Liferay & Alfresco: Delivering Enterprise Content Through a Portal 02 August 2011

Liferay & AlfrescoDelivering EnterpriseContent Through a Portal

Agenda•  Introductions•  Background•  Why integrate Alfresco and Liferay?•  Use cases•  Demo•  Q&A #alfrescoliferay

Speakers James Falkner – Liferay Community Manager Peter Monks – Alfresco Director of Technology #alfrescoliferay

Maidenhead, UK Global Headquarters Atlanta, US HeadquartersAlfresco is now the largest private,pure-play open source softwarecompany in the world.3 million+ downloads of Alfresco community1700+ customers from 43+ countries200+ global channel partners20 consecutive quarters of revenue growthFounded in 2005 #alfrescoliferay

What is Alfresco?DocumentManagementCreate, capture,share & retain Recordscorporate content. Management Ensure governance, compliance & Web Content retention. Management Author, collaborate, approve & publish Enterprise to the web. Collaboration Create, collaborate, iterate, Open Source discuss & discover Platform content. Build content-rich apps & websites using New! Activiti RESTful APIs and open BPM standards. Alfresco’s newest open source project. #alfrescoliferay

What is Liferay?•  Most popular and widely downloaded open source portal o  Over 4 Million downloads and 50,000 downloads per month o  46,053 registered users on liferay.org o  16,343 forum participants o  164,342 forum posts o  50+ active contributors o  400k Deployments #alfrescoliferay

What is Liferay?Content and Design andPresentation UsabilityCollaboration ExtensibilityServices and Integration Analytics and Management #alfrescoliferay

Why Integrate?

Benefits of Alfresco Management of content of any kind, its lifecycle and processes. Capture Management n umptio Arc hiva Cons l #alfrescoliferay

Benefits of Liferay•  Easy to Use, Develop, Integrate o  Develop in any language, integrate any app•  Presentation o  OOTB content and presentation tools•  High Scale Delivery o  Independent scaling of all layers, monitoring•  Personalization, Collaboration, Social o  Easily target content and drive social value #alfrescoliferay

Why Integrate? Your SiteAlfresco Integrated Liferay• Focus on the Solution • Focus on the processes around • Enables process and presentation of content presentation of content and content, alongside integration of applications applications #alfrescoliferay

Use Cases

Intranet•  B2E •  Social Engagement •  Role-Based •  EAI #alfrescoliferay

Intranet•  Uses out of the box components o  Document Library, Asset Publisher o  Collaboration Applications•  Integrates existing applications o  HR, CRM, Other•  Uses common identity/access•  Participation in collaboration activities #alfrescoliferay

Intranet Site – Sample ArchitectureIT Infrastructure Audiences Content CRUD as needed Content Specialists ERP, CRM, … Rank & File Employees #alfrescoliferay

Demo•  Create example site for employees•  Mount CMIS Repository in Liferay #alfrescoliferay

Public Website – Use Case•  Large number of predominantly anonymous users o  “Web scale” performance requirements for delivery tier•  Primarily R/O content o  R/W limited to eCommerce, UGC, etc.•  Highly customized LaF o  Brand-specific site design•  Moderate content set size o  Typically only 1,000s – 10,000s content items #alfrescoliferay

Public Website – How Alfresco & LiferayIntegrate•  Editorial process for •  Visual presentation site content of site o  Creation of articles, o  Navigation, page press releases, composition, product information, personalization, etc. analytics o  Approval processes, o  Performance publication, etc. optimizations #alfrescoliferay

Public Website – Sample ArchitectureEditorial Tier Delivery Tier Internet Replication Request / response Editors Site Visitors #alfrescoliferay

Other use cases•  Intranet and public internet are the 2 most commonly seen use cases o  Not the only use cases however!•  Other use cases are typically variations of these two o  These architectures can still serve as a reference for other use cases•  Key differentiator is whether content is: o  R/W via portal – closer to intranet use case or o  R/O in portal – closer to public website use case #alfrescoliferay

Questions?

For more information•  Alfresco Community o  www.alfresco.org•  Alfresco Documentation o  docs.alfresco.com•  Liferay Community o  www.liferay.org•  Liferay Documentation o  www.liferay.com/documentation #alfrescoliferay

Continue the Conversation•  James Falkner james.falkner@liferay.com @schtool•  Peter Monks pmonks@alfresco.com @pmonks #alfrescoliferay

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