Liferay Launches Liferay Portal 6 Enterprise Edition at the Liferay West Coast Symposium

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Liferay, Inc., provider of the world’s fastest growing enterprise-class open source portal framework, today announced the launch of Liferay Portal 6 Enterprise Edition, a full featured portal platform that enables enterprises to collaborate, build communities, and increase revenues. Liferay Portal 6 Enterprise Edition (Liferay Portal 6EE) contains enhanced enterprise social collaboration functionality, a built-in Web Content Management system, rich developer tools, and powerful support features.

“Gartner put Liferay in its leader/visionary quadrant in 2010 for a reason”

"Gartner put Liferay in its leader/visionary quadrant in 2010 for a reason," said Paul Hinz, Liferay's Chief Marketing Officer. "Liferay 6EE meets the industry's demand for a complete web content management system, combined with social collaboration and portal functionality. With Liferay’s strong mission critical enterprise support, Liferay 6EE is the leading solution for any enterprise looking to build a website, a portal, a collaboration solution, or to replace their aging web portal."

As part of the launch for this highly anticipated product, Liferay 6EE’s debut will be broadcast live (www.liferay.com/live), today at 9 a.m. PT, when Liferay founder and Chief Software Architect, Brian Chan will showcase the new features from the stage of Liferay’s West Coast Symposium.

“We’ve been a Liferay partner since 2008 and use their platform to create effective portal experiences for our clients, some of which include Marvell, Qualcomm and Monster Energy,” said Curt Van Inwegen, Vice President of Client Services at LEVEL, an independent digital agency that delivers integrated marketing and product development for global brands. “We look forward to the 6EE offering and how it can positively impact the communities of the brands we serve.”

To further engage Liferay’s worldwide community and network, a number of special offers are now available, including a free 30-day trial of Liferay 6EE and a “First Year Free” offer made through the “Design with Liferay” program to select users who are currently using other enterprise portal products.

“With tens of thousands of enterprises facing ‘end of feature life’ for their current portal, enterprises should leverage the ‘Design with Liferay’ program and begin evaluating Liferay 6EE now,” said Liferay’s Hinz.

What’s New in Liferay 6EE:

Liferay Portal 6EE is an enterprise-grade, low cost, and easy to use solution for building web sites and applications. Combining portal, web content management and social collaboration into a single package, Liferay 6EE offers capabilities such as:

Web Content Management (WCM) – Liferay’s built-in WCM system makes web publishing, editing, building new pages, assigning workflows and developing templates extremely easy for both technical and non-technical users.

Powerful web-publishing with one-click page creation and dynamic templates and structures
User-defined workflow leveraging an extremely granular system of roles-based authorization
Dynamic content sharing and document management with Microsoft Office® integration
Localization into over 30 languages
Seamless integration with social collaboration features

Enterprise Social Collaboration – Social features are integrated into the community and organization-centric structure of the portal, allowing departments or other user-defined groups to collaborate globally and in real-time. Notable features include:

Enhanced, real-time activity tracking of user and group activity
Full suite of RSS-enabled and ratable Wikis, Blogs, and Forums
Familiar office tools including enterprise chat, a built-in mail client, personal and group calendars, and address books and contacts
Collaborative and team-driven content creation
OpenSocial support allowing Google Gadgets to run natively in Liferay
Full Social API framework with seamless integration with WCM

Design and Usability – Liferay 6EE offers significant usability enhancements for ease of administration as well as tools to help developers build dynamic UIs with the Liferay platform. Notable features include:

New UI metaframework, Alloy UI that provides a simple API for building web applications across all three levels of a browser: structure, style and behavior. It works with HTML5, CSS and Javascript.
Tasteful use of AJAX technology for a fast, interactive user experience
Simple and intuitive page and community navigation
Familiar desktop controls for easy end-user adoption

Extensibility and Integrations – Liferay is flexible, easy to extend, and easy to integrate with external applications and systems. It runs PHP, Ruby, Python, Grails and other lightweight scripting technologies within a robust Java framework, with wide standards and web services support. Notable features include:

Liferay Developer Studio, a best-of-breed set of Eclipse plugins that expedites and simplifies plug-in development
Built-in social API framework for creating customized social networks
Built-in scripting frameworks and flexible scripting support
Built-in personalization rules engine
A new plugin architecture that fosters the growth of a far-reaching ecosystem of plugins and add-ons for the Liferay platform

Analytics and Management - To help administrators optimize resources and monitor portal performance, Liferay Portal provides helpful dashboards, user activity tracking and management, and key performance statistics (hits/page, average time/hit, max time per request, and more). Notable features include:

Simple, clean administrative dashboards for portlet, portal and system performance monitoring
Enhanced scalability of the portal’s search engine via ClusterLink, allowing administrators to cluster a series of search engines without a SAN
Sharding capabilities that greatly improve space optimization and usage of the portal database
Liferay Enterprise Support Application (LESA), a new, easy to use enterprise-grade support interface for customers

For more information about Liferay Portal 6EE and the company’s special offers, please visit www.liferay.com/products.

About Liferay, Inc.

Liferay is the provider of leading enterprise open source portal and collaboration software products, used by companies worldwide, including Allianz, AutoZone, Benetton Group, Cisco Systems, Lufthansa Flight Training, The French Ministry of Defense, and the United Nations. The company offers professional services, technical support, custom development and professional training to ensure successful deployment in the most demanding IT environments.

Liferay, Liferay Portal, and the Liferay logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Liferay, Inc., in the United States and other countries.