Evaluating Liferay

RE: Evaluating Liferay

2009-04-23T19:27:51Z

Documentum licensed customers have access to Documentum portlets. So there is no need of writing new portlets using Documentum APIs (unless the OFTB portlets are not sufficient). A little bit of work may be needed if you want to do single sign on like feature.

RE: Evaluating Liferay

2009-04-20T06:08:07Z

Thanks 'mo mo'for sharing your experience. I'm pretty sure you'll be able to integrate LR with Documentum - infact, I feel a little excited about this since I do have some Documentum experience as well - it'll be a fantastic combination. All the best

RE: Evaluating Liferay

2009-04-18T18:07:19Z

hye, I just want to share my current experience here. Currently i'm using Liferay for my client which is in banking sector. The reason why I use liferay is the capability of creating multiple site/organization in one environment, where admin can control all organization and community page.

My client wants every department in the organization have their own site with forum, blog, anouncement and rss, and Liferay have this functionality and it really easy for me to implement it.

For the next stage is, i'm going to integrate Liferay with document management system (Documentum). I think it is quite challenge for me, but it is possible. We just need to create some portlet and use the Docmentum API to retrieve data and document.

RE: Evaluating Liferay

2009-04-18T15:02:58Z

Thanks Victor and Akbar !!

I'm glad that I could get some suggestions. I'm sure I'd have some difficulty in the beginning with LR but I am a Java developer myself and we have a growing team of Java developers who I believe can be engaged for this purpose.

What I'm not sure is the time that it might take for us to evaluate LR to the extent that we feel comfortable. I'll definitely give LR a try and lets see how far we can take it.

Thanks,
TPM

RE: Evaluating Liferay

2009-04-18T09:02:50Z

Hi I agree with Victor on expertise required to implement liferay smoothly. I represent mPower, a liferay expert company based in Bangalore. We have experience few of our clients who start with Liferay and face challenges in advanced stages. I suggest a 3/4 days training will be just required to avoid TRail N error learning, as its live implemention. you can visit www.mpowerglobal.com to know more about us.

RE: Evaluating Liferay

2009-04-18T07:26:08Z

Hi Trishul
There is nothing wrong with your question. But it is just too generic to make any recommendations.

Liferay is a good product to be a single-window integration point for a company or a collaboration point across multiple organizations and users. But it is very hard to estimate an exact effort of achieving this in your case. You can definitely make a very robust system, without doubt. Eg., we have deployments that are used on munite-by-minute basis by employees of large organizations (.gov) and new-age collaboration systems across entire country (,gov and .com), also smaller real-time black box systems, such as RFID document and asset management. Each of those projects had and have own challenges, most of them are very specific to type of a project and user expectations.

From my point of view, if you go for Liferay:
* you must become an expert, or get someone with significant expertise from Liferay community, at least to initiate the project
* it is guaranteed that you will not be able to reach your goals with out-of-box Liferay only, java development will be required which will also involve modifications to Liferay core
* there is a long list of do's and dont's, which is hard to compile as they swap sides depending on requirements
* client-side performance could be a big challenge if SOE is IE6-based
* there is no need for a big software development team even for large projects, a couple of sw developers could be enough
* gradually build your own expertise, do not get hijacked by a third party.
* you can achieve a fairly fast delivery of systems and new features, some our projects required only 10 days between first engagement and go-live dates

Liferay forum is an excellent place to get friendly (and free) day-to-day advice, support and encouragement. And if you choose Liferay to be The Platform, you will always receive good recommendations and answers for all your specific questions.

RE: Evaluating Liferay

2009-04-17T05:52:03Z

Hello people,

Maybe I wasn''t clear with my requirements. I'm pretty new to Liferay and having heard good things about LR, I thought it'd be best to ask the community members.

Can anyone share their experience of implementing / working with Liferay. Please do tell me if I am asking this question in the wrong forum...

Thanks,
TPM

Evaluating Liferay

2009-04-16T10:24:19Z

Hi All,

I am a part of a start up company in India - and I am trying to find a suitable solution for a wide variety of needs.We already have a custom portal that runs on Oracle infrastructure. We also use an array of other software packages that cater to specific needs. Now, our primary requirement is to introduce a company wide intranet that can provide a one-stop solution to ECM, DMS and collaboration needs tegrated through SSO.

Being the person responsible for this implementation, I am trying to get an honest feedback from the community here for implementing Liferay in the given situation.

Thanks,
TPM