Cisco has been a long-time major player in unified communications in the workplace. Several years ago Cisco started making noise in the social collaboration marketplace. Cisco had the bright idea to marry their strong telecommunications and conferencing capabilities with enterprise social networking and introduced Cisco Quad. Quad promised to bring web conferencing, instant messaging, telephony, activity […]
Posts Tagged ‘liferay’
Liferay Adds E-Commerce Functionality to Marketplace
Over on our Portals blog, Michael Porter shared an announcement from Liferay. They have extended the value of their open source portal with e-commerce functionality for built-in transaction and payments processing. Liferay Marketplace is the worldwide distribution channel for Liferay-compatible apps designed to provide greater access to enterprise applications for Liferay users. Now with e-commerce features, […]
Liferay Releases SDK to Speed Up Custom Mobile App Development
This just in, Liferay has a new SDK for custom mobile apps. They will release it to the public on April 2nd. Here’s the press release. Liferay Releases SDK to Speed Up Custom Mobile App Development New developer toolkit helps Liferay’s customers develop and manage sophisticated mobile apps LOS ANGELES – (April 1, 2014) – Liferay, […]
Liferay Marketplace Adds eCommerce
Liferay today announced that the Marketplace they launched in 2012 has new ecommerce features. By this they mean that you can buy and sell apps. The store lets you: Sellers Select a license term with perpetual or non-perpetual Offer support services Define your pricing structure which can include bundles and discounts Price the app based […]
Liferay 6.2 Features Announced
About one year ago I blogged about what Liferay was planning for it’s next portal version 6.2. At the Liferay Symposium in October, Liferay announced that 6.2 would be available later this year. I missed the symposium this year, but Brian Ruby provided the following info on CMSWire. Liferay has implemented Bootstrap for its theme, […]
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals 2013
On September 12, 2013 Gartner released their latest Magic Quadrant report for horizontal portals. Overall, the Magic Quadrant hasn’t changed much from last year with the vendors staying in the same quadrant as they were in 2012 (yawn…). You can see my blog post from 2012: Gartner Magic Quadrant: Horizontal Portals 2012. In the leader quadrant, […]
Partnering with social business and portal leader, Liferay
Organizations are beginning to realize the true cost of losses in productivity and efficiency due to gaps in collaboration and communication. As a result, portals, collaboration tools and social business enablers are taking center stage in enterprise technology. Intranets are connecting employees, giving them easy access to documents and information, and enabling them to collaborate […]
Social Intranet Technologies, Part 3
In the past two posts (Part 1 & Part 2), I list many of the key technologies that make up a social intranet. In this post, I’m going to talk about how you might combine those different systems into an overall social intranet platform for your company. In the next post in this series, I’ll […]
Liferay Social Office 2.0 Enterprise Edition Released
Liferay recently released the enterprise edition of Liferay Social Office 2.0. The community edition came out last August. Social Office is a full social platform that includes blogs, wikis, activity streams, profiles, tasks, sites, instant messaging and document collaboration. The enterprise edition is the same as the community edition, but has been hardened for enterprise […]
What can we expect in Liferay 6.2?
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 […]
Integrating Liferay with External Applications
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 […]
Multi-Channel Delivery in Liferay
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 […]