal, either through a set of publishing rules or by manually selecting it.
For example, if you wanted to publish all content that has the tag "sales", you could set up an Asset Publisher portlet to do that. Any time a user posts anything with that tag, whether it be a document, an image, a blog entry, Wiki page, a message board posting or a Bookmark to Liferay's home page, that asset would get published in the Asset Publisher portlet.
Drag-and-Drop Site Maps
As a site gets larger, users appreciate the convenience of automatically generated site maps that are dynamic enough to let users rearrange site pages with a simple drag and drop.
Web Publishing
Beyond managing existing content, Liferay CMS lets users easily create and manage everything from a simple article of text and images to full functional web sites. Web publishing works alongside Liferay Portal’s larger collection of applications, which means that you can add in shopping cart functionality, visitor polls, web forms, community collaboration tools and more.
Everything is done with our collection of easy-to-use tools with familiar rich-text editors and intuitive interface.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Liferay CMS automatically updates sitemap information and makes new pages instantaneously searcheable by major search engines.
Easy Rich Text Editors
Content creation and publishing in Liferay CMS is simple and straight forward. A rich text editor with spell check and text styling enables anyone to create content without knowing how to code as if they were editing a Word document. Those who do know how to code can edit in the same editor from a source code mode.
Workspace Publishing
Organizations worldwide use Liferay Portal to publish full intranets, extranets, collaboration platforms and other workspaces to meet their functional needs.
Leveraging the system of communities and organizations, each department or team can have its own secured space equipped with a set of features and look and feel of its choosing. Each space has its own CMS and document library that can be supplemented by any of Liferay Portal's other collaboration or administrative tools and applications. They can even share documents and information between departments.
Live Page Editing and Scheduling
If you need to alter what you've created and published, you can do this live. Liferay CMS lets you edit and preview updates on a live site in real-time without affecting what the public sees until you're absolutely ready. You can do this with individual pages, entire communities, and full portals.
If you don't want to publish right away, you can tell Liferay Portal when to publish, what to publish and where to publish it to. It'll even let you revert back to older versions of your work.
Dynamic Virtual Hosting
After setting up a website, intranet or other Liferay creation, dynamic virtual hosting allows you to use this same installation of Liferay Portal to spin-off an infinite number of other portals, each with its own unique URL, look and feel and functionality.
For example, a music site can run infinite numbers of sub sites for various musicians. Each musician would get its own site (a mini portal) with a login for their fans, unique URL and theme.
All this is easily managed via the UI.
Multi-language Support
International or multi-lingual organizations get out of the box support for 22 languages. Users can toggle between different language settings with just one click. You can also easily add other languages.
Collaboration Features
Wikis
Build up and document important or interesting information as a community with Liferay's Wiki, which competes with standalone products in the robustness of feature set.
Each community gets its own Wiki with its own set of authorizations. Anyone with editing rights can quickly contribute information to these online topical encyclopedias.
Message Boards
Message Boards are a perfect solution for facilitating conversations around shared ideas within a department or project team, or for capturing and sharing the tacit knowledge of the workgroup.
Liferay offers views of message board activity statistics and recent posts and users can both subscribe to threads via RSS and reply to threads by email. Like all other portlets, Message Boards are secured by Liferay's granular system of authorizations which grants varying levels of control to different users.
Blogs
Liferay's Blogs provide the best features of modern blogging tools coupled with the benefits of the community-centric nature of Liferay Portal. They allow users to convey information and facilitate conversations around blogs directly in the context of a website, intranet, extranet, or social network.
Features include a user-friendly rich text editor, social bookmarking links, email notifications of blog replies, and an entry rating system. All blogs can be subscribed to via RSS and users can schedule entries to be published at specific times and dates.
RSS
Subscribe to frequently read RSS feeds from message boards and blogs within the portal.
Activity Tracking
Keep tabs on the most recent activity on Liferay Blogs, Message Boards, Wiki and other tools. This information is displayed in "Recent Activity" portlets and on a Facebook-like Activity Wall.
Instant Message
A friends list automatically displays the names of all other logged-in portal users. If you have something to say, just IM them. You also get familiar chat features like profile pictures and customized away messages. For your convenience, chat boxes stay at the bottom of your screen and follow you as you navigate through the portal while conversations remain secure behind your organization's firewall.
Email
If you need to send an email, do it directly through the portal. A full AJAX-based webmail client with a sleek, user-friendly interface can be configured to interface with many popular IMAP email servers.
Shared Calendar
Community-based calendars with task lists allow users to create, manage, and search for events. Events can be shared across communities, and event reminders can be set up to alert users of upcoming events by email, IM, or SMS. Microformats and Calendaring support allow you to transfer calendar and user information via Web 2.0 standards.
Announcements & Alerts
Broadcast messages to different group of users whether they are simple announcements or "newsletter"-like in purpose.
Each user can control how they receive alerts: via portal-based web alert, SMS, Email or any additional delivery mechanisms configured by the portal administrator.
Polls
Multiple choice polls can be created with this tool that also keeps track of votes. Many separate polls can be managed and a separate portlet can be configured to display a specific poll’s results.
