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LIFERAY FEATURE OVERVIEW

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Lieray Web Content Management OverviewLieray Portal includes a complete Web Content Management System that enables you to build rich web content that can be combined

with application portlets, widgets and gadgets. Lieray Portal, with its included WCM, provides you powerul yet easy-to-use tools with

sophisticated eatures like one-click page creation and easy rich text editors to build web pages, websites and web applications.

KEY LIFERAY WCM FEATURES

1. WebSite and Content Creation

From simple articles with text and images to ully unctional websites, Lierays WCM helps you create and maintain

content with ease and eciency. Some o the basic eatures o Lierays WCM include:

a. Easy-to-Use Web Publishing

i. One-Click Page Creation

ii. Drag-and-Drop Site Maps

iii. Asset Publisher vs. Web Content Display

b. Web-Based Editing

i. Easy Rich Text Editors

ii. Live Page Editing

c. Structures and Templates

i. Structure Comments

d. Scheduling and Workow Approvals

e. Multi-Language Support

. Staging

g. Export/Import Pages and Sites

h. SEO

2. SHared doCUMent and Media Library

Additionally, Lieray Portal and WCM include a ull document and image library. Enterprise-wide document and image

libraries allow groups to store, tag, lock, search or and leverage assets in web pages or download them or use oine.

By leveraging Lierays strong community aspects, individual document libraries are made available to each community

or domain as dened within the portal. Individuals also benet rom their own document and image library where they

can store assets in the cloud. The multi-domain document library has the ollowing eatures and more:

a. Multi-Format Document Lib (docs, videos, etc.)

b. Multiple File Uploads

c. Organizing Documents and Content

d. Document Conversions

e. Document/Video Previews

. Thumbnail Generation

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3. USer featUreS and deSktoP integrationS

Lieray is integrated to allow users to work with Microsot Oce les located on their local drive and automatically sync

them to a Lieray document repository. Content syndication provides the ability to transmit or receive inormation with

greater depth and immediacy. Lieray Sync ofers oine synchronization or documents within the Lieray document library.

Lieray supplies a platorm or content, applications and document services that provide integration between a users

desktop and online experience. Some o the eatures that simpliy a users online experience are:

a. Integration with MS Oce (or document storage/retrieval)

b. Content Syndication

c. Content Virtualization / Dynamic Virtual Hosting

d. Lieray Sync

4. roLe-baSed ControLS and WorkfLoW

When you publish an asset in Lieray, you have the option to apply workow approvals. This can be used or standard

web content, but it may also apply to other types o content within the portal. Users can lock, open, edit and save a

document that is then processed or approval beore it is available to share with others. Lieray includes a complete

workow engine that can be used to coordinate how content is reviewed and published. When individuals work in a team

to manage web content, role-based control allows others to review and approve the content beore it is published live.

(Workow denitions can be done using standard BPEL.)

a. User-Driven Workow & Approval: Many types o content can be dened to require a workow process or approvals

beore being published or made available to others.

b. Access Control: Lieray provides content and access to content/eatures based on a users identity. This allows

content, applications, pages and sites to be dened as available or not given a persons ormal identity (e.g., a user in

the sales organization can access specic pages that other users cannot).

c. Roles and Delegation: Workows can be controlled by predened user roles (i.e., a users manager must approve

beore content is published). Additionally, users can dene delegation authority based on predened identities.

5. WCM indUStry and eMerging StandardS

Lieray supports an extensive set o industry and de acto standards (i.e., widely used standards within the web/portal/

collaboration industry). Some recent standards added that are signicant or web content management are:

a. CMIS: Available Lieray 6.0 allows a standard interace or content management systems. Lieray can support

other enterprise content management systems that support CMIS. Lieray 6.1 will support multiple simultaneous

CMIS repositories.

b. JSR 170: Java standard similar to CMIS.

c. Open Social: Allows the deployment o gadgets that support Open Social standard. Additionally allows applications

and content to support access based on a sel-dened riend network or group o community users.

d. BPEL (Business Process Execution Language): Lieray supports BPEL or the denition o workows with theportal, allowing users to leverage external workow denition editors. Lieray can additionally leverage external

workow engines.


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6. CoLLaboration ServiCeS

Websites oten add collaborative social eatures to standard content or applications. Lieray includes many social

and collaborative services that can be used within a website or portal. For example, a site may enable users to add

comments or rate articles, provide users a ull orum discussion area, or allow users to see other users online. Sites may

also enable users to dene their own community sections and control the users and content or applications available to

users within the community site. Lieray combines collaborative sites with static content sites or portals and allows a

set o collaboration services permit developers to build powerul new applications and sites beyond what standard

Web Content Management systems have done in the past. Some o the eatures not already listed are:

a. Workspace Publishing

b. Blogs, Wiki, Forums

c. Presence, Chat and Messaging

d. Sel-Dened Friend Network (Social Graph)

e. Community Sites

7. enterPriSe integration tooLS

Web content viewed within a portal can be manually created or may come rom external sources integrated with Lieray

Portal or into portlets. For example, an inventory portlet may integrate with an external inventory control system and

display current inventory levels per warehouse. As a web platorm, Lieray provides multiple methods to integrate with

external content and data. Lieray can be leveraged in a sophisticated Service Oriented Architecture as well as used or

simple integrations via REST or RSS subscriptions. Lieray as a platorm allows developers to easily integrate using:

a. REST, SOAP, API-based integration support (HTTP+, JSON, Atom Pub, Lieray EXT/Hook, etc.).

b. Extreme scalability and reliability allowing developers to integrate multiple external services and make them available

to millions o users.

8. SearCH

Search is a vital aspect or any portal since it allows users to nd desired content within a massive data repository.

Integrated with tagging and metadata capabilities, Lierays multi-tier search provides the ability to search across all assets

within the portal in which they have access, while also restricting them rom assets in which they do not. Some key eatures

in Lieray search are:

a. Ad-Hoc Tagging

b. Metadata Headers (using Sitemap protocol)

c. Categorization

d. Multi-Tier Search

e. Search within Files

. Search Optimization

g. Open Searchh. Faceted Search


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