Fulcrum Expands Its Liferay Practice Becoming Liferay's Silver Level Partner

Online, January 21, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Fulcrum, the global IT services provider, and a market leader in delivering portal solutions to the fortune 500 companies, announced today that they have entered into partnership with Liferay, the leading provider of enterprise open source portal technology. They announced a plan for rapid expansion to its Liferay practice having become a Silver Level Liferay partner. This partnership enables Fulcrum to significantly extend its service offerings in the open source market.

"Liferay has become the leading independent, open source platform for building web applications to solve business problems in many industries", says Rajesh Sinha, CEO, Fulcrum. "Liferay, being a provider of leading open source enterprise portal and collaboration software, is their first choice of many industries. This is not surprising as Liferay provides features which are the combination of an extensible, feature-rich platform and business-friendly licensing is unmatched in the market."

Fulcrum will now have access to Liferay's Customer & Partner Portal ecosystem which will provide us access to the materials and training that we need to effectively sell, develop, and deliver business solutions using Liferay software.

About Fulcrum:
Fulcrum Worldwide Inc. is recognized as a global thought leader in the mid-size market. Headquartered in NJ, USA and with global delivery centers at Reading UK, Mumbai & Pune, India; Fulcrum builds long term partnerships with its customers by providing Portal/Architecture assessments, Framework based solutions, Middleware integration, Cloud based services, Digital development (Mobile/UI/UX), Real time analytics, ECM, CRM etc. They have delivered more than 50 enterprise wide portals in Insurance, Manufacturing, Education, Food Processing, Media & Life Sciences industries. They are a certified CMMI organization with a metrics driven culture. Fulcrum's industry recognitions include: "Top 10 Most Promising IT Companies in India 2010", "15th Best IT employer in India by IDC Data Quest, 2008", "Fastest Growing Private Organization by INC in 2008/09", etc.

Fulcrum's established Portal CoE used LifeRay to enhance the collaboration capabilities & improvise the knowledge management for a global Food & Dairy Products Co. Their LifeRay team configured a previously failed installation in a complex, clustered environment and upgraded the LifeRay product to the latest stack for a leading global Media brand to roll out a global employee portal.

About Liferay Inc.:
Liferay is the provider of leading enterprise open source portal and collaboration software products, used by companies worldwide, including Allianz, AutoZone, Benetton Group, Cisco Systems, Lufthansa Flight Training, The French Ministry of Defense, and the United Nations. The company offers professional services, technical support, custom development, and professional training to ensure successful deployment in the most demanding IT environments.Liferay, Liferay Portal, and the Liferay logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Liferay, Inc., in the United States and other countries.