mimacom & liferay roadshow : introduction to liferay platform
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A talk from Joseph Shum, the General manager of Liferay Germany, focused on Introduction to Liferay platform on mimacom & Liferay Roadshow in Vienna on 6th June 2012TRANSCRIPT
Introducing Liferay
Joseph Shum Director of Operations Europe, Liferay GmbH
Vienna Roadshow – June 6, 2012
What is Liferay?
What is Liferay?
• Open Source. • A Portal Platform. • For the Enterprise.
Liferay is Open Source – Since 2001
Used World Wide as a Portal Solution
Liferay is Open Source
Liferay is Open Source – Active Community
Liferay is Open Source – Growing Community
Liferay is Open Source – Community Development
Liferay Community Projects
New Features Developed by the Community
· Communities (Sites) · Virtual Hosts · Security – SAML v2 · EXT Plugin · Translations · Control Panel · Improved SEO · Flagging Content · Advancements to Portlets (Wiki, Calendar) · LAR import / export
Portal Platform Architecture
• Phased Development / Deployment • Leverage 60+ Out of the Box Portlet Applications including Content Management, Document Management, Collaboration and Social Networking. • Use Existing Frameworks for Authorization, Authentication, Preferences, Workflow, Search, Look and Feel …
Portal Platform Architecture
Enterprise Leader
“Liferay's open-source success is due to its sharp focus, functional excellence, and ease of development and deployment, as much as cost.”
Global Presence
Liferay – Our Company
• Global commercial Open Source company since 2004 • 300+ Employees worldwide
What is Enterprise Edition (EE)?
Customer Network Customer Portal Access to EE Marketplace Participation in Roadmap
Community Edition
Tools
Enterprise Edition
Liferay Developer Studio
Services Maintenance
Support Professional Services
Training
Certified Codebase Testing
Quality Assurance Scalability / Performance
Security
Scalability
Quality Assurance
Security
Community Edition
Testing
Performance
Why Enterprise Edition?
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Customer: Public Administration
Banks
Retail
Media
Insurance
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• Hard to Maintain • Risk Quality • Risk Performance • Risk Scalability • Risk Compatibility (Upgrades)
Costs for Liferay, Costs for the customer.
CE 3.x 4.x
Cost of Supporting Community Edition
Customer Project Source Code
Public Administration
CE 3.x 4.x 5.x 6.x
Fix Patch Fix Patch
Patch Patch
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• Maintaining your own branch of Liferay source code.
• Project source code becomes more and more complex as time goes on.
• Lose performance and stability. • Lose guaranteed compatibility with future
versions of Liferay. • Costs increase over time.
Supporting Enterprise Edition
CE
Lower Cost with Enterprise Edition
EE SP1 Fix Pack Fix Pack
5.2 CE
6.0 CE
6.1 CE
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Bug Fix
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Guaranteed Ongoing Maintenance with End of Life Service Policy
Lower Cost with Enterprise Edition
EE SP1 Fix Pack Fix Pack
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Guaranteed Ongoing Maintenance with End of Life Service Policy • Simple to Maintain • Higher Quality • Better Performance • Reliable Scalability • Guaranteed Compatibility
(Upgrades)
Lower overall costs for the customer.
Certified Codebase
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Development Tools
Customer Network
Director of Operations, Europe Joseph Shum
Thank you!