creating better customer and employee experiences with liferay portal and crafter cms
TRANSCRIPT
2
Agenda
• Introduction to Crafter Software
• Introduction to Liferay
• When to/not to integrate
• Good integration patterns
• Q&A
5
● User Friendly Content Authoring
● In-context Preview and Editing
● Multi-Channel Publishing
● Personalization and Content Targeting
● Time-machine like versioning
● Web Analytics Integration
● Site Blueprints
● Internationalization
● High Performance Content Delivery
● Ease of Integration – CRM, ERP, etc.
● On Premise and Cloud Support
Advanced Enterprise WCM Features
● Social, User Generated Content
● Identity management, SSO and profiles
● Multi-tenant infrastructure
6
100% Open Source, No Vendor Lock-in
● Open standards
● No vendor lock-in● GPL v3 license● All code on GitHub● Open community● Open wiki / documentation● Open issue tracking
8
● Websites
● Portals
● Collaboration Sites
● Mobile Apps
● Big Data Solutions
● Social Applications
● e-Commerce Sites
Crafter Use Cases
11
Leadership and Growth ○ Liferay is the open source leading portal technology. Recognized by Gartner and other
industry analysts, our portal combines the best of integrations, development, content
management and social collaboration.
Niche Players Visionaries
Challengers Leader
Gartner Magic Quadrant
From Visionary to Leader
13
● Portals
● Collaboration Sites
● Websites
● Mobile Apps
● Big Data Solutions
● Social Applications
● e-Commerce Sites
Liferay Use Cases
15
Perspective Differences
LIFERAY CRAFTER
● Too much overlap
● One platform should
suffice
● Use 3rd party libraries
● DO NOT Integrate
Liferay with Crafter
16
Perspective Differences
LIFERAY CRAFTER
● Use each solution based
on its strengths
● Separation of concerns
● Best of breed
integration
23
Summary
● Crafter and Liferay are both very powerful at the platform level
● Feature by feature comparison of both solutions is not productive
● Utilize a use-case based design approach
● Integration is not always the answer...understand the pros and cons
● Good integrations however result in higher ROI especially in the
long-term