Posts Tagged ‘liferay’

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 […]

Gartner has recently published the 2012 version of their Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals.  So far, I haven’t found the Gartner report on their reprint site and none of the vendors have provided links to it yet.  Here is the link to the report on Gartner’s site, but you’ll have to be a Gartner subscriber […]

Liferay announced some time ago that they were going to build Marketplace – an online application store for the Liferay.  They even posted a YouTube video previewing Marketplace back in May 2011. Liferay Marketplace has arrived officially.  You can access Marketplace at this address: http://www.liferay.com/marketplace Marketplace has many applications ready to download.  Some are free apps […]

Andrew Wright posted at story at ragan.com titled Are intranets a waste of time or valuable? Survey says … where he looks at data concerning the usage of an intranet vs perceived value. We have been called into many companies to help them improve their intranet because of a variety of reasons.  A lot of the time, […]

Since we work with several different portal products, I’m often asked about the performance of Liferay portal when it comes to scalability.  I think most people who ask this question are under the impression that the big players (IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Adobe, etc) do scale very well.  Indeed those vendors do spend a good amount […]

Liferay announced yesterday that Liferay Portal  6.1 Community Edition has been downloaded over 550,000 times since it was launched earlier this year.  Liferay says this is a record number for any of its products and is more than double that of version 6.0 in the first three months.  We reviewed some of the new features […]

The afternoon session of the Gartner conference started off with a collaboration by Gene Phifer and jim Murphy talking about Employee Portals.  Originally, most portals were aimed at employees.  More recently vendors and business have been turning to Customer portals.  But with the rise of social capabilities, the Employee Portal and Intranet are again a […]

Gene Phifer spoke about the trends in what Gartner calls the User Experience Platform (UXP).  The big change from last year appears to be a split in the emerging UXP market into Suite vendors and Lean vendors. Gartner sees many vendors, such as IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle expanding more and more into the Suite side […]

Before We Begin Integrating OBIEE and Portal has been tricky due the lack of publicly available OBIEE documentation on the HtmlViewService, therefore, I wanted to write this post to describe the implementation of an OBIEE Chart portlet and provide a sample implementation.   I will cover some of the lessons learned and provide solutions to issues […]

Integrating to any large system can pose a number of challenges.  Over time, we’ve had to integrate to SAP, Siebel, Peoplesoft, and a variety of other systems.  One thing we’ve learned is that it’s always possible but also brings with it a number of challenges.  Today I wanted to focus on integration to Peoplesoft.   Part […]