1. Case: Etex

2. 18,000 employees
105 companies
45 countries
20 languages
6 divisions
1 GROUP

3. We need to share information
and knowledge across the
different companies
in the group!
The solution must be
flexible enough to allow
new companies to join the group!

4. Corporate
- About Etex
- Who’s who
- Announcements
Division
- Division info
- Announcements
Company
- Working At…
- Tools
- Announcements
Organisation overview
Etex Corporate
…
…
AMEA EBM West LatAm
Promat Belgium
espresso.promat-belgium.be
Creaton
espresso.creaton.com

5. Communities
- Discussion forum
- Info pages
- Events calendar
- Document Library
ANYBODY can create a community on ANY subject

6. People
Similar to Facebook and LinkedIn
- Connect with friends/colleagues
- Post status updates
- Comment to posts
- Share images/documents
- Chat

7. Demo

9. Agile approach
Impact was underestimated by the client
Difficult to organize within such a large multinational group
Input from too many users, too many companies, which led to
a lot of scope changes

10. Standard Liferay
Lots of out-of-the-box components available => use them
Standard components, different presentation
Flexible Development API

11. Complex permissions
Advanced out-of-the-box permission settings
Complex custom permission implementation possible
Pluggable architecture

12. Liferay backend
Seems to be more for technical oriented users
Backend-users need minimal training

13. Liferay maturity
Liferay is becoming a mature product
Growth to maturity comes with some minor bugs
Very good Liferay support which managed to solve +90% of the
bugs within 48 hours

14. Conclusion
Best choice if you have a mix of Content Management, Document
Management and Social Collaboration
Liferay is a good choice for a phased approach
Portlets offer a flexible way to restructure the content of the
pages completely without any code changes
Liferay can be used for public website, intranet, … on one
installation, without additional license costs