Top 10 Reasons To Opt For Liferay

Top 10 Reasons To Opt For Liferay

Businesses always look for solutions which help them with enterprise portal development, content management development and collaboration solutions. One of the dependable solutions is liferay. Liferay is a java-based portal and comes with features that are needed for the development of portals and websites. Today more number of businesses are opting for Liferay web development due to its remarkable enterprise level benefits.

A few of the reasons which support your decision to go for Liferay are:

  • Compared to its competitors, Liferay has the lowest Total Cost of Ownership with its licensing costs. Within few minutes you can download it and start getting it running. The savings does not end here. You will be able to further save on development costs, training costs, support costs, and operational costs.

  • It comes with a number of off the shelf functionality like collaboration, content management, core portal, mobile, social, security and much more.

  • When it comes to portal development you will need extensions and /or additions which can help you deliver a required functionality. When you go for Liferay you will be able to achieve more just within your budget.

  • Liferay has the feature of product innovation and is considered as the leader in introducing new capabilities whether it be friendly URLs, AJAX or social or mobile.

  • Improved business agility - Liferay is quite lightweight, which helps to get it running and configured very quickly. Moreover, it is easy to use and manage, which helps the IT and business users to develop custom functionality, configure or tailor it to meet business objectives.

  • Good-to-use open source product - You will be able to enjoy different support options which also includes round-the-clock platinum support with 1 hour response time. This includes access to all the service packs, notification of security alerts, hot fixes, web and phone based support.

  • The open source nature and open architecture of Liferay help to avoid lock-in to a single vendor. Liferay adheres to different specifications which includes JSR-286 (Java Portlet Specification v2.0), JSR-170 (Java Content Repository Specification), JSR-168 (Java Portlet Specification v1.0), WSRP (Web Services for Remote Portlets), WSRP 2.0, JSR-127 (JavaServer Faces), SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language for Federated SSO), WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning), and much more.

  • The hook and extension plugin of Liferay helps to turn the product behavior to your needs without rewriting and upgrading. In case of other vendors if the OOTB feature meets your needs by 80%, then getting the remaining portion can be expensive and difficult. So either you will have to live with it or recreate the functionality from the scratch.

  • Liferay offers you complete choice of databases, servers and operating systems to run on which allows you to use your infrastructure and skills.

  • Through the years Liferay community has grown big by adding 1300 members in a month in the year 2011. Moreover, the community members are very much active and make contributions to wiki posts, forums, code contributions, blogs, etc. The community greatly contributes to product information and functionality.

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