Liferay Evolves as a Leading Portal Solution

Online, December 14, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Over years, Liferay has matured as an enterprise portal, content management, and collaborative solution. Around a decade back, Vignette, WebSphere were popular portal solution. Either these were high on ownership costs or were not able to deliver true portal capabilities.

It took a while for Liferay to establish its market amongst the existing big giants like IBM, Microsoft, Oracle or others. With release of v5.2 enterprise edition, open source advocates strongly promoted Liferay. Coming v6.0 onwards, people grew to accept it as one of the most preferred enterprise portal solution. Gartner reportedly placed Liferay in its Magic Quadrant for Portals.

Liferay has many scoring points which make it popular choice. Looking at proprietary enterprise portal solutions available in market; cost of owning and renewing license is high. They also have lock-up period to adhere. Organizations can make huge savings with Liferay as it is on open source platform. As a platform, it has evolved over time to just get better than before. New features and capabilities have been developed to make it more user-friendly and social while incorporating latest trends.

Offering a rich assortment of out-of-the-box portlets, lot of functionality can be built around the portal like collaboration, content management, user management, security and more. For delivering feature rich functionality with a typical portal, organizations have to bump up their budgets. With Liferay, they can be assured of getting more with lesser spending. While implementing, customizations can accommodate to tailor specific requirements of the business process which is unique for all organization. Instead of developing from scratch, consult a Liferay consulting expert and customize it as per your needs. Obviously customizing an existing feature is lot cheaper than developing it from scratch.

Organizations willingly evaluate and consider open source solutions these days. Looking at the popularity of Liferay, there has been a considerable rise in number of organizations turning to adopt open source platforms. You can know more at www.cignex.com