Permeance Becomes First Liferay Platinum Partner in Australia

Rapid Growth for Liferay Portal in Education, Finance, Government, and Healthcare Markets

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Liferay, Inc., provider of the market’s fastest growing open source portal and web content management product, today announced that Permeance Technologies (Permeance) has become the first Liferay Platinum Partner in Australia. Permeance has achieved this in less than two years as a Liferay partner after successfully delivering solutions to the education, finance, government, and healthcare sectors.

“Our commitment and contributions to open source software has confirmed our belief of just how strong the demand for supported enterprise level open source software has become. This is why we are so excited about becoming a Liferay Platinum Service partner”

As Liferay’s first Platinum partner in Australia, Permeance brings its clients a high degree of technical proficiency, a deep understanding of open source software, renowned professionalism, and regional knowledge. Their clients, including Nissan, Department of Education Western Australia, and one of Australia’s tier one financial institutions, span across several industries and include large state and federal government installations across Australia. Permeance works with finance companies, government agencies, healthcare providers, and registered training organization (RTO) institutes with specialist skills and deep domain knowledge in the education sector.

“Our commitment and contributions to open source software has confirmed our belief of just how strong the demand for supported enterprise level open source software has become. This is why we are so excited about becoming a Liferay Platinum Service partner,” said Shayne Tanner, General Manager at Permeance. “With Liferay as our partner, we believe that our customers are working with the most dynamic product in the enterprise portal space. End-users are moving away from the traditional large portal vendors toward Liferay. Permeance understands its client needs and ensures these are met with end-to-end service from sales to delivery, training, and support.”

“Partners such as Permeance have been instrumental to the enormous growth of the Liferay ecosystem,” said Bryan Cheung, co-founder and CEO of Liferay. “Liferay doubled revenue in 2010 with significant new customers added, thanks in part to the outstanding efforts of and our relationship with Permeance. As a Platinum partner, Permeance will be able to provide significant support to customers and we welcome them to this highest level of partnership.”

Liferay Platinum partners have the highest level of commitment, which includes having the most trained and certified Liferay developers on staff. For more about Liferay Portal and its partners, visit www.liferay.com/partners. Additional information about Permeance can be found at http://www.permeance.com.au/.

About Permeance

Permeance Technologies is a software consultancy recognized nationally (Australia) for its innovative end-to-end deliveries to commercial and major government agencies. Our bent is collaborative learning spaces for organizations and their communities. Our expertise extends from application evaluation, enterprise architecture, application configuration and support, software development through to our certified Liferay training team. Our core strength is in understanding that support is the beginning of any valued relationship. Our Australian-based Level One support team excels at meeting client needs and works closely with Liferay developers.

About Liferay, Inc.

Liferay, Inc. is the leading provider of enterprise open source portal and collaboration software products, recognized by Gartner in the Magic Quadrant and used by Fortune 500 companies worldwide, including Allianz, AutoZone, Benetton Group, Cisco Systems, Lufthansa Flight Training, The French Ministry of Defense, and the United Nations. Liferay, Inc. offers professional services, technical support, custom development, and professional training to ensure successful deployment in the most demanding IT environments.

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