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Leading Media Company
Partner Collaboration Portal using Liferay and Alfresco
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• Client Overview
– Leading American Media Company creating high profile content in lifestyle segment broadcasted in
numerous media platforms including TV, print, internet and mobile
– With over 10 offices across America, client employs over 2000 employees
• Challenges Faced
– In production of TV shows, client used a solution based on Apache Wicket Framework with custom
Java to collaborate with external team (eg: production companies)
• Low attention to web experience
– Usability was crude, and lacked focus on delivering users what they needed
• Maintenance overhead
– Dependency on internal support teams to manage roles of external users
• Team collaboration was primitive
– Often content and scripts were delivered between internal production and external team using handwritten copies
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• Key Features
– Scalable suite to collaborate online
• Re-architected functionalities similar to client’s 10 year old system
• Browser compatibility – IE, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari
– User management
• Role abstraction between internal and external users to access specific content
• Vendors were provided complete control to manage their users
• Integration with multiple active directories
• Role based security
• Single sign on
– SiteMinder for Liferay
– Token based authentication for Alfresco
– Workflow management
• Activiti BPM connected with registration module in Liferay (decoupled integration) allowing to register, approve users
– High volume file transfer using Apsera
• Users can upload 100 files (documents, images, videos etc.) of 175 MB each simultaneously
– Content, digital assets (pdfs, doc, images) stored in Alfresco ECM
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(Content and Metadata)
BPM
Internal/External Users
Aspera Connect
(Data Transfer)
RESTful web service
layer
Site Minder
SSO
Workflow
management
In house asset
management
system and
other applications
LDAP1 LDAP2
Solution Architecture
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• Key Benefits
– Simplified collaboration portal with rich user experience
• Features for user management reducing the overheads on system administrators
• Systematic alerts at specific areas that prompt users to action
– Scalability and architecture feasibility
• The solution architecture was build to scale, offering the client opportunity in the future to
integrate more components
– Business efficiency
• Uninterrupted data transfer (upload/download) saved time for both client’s employees and
external production houses
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