Latest Liferay News

Liferay Launches Liferay Portal 6 Enterprise Edition at the Liferay West Coast Symposium
Portal Leader Brings New Life to the Enterprise with a Single Light Weight Platform for Web Content Management, Portals and Social Collaboration

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. – September 8, 2010 – Liferay, Inc., provider of the world’s fastest growing enterprise-class open source portal framework, today announced the launch of Liferay Portal 6 Enterprise Edition, a full featured portal platform that enables enterprises to collaborate, build communities, and increase revenues. Liferay Portal 6 Enterprise Edition (Liferay Portal 6EE) contains enhanced enterprise social collaboration functionality, a built-in Web Content Management system, rich developer tools, and powerful support features.

"Gartner put Liferay in its leader/visionary quadrant in 2010 for a reason," said Paul Hinz, Liferay's Chief Marketing Officer. "Liferay 6EE meets the industry's demand for a complete web content management system, combined with social collaboration and portal functionality. With Liferay’s strong mission critical enterprise support, Liferay 6EE is the leading solution for any enterprise looking to build a website, a portal, a collaboration solution, or to replace their aging web portal."

As part of the launch for this highly anticipated product, Liferay 6EE’s debut will be broadcasted live (www.liferay.com/live), today at 9 a.m. PT, when Liferay founder and Chief Software Architect, Brian Chan will showcase the new features from the stage of Liferay’s West Coast Symposium.

“We’ve been a Liferay partner since 2008 and use their platform to create effective portal experiences for our clients, some of which include Marvell, Qualcomm and Monster Energy,” said Curt Van Inwegen, Vice President of Client Services at LEVEL, an independent digital agency that delivers integrated marketing and product development for global brands. “We look forward to the 6EE offering and how it can positively impact the communities of the brands we serve.”

To further engage Liferay’s worldwide community and network, a number of special offers are now available, including a free 30-day trial of Liferay 6EE and a “First Year Free” offer made through the “Design with Liferay” program to select users who are currently using other enterprise portal products.

“With tens of thousands of enterprises facing ‘end of feature life’ for their current portal, enterprises should leverage the ‘Design with Liferay’ program and begin evaluating Liferay 6EE now,” said Liferay’s Hinz.

What’s New in Liferay 6EE:
Liferay Portal 6EE is an enterprise-grade, low cost, and easy to use solution for building web sites and applications. Combining portal, web content management and social collaboration into a single package, Liferay 6EE offers capabilities such as:

Web Content Management (WCM) – Liferay’s built-in WCM system makes web publishing, editing, building new pages, assigning workflows and developing templates extremely easy for both technical and non-technical users. 

• Powerful web-publishing with one-click page creation and dynamic templates and structures
• User-defined workflow leveraging an extremely granular system of roles-based authorization
• Dynamic content sharing and document management with Microsoft Office® integration
• Localization into over 30 languages
• Seamless integration with social collaboration features

Enterprise Social Collaboration – Social features are integrated into the community and organization-centric structure of the portal, allowing departments or other user-defined groups to collaborate globally and in real-time. Notable features include:

• Enhanced, real-time activity tracking of user and group activity
• Full suite of RSS-enabled and ratable Wikis, Blogs, and Forums
• Familiar office tools including enterprise chat, a built-in mail client, personal and group calendars, and address books and contacts
• Collaborative and team-driven content creation
• OpenSocial support allowing Google Gadgets to run natively in Liferay
• Full Social API framework with seamless integration with WCM

   

Design and Usability – Liferay 6EE offers significant usability enhancements for ease of administration as well as tools to help developers build dynamic UIs with the Liferay platform. Notable features include:

• New UI metaframework, Alloy UI that provides a simple API for building web applications across all three levels of a browser: structure, style and behavior. It works with HTML5, CSS and Javascript.
• Tasteful use of AJAX technology for a fast, interactive user experience
• Simple and intuitive page and community navigation
• Familiar desktop controls for easy end-user adoption

Extensibility and Integrations – Liferay is flexible, easy to extend, and easy to integrate with external applications and systems. It runs PHP, Ruby, Python, Grails and other lightweight scripting technologies within a robust Java framework, with wide standards and web services support. Notable features include:

• Liferay Developer Studio, a best-of-breed set of Eclipse plugins that expedites and simplifies plug-in development
• Built-in social API framework for creating customized social networks
• Built-in scripting frameworks and flexible scripting support
• Built-in personalization rules engine
• A new plugin architecture that fosters the growth of a far-reaching ecosystem of plugins and add-ons for the Liferay platform

Analytics and Management - To help administrators optimize resources and monitor portal performance, Liferay Portal provides helpful dashboards, user activity tracking and management, and key performance statistics (hits/page, average time/hit, max time per request, and more). Notable features include:

• Simple, clean administrative dashboards for portlet, portal and system performance monitoring
• Enhanced scalability of the portal’s search engine via ClusterLink, allowing administrators to cluster a series of search engines without a SAN
• Sharding capabilities that greatly improve space optimization and usage of the portal database
• Liferay Enterprise Support Application (LESA), a new, easy to use enterprise-grade support interface for customers

  For more information about Liferay Portal 6EE and the company’s special offers, please visit www.liferay.com/products.

   

About Liferay, Inc.
Liferay is the provider of leading enterprise open source portal and collaboration software products, used by companies worldwide, including Allianz, AutoZone, Benetton Group, Cisco Systems, Lufthansa Flight Training, The French Ministry of Defense, and the United Nations. The company offers professional services, technical support, custom development and professional training to ensure successful deployment in the most demanding IT environments.

Liferay, Liferay Portal, and the Liferay logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Liferay, Inc., in the United States and other countries.

####

Contact:

Alice Cheng
 

1-877-LIFERAY 

pr@liferay.com
Twitter: liferay

Liferay Begins Launch Countdown For Liferay Portal 6 Enterprise Edition
Liferay Portal 6EE Will Be Launched at the West Coast Symposium on September 8th

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. – August 31, 2010 – Liferay, Inc., provider of the world’s fastest growing enterprise-class open source portal framework, with hundreds of thousands of deployments, today announced a special countdown leading to the launch of Liferay Portal 6 Enterprise Edition (Liferay 6EE) on September 8th.

The highly anticipated Liferay 6EE will bring new enhancements to enterprise productivity with multiple new features and innovations in the areas of web content management, social collaboration, design and usability, extensibility and integration, and analytics and management.

Starting today, August 31st, there will be six days of video sneak peaks from Liferay engineers of the new functionality available in Liferay 6EE. To see these videos each day, please visit http://www.liferay.com/products.

• Tuesday, August 31 - Enhanced Workflow with Stephen Kostas, Documentation Engineer
• Wednesday, September 1 – Contextual Personalization with Stephen Kostas, Documentation Engineer
• Thursday, September 2 – User Friendly Structures with Aaron Delani, UI Software Engineer
• Friday, September 3 – Alloy UI with Nate Cavanaugh, Director of UI Engineering
• Monday, September 6 – Custom Fields and Attributes with Julio Camerero, Software Engineer
• Tuesday, September 7 – Liferay IDE with Greg Amerson, Senior Software Engineer
• Wednesday, September 8 – Live broadcast of 6EE Debut at the Liferay West Coast Symposium

The launch of Liferay 6EE will happen at the Liferay West Coast Symposium on Wednesday, September 8th at 9 a.m. PT. The product will be demoed by Liferay founder and Chief Software Architect, Brian Chan, and will also be broadcasted live from Liferay’s website. People can register for this live broadcast by going to http://www.liferay.com/web-events. Those interested in attending the West Coast Symposium can register for the event at http://www.liferay.com/wcs.

About Liferay, Inc.

Liferay, Inc. is the provider of leading enterprise open source portal and collaboration software products, recognized by Gartner in the Magic Quadrant and used by Fortune 500 companies worldwide, including Allianz, AutoZone, Benetton Group, Cisco Systems, Lufthansa Flight Training, The French Ministry of Defense, and the United Nations. Liferay, Inc. offers professional services, technical support, custom development and professional training to ensure successful deployment in the most demanding IT environments. For more information, please visit www.liferay.com.

Liferay, Liferay Portal, and the Liferay logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Liferay, Inc., in the United States and other countries.

####

Contact:

Alice Cheng
1-877-LIFERAY
pr@liferay.com
Twitter: liferay

 Join us for 2 days of collaboration, training and networking!

The Liferay West Coast Symposium is here. It'll be in Anaheim, CA. As an added value, we've extended the former 1 day conference to 2 days of hands-on workshops, technical and business sessions, compelling user case studies, and networking with Liferay's core leadership and technical leads. 

This year's conference will give attendees an in-person introduction to our upcoming Liferay Portal 6 EE release, its notable new features, and how this latest release can enhance your organization.

Event Website: http://www.liferay.com/wcs
Date: September 8-9, 2010
Location: Crowne Plaza Resort
Early Bird: $349/person (expires August 11)

Register today!
http://www.liferay.com/about-us/events/liferay-symposiums/west-coast-2010/register

 Liferay Continues Global Expansion with New Office in Brazil
Open Source Leader Expands Footprint in the South American market

LOS ANGELES – [BUSINESS WIRE] – Liferay, Inc., provider of leading open source portal software for the enterprise, recently inaugurated a new office in Recife, one of Brazil’s growing IT centers, as part of an ongoing global growth strategy. The new office will act as a strategic center for sales, development, training and support services to the fast-growing South American market.

“The Liferay Brazil team includes a mix of talented product engineers and business experts familiar with the Brazilian and South American markets,” said Bruno Farache, General Manager of Liferay Brazil. “We are meeting present-day demands for Liferay products and services and actively growing Liferay's community in South America as well as the Portuguese-speaking community at large.”

In addition to providing development efforts and community benefits worldwide, the Liferay Brazil office also supports a fast-growing roster of partners and customers. Notably, a majority of Liferay Brazil’s key clients come from the hard to win government sector.

“Our team is already building up a strong reputation and presence with customers and partners alike,” said Bryan Cheung, CEO of Liferay, Inc. “We look forward to strong sales and adoption in the burgeoning South American market.”

For more information about Liferay Portal, its users, and its partners, please visit www.liferay.com.

About Liferay, Inc.

Liferay is the provider of leading enterprise open source portal and collaboration software products, used by companies worldwide, including Allianz, AutoZone, Benetton Group, Cisco Systems, Lufthansa Flight Training, The French Ministry of Defense, and the United Nations. The company offers professional services, technical support, custom development and professional training to ensure successful deployment in the most demanding IT environments. For more information, please visit www.liferay.com.

Liferay, Liferay Portal, and the Liferay logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Liferay, Inc., in the United States and other countries.

####

Contact:
 

Liferay, Inc.
Alice Cheng

1-877-LIFERAY

 Liferay Announces Availability of Liferay Social Office EE

RESTON, VA – [BUSINESS WIRE] – Liferay, Inc., announced the immediate availability of Liferay Social Office Enterprise Edition (EE) on the second day of the company’s East Coast Symposium. Previously available as a community edition beta, Liferay’s new enterprise social collaboration solution is now available for purchase with a full support SLA. With a wide range of collaboration features pre-configured for use within mixed groups of enterprise teams, partners, and customers, Social Office provides enterprises a real open solution within the burgeoning market for social collaboration software.

The relationship is evidence of Liferay’s increasing demand worldwide and Liferay’s commitment to the Japanese market. It is also part of Liferay’s larger corporate strategy to reach a fast-growing eco-system, with more than 60 integration partners serving hundreds of customers in six continents and an open source community spanning 222 countries.

“Liferay Social Office is designed to help groups be more productive by making it easy to share information and ideas using social computing technologies,” said Bryan Cheung, Liferay’s Chief Executive Officer. “Designed with input from Liferay’s extensive open source community and a commitment to open standards, Liferay Social Office provides the first serious open alternative to SharePoint® for enterprises evolving to the next generation of productivity tools. We are pleased to make Liferay Social Office available to customers in an Enterprise Edition.“

Useful for both large and small groups of enterprise teams, Liferay Social Office is a ready-to-use solution for document sharing and team collaboration, with team calendaring, user profiles, blogs, wikis, forums, federated search, and task management. Integration with Microsoft® Office for document creation and management is intuitive and easy to use. Social Office does not require extensive configuration or expensive proprietary infrastructure software, running on a simple combination of MySQL and Tomcat. Companies can start small and scale up with the solution as demand grows.

“Even a small work team can setup Liferay Social Office in a few minutes and immediately be collaborating more effectively on a specific project or with their larger team. With an enterprise-wide deployment, hundreds of project teams can work individually and then share their team’s or project’s information resources across the enterprise, while maintaining control with strict identity management.” Said Paul Hinz, Liferay’s Chief Marketing Officer. “Imagine leveraging Liferay Social Office where a project team assigned a specific task can now search, find, and leverage information or discoveries from other teams or from long-past efforts.”

Liferay Social Office is immediately available with up to a 24-7 one-hour support SLA through both subscription and traditional pricing models. For more information, please visit www.liferay.com and http://www.liferay.com/products/liferay-social-office.

About Liferay, Inc.

Liferay is the provider of leading enterprise open source portal and collaboration software products, used by companies worldwide, including Allianz, AutoZone, Benetton Group, Cisco Systems, Lufthansa Flight Training, The French Ministry of Defense, and the United Nations. The company offers professional services, technical support, custom development and professional training to ensure successful deployment in the most demanding IT environments. For more information, please visit www.liferay.com.

Liferay, Liferay Portal, and the Liferay logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Liferay, Inc., in the United States and other countries.

####

Contact:


Design with Liferay
Portal Leader launches new program to help users approaching EOL worldwide.

RESTON, VA – [BUSINESS WIRE] – Liferay, Inc., today announced a new “Design with Liferay” program at its East Coast Symposium. The program addresses the recent consolidation trends in the portal market by providing a migration path for portal users facing end of feature life (EOL) with their existing platforms. As part of this campaign, Liferay also debuted Alloy UI, its new UI framework to further enhance ease of development and use.

To assist business and technical managers in their transition, Liferay today launched the “Design with Liferay” program (www.liferay.com/design). Customers of proprietary portal products may be eligible for a free year of support and can participate in a transition workshop to help guide their adoption of the Liferay platform. Many portal users are looking for a strategy to efficiently transition to a modern portal platform. Liferay, with a global open source community, innovative features, and lightweight development model, provides an extremely competitive option for these customers.

“Liferay Portal is well loved in enterprises worldwide, but customers need a safe and cost-effective plan to transition from their older platforms,” said Paul Hinz, Liferay’s Chief Marketing Officer. “While customers could choose to pay for a support contract after a product enters end of feature life, implementations become stagnant and tie up technical resources used to maintain deployments. Liferay partners and the Design with Liferay program will help enterprises restore competitiveness by investing in a modern platform for enterprise solutions.”

As part of this effort, Liferay also announced the immediate availability of Liferay Alloy UI. Developed in collaboration with Yahoo’s YUI project, Alloy UI provides a set of rich user interface components for quickly creating user-friendly portlets, widgets, and web applications. Alloy UI deals with the complexities of CSS, HTML, and Javascript, freeing developers to focus on business requirements and functionality. Alloy UI also helps solve some common cross-browser compatibility issues that typically consume project resources. The new library does not require a portal and can be used to develop components for any web application. Liferay Portal will standardize its front-end framework around Alloy UI, expanding the simplicity and capabilities of modern portal-based enterprise solutions.

“Alloy UI represents a new capability for web developers to simplify the development of rich UIs,” said Brian Chan, Liferay Portal’s creator and Chief Software Architect. “We are happy to have worked on this with the Yahoo team and feel it will be a great asset to help developers with their solutions.”

These announcements were broadcast in real-time via Liferay LIVE, the company’s innovative new channel for sharing knowledge with community members growing their understanding of the Liferay platform. Live-video presentations for business and technical audiences will replace the standard webinars offered by most companies. Participants will be able to interact and give feedback live during each session. Select sessions from the second day of the East Coast Conference will be broadcast via Liferay LIVE as well. For more information, please visit www.liferay.com/live.

About Liferay, Inc.
Liferay is the provider of leading enterprise open source portal and collaboration software products, used by companies worldwide, including Allianz, AutoZone, Benetton Group, Cisco Systems, Lufthansa Flight Training, The French Ministry of Defense, and the United Nations. The company offers professional services, technical support, custom development and professional training to ensure successful deployment in the most demanding IT environments. Liferay, Liferay Portal, and the Liferay logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Liferay, Inc., in the United States and other countries.

####

Contact:
 Alice Cheng

1-877-LIFERAY
pr@liferay.com
Twitter: liferay