4 Jan

What's New in Liferay 6.1


On January 6, 2012, Liferay, Inc release Liferay 6.1 CE GA1 (Community Edition). And followed, little over a month later on February 22, 2012, Liferay 6.1 is releasing the Enterprise Edition (EE).
 
Liferay Portal is open source enterprise portal and free where primarily used in intranets and extranets as power corporate. Liferay 6.1 has the latest version of Liferay’s portal product, they offering key usability enhancements that empower business and non-technical users to easily and effectively publish, organize, and access data and content, and quickly create applications to facilitate business processes online.
 
Based on press release by Liferay.com, over 100 new features combined with over 400 improvements whish available on Liferay 6.1 EE latest version. Some new features which available in Liferay 6.1 EE are:
 
Document Liferay Sync - Liferay Sync feature is to stored the document into Document Library automatically synchronization by online and offline services to your computer or another mobile devices.
 
Completely Changing on Document Library and renamed into Documents and Media Library. The new features of Documents and Media Library are Automatic previews (easily preview your documents, image or video first, before you need to download it), business defined document types (Automatically metadata was embedded into your file and also custom document adjustment), and Desktop-like experience (improvements in drag and drop, multiple select, and contextual menus).
 
Third-party Integration: you can get your document form any place by enterprise integration with Documentum, SharePoint, and other popular third-party CMIS repositories.
 
Start using Kaleo Forms and Workflow Designer. The code was become less and easily process on constant changes in business without IT intervention.
 
Customizable Sites. Page designer and its section will be able design by administrator.
 
Enhance your productivity by new workflow, forms designers, user data lists and advanced workflow.
 
Additionally, the latest feature on Liferay 6.1 EE, the administrator system was able to auditing and reporting in detail on portal usage.
 
Softbless Solution as partner of Liferay Partner (2011-2012) in Indonesia was provided Liferay 6.1 software as your enterprises portal. Just contact to softbless.com to get new Liferary 6.1 or you can download the trial version at liferay.com for 30 days free trial enterprises edition. 

20 Dec

Liferay as a Main Alternative for Your Enterprise Portal

Liferay can be the main alternative for company as an enterprise portal/intranet portal solutioin. Liferay Portal is easy to use and open source licensed. So companies that want high valued Enterprise Portal solutions can divert his choice to Liferay. Liferay Portal provides the facilities, both intranet and extranet.

Customization in Liferay is easier. It uses a drag & drop, so users only need a mouse to select the menu you want displayed. If companies need tools for collaboration and knowledge management, such as instant messaging, blogs and wikis, and access to all content, and information organization.

The interface displayed Liferay is very interesting and easy for users to use existing facilities, content management is also easy to use, users or developers do not need to have to master programming language in detail, and no special skills required during installation of the portal site. In this installation, the package has been integrated Liferay with other packages, such as Apache Tomcat web application server and Java Runtime Environment.

Liferay Portal provides a clear view of the general interface and the menu is made as simple as possible, so that all levels of users can use it.

Some special features that exist in Liferay are as follows:

Flexible Portal Integration Framework , Liferay Portal allows users, administrators and developers integrate content and services from backend applications and support several methods, including SOAP, REST, RSS and APIs.

Out-of-the-box tools , Liferay provides various tools for CMS and Collaboration functionality

Secure Single Sign On (SSO) , only with a one-time authentication, users can securely and comfortable access to all menus

Customization Tools , an administrator can make adjustments, make changes, add users or other attributes such as name, company, date, or other information considered important, all of which can be performed without any modification of the database. Liferay also provide support facilities to the page content sites, blogs, share documents and data storage folder, and messages that exist on the forum, the wiki is very reliable if needed in the enterprise portal.

User Personalization , if given the right of access by adminitrator, then the user is entitled to configure the portal page by adding, deleting, or fill the position of the content. Users also can store data and later distributed to other users who are still in one network.

Content-Based Sharing , Liferay considered reliable in sharing content and messages that are sent through the facilities of the forum, so users do not need to use email only to to send messages. Liferay also provides a menu for users in making changes in content and appearance

Basically, Liferay is able to make the enterprise portal as required, some other interesting features are also very worth to try and developed further.

20 Dec

Indonesian Language Translation for Liferay

We hereby annouce that the Indonesian Language Pack for Liferay have been included in the latest version of Liferay .

Softbless submits Indonesian Language Pack just a moment before the launching of Liferay 6. So if you want to try the Indonesian translation for Liferay, just download and install the latest version of Liferay.

If you find bugs or want to give improvement to this translation please contact us at info@softbless.com. Your contribution will be very useful, or here

15 Dec

Liferay Translation for Indonesian Language using Pootle

Liferay now use Pootle as a tool for translation.
Liferay Process Pack to Indonesian language has also been started and almost 100% finished. For those who want to contribute to give a better translation, can now participate with ease.
For more information, access: http://translate.liferay.com/pootle/
 

6 Mar

Enterprise Social Network Indonesia

Enterprise Social Network Enterprise Social Network Indonesia is a system of social interaction between users who work together in a company that aims to make communication and collaboration between users faster and more accurate. The use of this system makes it easy for you to connect with all company users, share information, manage teams, develop ongoing projects and most importantly, this system can be a place to form groups where each user can convey their ideas. Enterprise Social Networking is different from social networks in general, enterprise social media is more professional and is used within the scope of the company only. So that all your important information will be safe and can only be seen by users who have access rights to your company.a.

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Problems that often occur if there is no Enterprise Social Network Indonesia :

  • Difficulty integrating existing social networking systems with enterprise technology infrastructure
  • A common social interaction system has the potential for information or data leakage because the system can be accessed by many people without security permissions.
  • The process of exploring information and data is quite difficult to do because there is no place for each user to provide their ideas or suggestions.
  • Collaboration between teams with limited distance is still difficult to do so that the decision-making process of a project becomes slow

Benefits :

  • Ease of sharing information between users, making it easier to connect with each company user and can easily find out the latest information.
  • The project development process is easy to do because of the many ideas submitted by each user in helping the success of a project.
  • Employee productivity increases as they feel more connected to each other and communication goes both ways.
  • Good integration that can improve the quality of the intranet network so that participation and feedback in business applications increases.
  • Creating a good business culture with more open communication and being able to adapt to all changes in the existing business.
  Liferay supports Enterprise Social Networking Applications with Open Source licenses. This year, it is again in the Leader category in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, providing solutions for your business needs.

Liferay facilitates user interaction and system integration within the company

And has 16 years of experience in implementing systems to simplify the business processes that you manage.

Features Enterprise Social Network Indonesia :

  • Content publishing and sharing, each user can easily update content, share links, poll the hottest topics, hold events and ask questions.
  • Conversation and post, users can have conversations and connect in two directions so that results can be directly sent or shared with other users.
  • Group management, you can determine which users can view, read, update, delete content or articles that have been created.
  • Intranet/community, the existence of intranet facilities facilitates the integration of other applications;
  • Knowledge base/ Wiki, Provides a forum for collaboration of experts/Subject Matter Expert (SME)
  • News Feed, a feature to provide ideas to start a conversation between users.
  • Notes, users can easily make notes on the content or articles created
  • Task management, the task management feature makes it easier to delegate tasks related to a project.
 
Softbless's experience and expertise is very helpful in implementing Enterprise Social Networking applications using Liferay.
Please contact us for a consultation for business development. Softbless provides implementation, installation, customization, support and training for Liferay. The solutions we provide play an important role in the progress of your company.

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