Liferay Portal offers several key advantages for organizations including the lowest total cost of ownership compared to competitors, rich out-of-the-box functionality, product innovation, improved business agility, and an open source product with full support. It provides a complete portal environment beyond just content management that can be used to develop applications and intranets. While training is required to use the framework and skilled resources can be challenging to find, Liferay is used successfully by many large international organizations.

1. Liferay Portal advantages
 Liferay has the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) compared to its
competitors starting with its licensing and getting it up and running through
development costs, operational costs, and training/support costs (from the
perspective of infrastructure, developers, administrators, and end users).
 Second-to-none rich out-of-the-box (OOTB) functionality around core
portal, content management, collaboration, social, mobile, security and
more; check out http://www.liferay.com/products/liferay-
portal/features/portal for more information.
 All portal products typically need extensions and/or additions to deliver
requisite functionality – with Liferay you can simply do more within a
specific budget.
 Product innovation – leader in introducing new capabilities whether it be
AJAX or friendly URLs or mobile or social
 Improved business agility – it is lightweight in nature; you can quickly get
it up and running, and it is easier to develop on/manage.

2. Liferay Portal advantages..
 A mature Enterprise Open Source (fully supported) product –
24x7x365 platinum support with 1 hour response time SLA; this
includes access to all service packs, hot fixes, notifications of
security alerts, phone and web based support.
 Liferay’s open architecture and its open source nature help you
avoid lock-in to a single proprietary vendor.
 Liferay’s hook and extension plugin model allows you to tailor
product behavior to your needs without rewriting from scratch and
without creating upgrade hell.
 Liferay offers opportunities for product feature sponsorship to
enable contributions back into the core product for key
customizations – this allows you to offload responsibility of
maintaining and enhancing your custom features back to Liferay.
 Liferay offers you a full choice of application servers,
databases, and operating systems to run on, thereby allowing
you to leverage your infrastructure and skills investment.

3. Liferay Portal advantages....
 Liferay is NOT just a Java based CMS. It’s a complete portal environment
that’s suitable for large enterprise usage. It should be used as a platform to
develop in-house applications or intranet.
 Some people compare Liferay with PHP based CMS systems like Joomla
or Wordpress but that’s not completely correct. Liferay does contain CMS a.
It’s rather useful for small and medium business . At the same time liferay
provides integration facility with better cms like alfresco.
 Based on JSR 168 and JSR 286 standards means you can deploy Portlet
applications that others have developed and vice versa.

4. Liferay Out of box Features
 User and Group management
 Multi-site support for having different pages and themes for different user groups
 Proper Access rights and Role management
 Internationalization
 Document library management
 Wiki, Blogging and Forums
 Service Oriented Architecture
 Theme support
 Integrates with other existing systems using LDAP, RSS, iFrames and other
technologies
 More Out of Box Portlets with Liferay
 http://www.liferay.com/community/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Out+of+The+Box+Portlets
 More Portal Features
 http://www.liferay.com/products/liferay-portal/features/portal

5. Technical Specifications

6. The challenges in using Liferay
 Training over the Liferay Framework is required to start with development .
 organizations run into the challenges of finding skilled resource .

7. Liferay major users
Major International brands which are using Liferay extensively for there
internet and intranet application
 Allianz (example > http://www.Allianz.com)
(http://www.allianz.com.au/media/news/2010/allianz-leverages-liferay-portal)
 Volkswagon (example > https://carnet.vw.com/ )
 Cisco (example > solutionpartner.cisco.com)
 Vodafone (example > www.betavine.net)
 ESA (example > http://www.geoportal.org/)
India majors
 Yatra.com
 Hungama.com
Liferay success stories
 http://www.liferay.com/products/liferay-portal/stories

8. Responsive mobile websites on Liferay
 mcdonalds.de
 www.arcusys.fi
 www.cabina14.es
 www.freezity.com
 www.tritonsvc.com
 www.amg.net.pl
 www.evoltia.com
 www.iecisa.com
 www.isostech.com
 www.monator.com
 www.soleasolutions.com
 www.ios.com.br
 www.fifthandpacific.com
 www.greatdanetrailers.com
 www.componence.com

9. Sites using Liferay in various fields
E-Commerce Sites
 http://www.fashionandyou.com
 http://www.benetton.com
 https://www.bugaboo.com/
 http://www2.us.huhtamaki.com/
Banking
 http://www.societegenerale.com/en/home
 Raiffeisen bank
 Avanza bank
Liferay Market place
 http://www.liferay.com/marketplace/-/mp/application/30279175

10. High Availability and High Performance
 Liferay Portal has been tested to support more than 3,000 concurrent
transactions (33,000 simultaneous users) on a single 8-core application
server, with mean login times under one second and maximum ½ throughput
of 79+ logins per second. Our Web Content Management (WCM) system
scales to beyond 150,000 concurrent users on a single Liferay Portal server
with average transaction times under 50ms and 35% CPU utilization; In high-
traffic web-publishing scenarios, Liferay Portal has proven to handle millions
of page views and over 1.3 million users. Additionally, in collaboration and
social networking scenarios, each physical server supports over 1300
concurrent users at average transaction times of under 800ms.
 Liferay Portal is also deployable to the Cloud and virtual server environments
and ensures high availability and performance with:
 Hardware/Software Load Balancing, HTTP Failover, Session Replication
 Distributed Cache using Lightweight Multicast Protocol
 Terracotta, Oracle RAC, and other scalability solutions

11. Gartner Magic Quadrant for Horizontal
Portals