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.