Operations

At the Liferay 2012 North America Conference Ed Chung, VP of Product Management, gave us an overview of what Liferay plans are for the next version of Liferay Portal, Social Office, and Sync. Below is the planned release schedule for 6.2.  Of course the timeline can change, but its the best guess at this point. Liferay […]

Since Apps are the “next big thing” for SharePoint, from an opportunity perspective, expect to see a lot of hullaballoo about how you should create apps because they’re going to be the greatest thing to happen to SharePoint since Shared Service Applications replaced the Shared Services Provider.  However, not all apps are created equal, and […]

Until recently, I was blissfully unaware of an issue that exists when deploying SharePoint 2013 apps in a likely production environment.  That issue is the use of host headers while serving a SharePoint app.  Since I don’t know of any production environment that doesn’t use a host header, this could be quite the issue and […]

Typically, there are three ways to integrate external applications into a portal.  Below, I show these methods and describe how Liferay implements each option. Presentation Level iFrame – an iFrame portlet is included out of the box. Requires SSO to be in place. Authentication information can be supplied to the portlet, so the administrator would […]

Josh Asbury presented Liferay’s mobile capabilities this afternoon.  Josh is Director of Corporate Sales for Liferay. If you done any work on the mobile front, you know there are basically three approaches to mobile-enable your websites: Responsive Design – works on most devices and lower implementation costs, but can’t take advantage of the device features […]

SSO within Liferay can be implemented via SAML, OAuth, CAS or OpenID.  Liferay has supported CAS and OpenID for a couple of versions.  SAML is new in 6.1 and OAuth is in the development stage. Liferay Portal supports SAML 2.0 through a plug-in.  The plug-in is available for EE version and is not available in […]

Earlier this year, Liferay announced their Markeplace, where you could go to get applications for Liferay and also deliver applications for others. Application stores are becoming commonplace with Apple, Google, Blackberry all having app stores for their devices. IBM has long had their portlet catalog where developers could upload applications for WebSphere Portal. Liferay understands […]

I’m at the 2012 Liferay Symposium in San Francisco. Liferay is the company name and the name of its open source portal. Gartner rates Liferay as one of the leaders in the horizontal portal market and is the only open source product rated as a leader. Bryan Cheung. Liferay CEO presented the opening session this […]

Let’s get back to my colleague, Matt Morse, and his recent presentation on SharePoint 2013. In my previous post, I summarized Matt’s answer to the first question he’s often asked, and discussed Microsoft’s investment areas in the new release – and the reasoning behind those investments. You probably recall that the public preview of the […]

The Wall Street Journal has an article posted an article on a topic we’ve been addressing here on the Financial Services blog around social media and customer service. Frustrated by the 40 minutes she spent on hold with Citibank customer service, Stacy Small tweeted her displeasure. To her surprise, a Citibank agent tweeted right back. […]

Next week Perficient Financial Services will be heading to BAI Retail Delivery in Washington D.C., along with more than 1,800 attendees and 200 exhibitors to exchange information on banking strategies and technology trends transforming the retail banking industry.  If you’re in town for the conference, we’d love to have you stop by to talk tech with the […]

During a recent presentation, my colleague Matt Morse shared his thoughts around SharePoint 2013. Matt, a SharePoint practice director, responded to three questions about the new release that he’s frequently asked: Where is Microsoft going with SharePoint 2013? What do we know about SharePoint 2013? What’s new in SharePoint 2013? In this post, I’ll cover the first […]