Liferay Press Releases
Employers Direct Insurance Company Creates
Higher Customer Satisfaction, Lower Costs with Liferay Portal
Open Source Solution Drives Multiple Websites and Simplifies Content Management
Duties for California's Workers' Compensation Specialist
Higher Customer Satisfaction, Lower Costs with Liferay Portal
Open Source Solution Drives Multiple Websites and Simplifies Content Management
Duties for California's Workers' Compensation Specialist
AGOURA HILLS, CA – (November 1, 2006) – Liferay, a leading provider of enterprise-class open source software products, today announced that its Liferay Portal 4.1.1 technology is powering the corporate website for Employers Direct Insurance Company, California's only specialty direct writer of workers' compensation insurance. The site leverages Liferay Portal's Web publishing, document management, authentication and user management capabilities to directly impact customer experience, lower insurance premiums, and improve Employers Direct's bottom line.
Employers Direct eliminates costs from its sales channel by selling insurance directly to California business and industry with no independent agent or broker. This streamlined business model, in conjunction with customized loss control tools and training and fraud prevention techniques, helps lower the cost of workers' comp insurance for its policyholder customers.
Because cost and efficiency are critical to its business, Employers Direct chose to leverage the Internet to create value for its customers and to lower its administrative overhead. The company invites prospects to use the Web to determine if they qualify. In order to benefit from such an IT investment without disrupting its business model, however, Employers Direct recognized that the new site would have to be robust, easy-to-maintain, and developed with minimal cost.
Employers Direct found exactly what its solution in Liferay. Liferay's open source license allowed Employers Direct to enjoy an immediate return on investment, faster development cycles, and the freedom to customize the product. An elegant, easy-to-use interface and powerful feature set ensured that maintenance costs would not eclipse the savings gained from the no-cost license.
According to Greg Schueman, Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Employers Direct, Liferay Portal was the clear choice for its new technology platform. "We currently have 75 pages, 160 articles, and four custom portlets on our core website, EmployersDirect.com. In the past, this would have required huge amounts of work from programmers to establish and maintain. Liferay gave us almost all of the functionality we needed out of the box. Its web publishing system is simple enough that non-programmers can handle most of the work, which allows us to achieve our goal of having original content creators do as much ongoing content maintenance as possible."
Employers Direct was so pleased with the new platform that its customer-focused Internet-based services are just the beginning. The insurance provider is currently enhancing its Policyholder Extranet with a more extensive version of its information center, PCIC (Policyholder Claims and Information Center), that will allow companies to interact with Employers Direct and to view policy and claims-related information online. In addition, they will also be able to report a claim and connect to medical provider network (MPN) resources. The password-protected Extranet will leverage Liferay's authentication and user management features to minimize routine phone calls between claims examiners and policyholders to simplify the entire claims reporting process.
"Liferay was extensively involved in the creation of the initial portal infrastructure and will continue to work closely with Employers Direct to build further functionality to address its business needs," said Heather Swaim, Director of Operations for Liferay. "As Employers Direct's web presence grows, the company will be able to offer many online services to enhance customer satisfaction while driving unnecessary administrative costs from the system."
"Liferay Portal has become deeply embedded in our business," stated Schueman. "Employers Direct made a strategic choice to bring much of its customer service and interaction on the Internet, which made Liferay Portal a critical element for us. We feel that we have made the right choice due to Liferay Portal's ease of use and its ability to support virtually any feature or technology that we wish to deploy."
For a full description of Liferay Portal or for an online demonstration of Liferay Portal's capabilities, visit www.liferay.com. To view Employers Direct's site, visit www.employersdirect.com.
Employers Direct eliminates costs from its sales channel by selling insurance directly to California business and industry with no independent agent or broker. This streamlined business model, in conjunction with customized loss control tools and training and fraud prevention techniques, helps lower the cost of workers' comp insurance for its policyholder customers.
Because cost and efficiency are critical to its business, Employers Direct chose to leverage the Internet to create value for its customers and to lower its administrative overhead. The company invites prospects to use the Web to determine if they qualify. In order to benefit from such an IT investment without disrupting its business model, however, Employers Direct recognized that the new site would have to be robust, easy-to-maintain, and developed with minimal cost.
Employers Direct found exactly what its solution in Liferay. Liferay's open source license allowed Employers Direct to enjoy an immediate return on investment, faster development cycles, and the freedom to customize the product. An elegant, easy-to-use interface and powerful feature set ensured that maintenance costs would not eclipse the savings gained from the no-cost license.
According to Greg Schueman, Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Employers Direct, Liferay Portal was the clear choice for its new technology platform. "We currently have 75 pages, 160 articles, and four custom portlets on our core website, EmployersDirect.com. In the past, this would have required huge amounts of work from programmers to establish and maintain. Liferay gave us almost all of the functionality we needed out of the box. Its web publishing system is simple enough that non-programmers can handle most of the work, which allows us to achieve our goal of having original content creators do as much ongoing content maintenance as possible."
Employers Direct was so pleased with the new platform that its customer-focused Internet-based services are just the beginning. The insurance provider is currently enhancing its Policyholder Extranet with a more extensive version of its information center, PCIC (Policyholder Claims and Information Center), that will allow companies to interact with Employers Direct and to view policy and claims-related information online. In addition, they will also be able to report a claim and connect to medical provider network (MPN) resources. The password-protected Extranet will leverage Liferay's authentication and user management features to minimize routine phone calls between claims examiners and policyholders to simplify the entire claims reporting process.
"Liferay was extensively involved in the creation of the initial portal infrastructure and will continue to work closely with Employers Direct to build further functionality to address its business needs," said Heather Swaim, Director of Operations for Liferay. "As Employers Direct's web presence grows, the company will be able to offer many online services to enhance customer satisfaction while driving unnecessary administrative costs from the system."
"Liferay Portal has become deeply embedded in our business," stated Schueman. "Employers Direct made a strategic choice to bring much of its customer service and interaction on the Internet, which made Liferay Portal a critical element for us. We feel that we have made the right choice due to Liferay Portal's ease of use and its ability to support virtually any feature or technology that we wish to deploy."
For a full description of Liferay Portal or for an online demonstration of Liferay Portal's capabilities, visit www.liferay.com. To view Employers Direct's site, visit www.employersdirect.com.
About LIFERAY:
Liferay Portal is the world's leading enterprise open source portal framework with Fortune 500 clients in the U.S. and Europe. Liferay Professional Services offers technical support, custom development and professional training to ensure successful deployment of its flagship product in the most demanding IT environments. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles. For more information, visit www.liferay.com.
About EMPLOYERS DIRECT INSURANCE COMPANY:
Employers Direct Insurance Company is California's only specialty direct writer of workers' compensation insurance. Founded in 2002, Employers Direct has been widely accepted by business owners throughout California as a result of providing highly competitive rates, claims services designed to fight fraud and abuse, and loss prevention services that assist employers to create safe work environments. As a newer company, Employers Direct takes advantage of the latest technology to provide its customers with 24/7 access to all policy and claims information via a secure Internet portal. Niche industries include hotels, restaurants, golf and country clubs, new car dealers, food processors, manufacturing companies, specialty supermarket chains, and retailers. At the end of 2005, Employers Direct Insurance Company had more than $150 million in written workers' compensation premiums. Online at www.employersdirect.com.
Liferay Teams With Pramati To
Multiply Product Capability and Value
Integrated App Server and Portal Smoothes Path to SOA
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Liferay, provider of the leading enterprise-class open source portal platform, and Pramati Technologies, a leading vendor of J2EE application servers and solutions, today announced a non-exclusive partnership to help customers leverage the benefits of Liferay's SOA-enabled enterprise portal framework. Under the agreement, Liferay Portal and Pramati Server will become available in a bundled version as a download on both companies' Web sites and ship with a 30-day developer license.
"Bundling Liferay Portal with Pramati's robust application server software allows our customers to multiply the value and capability of their IT initiatives by leveraging Liferay's excellent user management, CMS, authentication and presentation layer capabilities," said Jay Pullur, Founder and CEO, Pramati Technologies.
"This package is timely indeed as the coming version 4.2 of Liferay Portal provides standard integration with ServiceMix ESB and the jBPM workflow engine," said Brian Chan, founder and chief software architect of Liferay. "These technologies allow enterprises to quickly plug in applications such as business intelligence, enterprise content management, CRM, and eCommerce on top of Pramati, which is designed to deliver complex integrated applications with high availability and scalability."
Pramati expects the bundle to help its customers effortlessly build SOA capabilities into their IT infrastructure. Liferay Portal will also provide a unified user experience and a framework for extending that experience to all parts of the enterprise. The effortless nature of the bundle will allow companies to focus on developing core application functionality specific to the business.
Liferay in turn through this relationship will leverage customer-driven innovation, demonstrate the viability of mixed proprietary and open source environments, and deliver on its promise to remain vendor-neutral with support for all major application servers.
"There is no reason why an enterprise should spend precious technical and financial resources on the details of integrating Pramati with Liferay, ESB and workflow, or on building the services provided by our portal framework," Chan said. "We want our customers to focus their efforts on building functionality that will enhance and sustain the core competitive advantages of their business."
Pullur said, "Analysts predict 80% of IT spending will be on SOA initiatives within two years. This only makes sense because the benefit of a well-executed SOA, an IT infrastructure that can respond quickly to rapidly changing business realities, is enormous. The Pramati / Liferay bundle will not only ensure that our customers won't be stalled in implementing an SOA; it will give them a significant lead on competitors with extremely low costs of ownership."
About Liferay
Liferay Portal is the world's leading enterprise open source portal framework with Fortune 500 clients in the U.S. and Europe. Liferay Professional Services offers technical support, custom development and professional training to ensure successful deployment of its flagship product in the most demanding IT environments. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles. For more information, please visit www.Liferay.com.
About Pramati
Pramati Technologies is a leading J2EE product and services vendor. The award-winning Pramati Server is fast, robust, easy to manage and OEM licensed by ISVs. Pramati Software Services offers outsourced/off-shore product development, aftermarket services and consulting. By partnering with Pramati, our numerous satisfied customers, have enjoyed faster time to market, lower engineering expenses, and superior product performance. For more information, visit www.pramati.com.
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"Established projects like Liferay can boast highly dynamic communities, while Apache Jetspeed and Red Hat JBoss Portal have yet to gain significant developer traction"
Open source portal provider again demonstrates completeness of vision and ability to execute
LOS ANGELES – September 22, 2015 – Liferay, Inc., which makes open source portal software, today announced that Gartner has named the company a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals.* Liferay is a Leader for the sixth consecutive year and positioned second furthest in completeness of vision and ability to execute in the Leaders quadrant.
Tweet this: @Gartner names #Liferay a Leader in the Horizontal Portals MQ now for six years in a row. #gartnermq
Gartner, a leading IT research firm, positioned the evaluated vendors in the portal market based on independent research and analysis. The Magic Quadrant gives enterprises a way to assess how well technology providers are executing their stated visions and how well they are performing against Gartner's market view. The 2015 report is available via Liferay: www.liferay.com/gartner-mq.
According to Gartner, the portal market is experiencing a resurgence: "The past five years has witnessed a massive transformation of the market for horizontal portals. The nexus of mobile, social, cloud and information has at once heightened the demand for this ‘personalized point of access ...' and engendered alternative ways to accomplish it."
"Today's companies have an opportunity to connect with their customers, employees and partners at a highly individual level," said Ed Chung, VP of Global Product Management for Liferay. "We've built the Liferay platform to make it easy to engage users with personalized, consistent experiences on the devices of their choosing. We believe Gartner's continued recognition affirms that Liferay technology helps companies make the most of this opportunity."
Liferay has continued to build out its flagship product, Liferay Portal, to deliver to enterprises a scalable, reliable platform designed for creating modern websites and mobile apps for continuity in customer experiences.
Liferay will be showcasing its award-winning portal technologies at the annual Liferay Symposium North America, held November 16 to 17 in Chicago. Attendees representing businesses in several verticals will find strategies for increasing enterprise productivity, mobility, and audience engagement from over 60 available business sessions, case studies, and technical workshops. Liferay 7 will also be available for hands-on demonstrations in advance of its 2016 public launch.
To download the Gartner MQ for Horizontal Portals, visit www.liferay.com/gartner-mq.
Learn more about Liferay at www.liferay.com.
*Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals" by Jim Murphy, Gene Phifer, Gavin Tay, Magnus Revang, 15 September 2015.
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About Liferay
Liferay makes software that helps companies create digital experiences on web, mobile, and connected devices. Our platform is open source, which makes it more reliable, innovative and secure. We try to leave a positive mark on the world through business and technology. Companies such as Allianz, Carrefour, Cisco Systems, Danone, Fujitsu, Lufthansa Flight Training, Siemens, Société Générale, Toyota and the United Nations use Liferay. Visit us at www.liferay.com.
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Se estima que el portal recibirá más de un millón de visitantes en 2015
- 'Barcelonaesmuchomas.es' cuenta con una extraordinaria base de contenidos e imágenes, integración con redes sociales, diseño responsivo y utilidades como agenda y geolocalización
- El proyecto se ha abordado con Liferay Portal Enterprise Subscription, la plataforma de portales web corporativos de código abierto más utilizada del mundo
Madrid, 10 de Julio de 2015.- La Diputación de Barcelona, la institución pública catalana que ofrece servicios a los ciudadanos y apoyo a ayuntamientos de más de 300 municipios de la provincia de Barcelona, ha anunciado la culminación de un proyecto de modernización de su portal turístico en Internet Barcelona es mucho más con tecnología de software libre. La nueva web, desarrollada con la plataforma Liferay Portal Enterprise Suscription, destaca por la riqueza de contenidos -gracias a la integración con la base de datos Infotur, de la Agencia Catalana de Turismo-, por su diseño responsivo, soporte para redes sociales, disponibilidad en cuatro lenguas –catalán, castellano, inglés y francés- y utilidades como agenda o geolocalización.
El nuevo portal de "Barcelona es mucho más" es una web atractiva que tiene como objetivo estimular a los turistas y visitantes las ganas de descubrir el territorio. Permite al visitante navegar por las 3 marcas de la provincia de Barcelona y acceder a secciones como Ideas de viaje, rutas e itinerarios y ofrece utilidades añadidas como un avanzado planificador de escapadas sobre el mapa de la provincia.
"Utilizando Liferay hemos logrado desarrollar un portal de gran calidad, dando un salto cualitativo para la promoción de la marca turística de Barcelona. Lo más destacado es, a nivel de contenidos, la disponibilidad de un repositorio extraordinario conformado por más de 20.000 datos (en cuatro idiomas) y 6.000 imágenes de Barcelona, y a nivel de navegación, la implementación de un diseño responsivo que nos permite mejorar sensiblemente la experiencia de usuario", ha destacado Jorge Martínez de Morentin, jefe de la Oficina Técnica de Internet de la Diputación de Barcelona.
Uno de los retos más destacados del proyecto ha sido la integración con la base de Infotur de la Agència Catalana de Turisme, un repositorio de datos turísticos con más de 50 tipos de contenido. Para realizar la integración hubo que habilitar otra plataforma en la propia Diputación, implementando mejoras en el rendimiento, y desarrollando un sistema de actualización diaria y un portlet en Liferay para sincronizar toda la información. "Con esta integración hemos logrado una gran coherencia de recursos, que antes estaban multiplicados, y que la flexibilidad y adaptabilidad de una plataforma como Liferay Portal nos ha permitido culminar con éxito. Por otra parte, compartir esta base de datos y mantener sus contenidos conjuntamente nos ha facultado sin duda para ofrecer un mejor servicio a turistas y ciudadanos, así como a los propios municipios en su promoción nacional e internacional".
La agenda es otra de las piezas clave del nuevo portal, además de la geolocalización de todos los recursos, la inclusión de contenidos de las redes sociales de "Barcelona es mucho más" (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram y Pinterest) y los materiales de viaje.
La apuesta corporativa por Liferay
La Diputación de Barcelona ya culminó hace 5 años un ambicioso proyecto de renovación de su portal en Internet (www.diba.cat) con la tecnología Liferay Portal para agilizar la gestión y el acceso a sus más de 50.000 páginas Web. Actualmente, Liferay es el gestor de portales/contenidos con el que ya funcionan otros destacados portales corporativos como la Biblioteca Virtual (red de bibliotecas municipales de la provincia), Parques Naturales y la web y la intranet corporativas de la Diputación de Barcelona.
Por tanto, a la hora de emprender este nuevo proyecto, el portal de la Diputación gozaba ya de una dilatada experiencia con la plataforma y con las garantías que Liferay Portal Enterprise Subscription ofrece, uno de los factores clave en la decisión de continuar con esta estrategia. "La confianza en el producto y la experiencia del equipo de desarrollo interno han motivado la decisión y han hecho posible también el desarrollo de todo el portal en un tiempo muy ajustado", comenta el portavoz de la Diputación.
"Nuestra apuesta por Liferay es contundente y, en la actualidad, son más de 200 personas dentro de la Diputación las que tenemos dedicadas a editar contenidos. Tenemos asimismo una comunidad virtual de prácticas, foros y wikis, donde intercambiamos internamente normas de estilo, edición o compartimos buenas prácticas acerca de la plataforma Liferay", destaca Martínez de Morentin.
Por su parte, en palabras de Carolina Moreno, directora general de Liferay para España y Portugal "La plataforma web de la Diputación de Barcelona es, en conjunto, un claro ejemplo de integración, usabilidad y escalabilidad. Nos sentimos orgullosos de que hayan vuelto a confiar en nuestro producto para emprender la modernización de su marca turística en la web y creemos que el resultado ha sido un portal moderno, que ofrece al turista avanzadas prestaciones y funcionalidades".
En España utilizan ya la tecnología de Liferay empresas como ADIF, Alcampo o RACE; organismos como la Comunidad de Madrid, el Principado de Asturias y el CAST, o el Gobierno de Cantabria; ONGs como Amnistía Internacional y Cruz Roja; y universidades como la Autónoma de Barcelona o la Universidad del País Vasco, entre muchas otras.
Acerca de Liferay, Inc.
Liferay, Inc. es el proveedor líder de software empresarial open source de portales y colaborativo. Da servicio a las principales compañías del Fortune 500 en todo el mundo, incluyendo Allianz, Carrefour, Cisco Systems, Danone, Lufthansa Flight Training, Rolex, Siemens, Société Générale, Toyota y Naciones Unidas. Liferay ofrece suscripciones empresariales que proporcionan acceso a parches urgentes, actualizaciones de software, soporte 24/7, y funcionalidades exclusivas para los suscriptores. Liferay ofrece también servicios profesionales y formación para asegurar a sus clientes la mejor puesta en producción.
Liferay, Liferay Portal y el logo de Liferay son marcas registradas de Liferay, Inc., en los Estados Unidos y otros países.
Para más información, visite: www.liferay.com
La consultora, que se incorpora a la red de socios de Liferay como Silver Service Partner, ayudará a las empresas españolas en la adopción de Liferay Portal para entornos empresariales.
Madrid, 7 de Julio de 2015.- Liferay, Inc., proveedor líder mundial de software empresarial Open Source de portales y colaboración, ha anunciado hoy la firma de un acuerdo con la consultora tecnológica ATOS, en línea con su estrategia de reforzar su canal especializado en nuestro país. En función del acuerdo, ATOS trabajará para ofrecer a las empresas españolas todas las garantías que ofrece Liferay Enterprise Subscription en el diseño e implementación de portales web para entornos empresariales.
Liferay Portal es la plataforma Open Source más utilizada en el mundo para la generación de portales web corporativos. Sus funcionalidades permiten atender las nuevas necesidades de los usuarios y consumidores, con la creación de modernos portales web, intranets y entornos colaborativos. Ofrece además experiencias más relevantes, personalizadas y atractivas de la mano de aplicaciones como Audience Targeting o de sus avanzadas prestaciones para diseñar una adecuada estrategia móvil. En España utilizan ya esta tecnología entidades como ADIF, Alcampo o RACE; organismos públicos como la Comunidad de Madrid o el Gobierno de Cantabria; ONG's como Cruz Roja o Amnistía Internacional; y universidades como la Autónoma de Barcelona o la Universidad del País Vasco, entre muchas otras.
El acuerdo firmado entre ambas compañías potenciará la penetración de la tecnología Liferay en España, aprovechando la infraestructura de ATOS, que cuenta con más de 6.000 empleados en nuestro país. La consultora, que se incorpora a la red de partners de Liferay como Silver Service Partner, es especialista en realizar proyectos llave en mano, aportando a sus clientes un amplio portfolio de soluciones y servicios.
"La creciente demanda de las empresas para atraer y fidelizar a sus audiencias ha impulsado a ATOS a buscar soluciones líderes como la que ofrece Liferay, y ahora iniciamos nuestra andadura conjunta en España" señala Alicia Lancho, Directora de Alianzas de ATOS. "Aprovecharemos el enfoque único de Liferay Portal Enterprise Subscription a la hora de construir experiencias web de alto nivel para potenciar las relaciones entre las empresas y sus clientes y empleados".
"Combinando su probada experiencia en el diseño de soluciones llave en mano con sus múltiples recursos técnicos, Atos puede ofrecer soluciones de calidad basadas en la tecnología Liferay Portal, a través de la suscripción empresarial del producto, y con todas las garantías que el fabricante ofrece para entornos empresariales.", afirma por su parte Carolina Moreno, directora general de Liferay Iberia. "Esperamos reforzar nuestra alianza con ellos a medida que seguimos expandiendo nuestro negocio en España".
El Programa Internacional de Partners de Liferay está diseñado para crear relaciones mutuamente beneficiosas que aumentan el éxito general y la capacidad del ecosistema de Liferay y es un programa que se caracteriza por su flexibilidad y por favorecer la diferenciación de cada partner en el mercado.
Acerca de ATOS
Atos SE (Societas Europaea) es un líder en servicios digitales con una facturación anual proforma de 10.000 millones de euros en 2013 y 86.000 empleados en 66 países. Proporciona a su cartera global de clientes servicios TI de Consultoría e Integración de Sistemas, Operaciones Gestionadas y BPO, operaciones Cloud, soluciones Big Data y Seguridad, así como servicios transaccionales a través de Worldline, líder europeo y operador global de servicios de medios de pago. Gracias a su profunda experiencia en tecnología y conocimiento de los diferentes sectores, trabaja con clientes presentes en diversos sectores de negocio: Defensa, Servicios Financieros, Salud, Manufacturing, Media y Utilities, Sector Público, Retail, Telecomunicaciones y Transporte. Atos está especializada en tecnología aplicada al negocio que impulsa el progreso y ayuda a las organizaciones a crear su firma del futuro. Atos es Partner Mundial de Tecnologías de la Información para los Juegos Olímpicos y Paralímpicos, y cotiza en el mercado NYSE Euronext de París. Ejerce sus actividades bajo las marcas Atos, Atos Consulting, Atos Worldgrid, Bull, Canopy y Worldline.
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Acerca de Liferay, Inc.
Liferay, Inc. es el proveedor líder de software empresarial open source de portales y colaborativo. Da servicio a las principales compañías del Fortune 500 en todo el mundo, incluyendo Allianz, Carrefour, Cisco Systems, Danone, Lufthansa Flight Training, Rolex, Siemens, Société Générale, Toyota y Naciones Unidas. Liferay ofrece suscripciones empresariales que proporcionan acceso a parches urgentes, actualizaciones de software, soporte 24/7, y funcionalidades exclusivas para los suscriptores. Liferay ofrece también servicios profesionales y formación para asegurar a sus clientes la mejor puesta en producción.
Liferay, Liferay Portal y el logo de Liferay son marcas registradas de Liferay, Inc., en los Estados Unidos y otros países.
Para más información, visite: www.liferay.com.
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Open source leaders bring enterprise-ready combination for reliable, scalable architecture
BOSTON - RED HAT SUMMIT 2015, June 23, 2015 - Liferay, Inc., Maker of the Enterprise, Open source Liferay Portal , today Announced A Collaboration with Red Hat to deliver to Enterprises an integrated, Comprehensive and Open source Portal Solution That Brings Together the performance and agility of Liferay Portal and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP). This collaboration includes joint go-to-market initiatives and sales efforts around Liferay and Red Hat JBoss Middleware. The collaboration aims to offer customers the advantages of an open source stack backed by leading portal and application server technologies proven to be able to scale to meet varying needs within the enterprise.
The companies plan to collaborate across engineering, sales, and marketing groups This means customers can expect to see tangible benefits from the collaboration, including:
- Coordinated sales team to facilitate the purchasing process.
- Reliability of a certified Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition and JBoss EAP stack, backed by a Liferay Enterprise Subscription and a Red Hat subscription.
- Advantages of an open source stack, including transparency, cost and compatibility.
- Technical benefits from value-adding performance and scalability features to the Liferay Portal + JBoss EAP combination, including modular architecture, smart load balancing technology, centralized configuration management, and a cloud-ready platform.
- Potential to expand integration with other Red Hat JBoss Middleware products in the near future.
The collaboration builds on proven real-world deployments where customers have already benefited from a combined Liferay / Red Hat solution. Toyota chose the solution to power its Toyota Owners site, which features customized services and essential tools for customers. Digital Insight is another customer leveraging . the combination to provide online banking solutions for clients According to Brett Conoly, product manager, Admin Platform at Digital Insight:. "Our deployment infrastructure is centered around Red Hat's operating system and JBoss EAP helping us deliver high performance applications across many different environments Combined with Liferay's flexibility, powerful CMS, and ease of onboarding, we are able to deliver impressive solutions quickly to our customers. "
"Liferay Portal is a natural fit with our middleware portfolio, and we are pleased to work with their team," said Mike Piech, vice president, Middleware, Red Hat. "Both companies have a strong commitment to open source and approach the market in similar ways. "
"This Liferay and Red Hat collaboration addresses a market need for enterprise-grade, open source options when it comes to choosing a comprehensive and scalable portal solution," said Brian Kim, chief operating officer at Liferay. "A company can have many solutions that address different business problems. But they want to standardize their enterprise architecture and have confidence that all their applications can perform and scale on a reliable, standardized platform. This collaboration helps us to deliver this to our customers. "
For more Information about Liferay, visit Http://Www.Liferay.Com . For more Information about Red Hat, visit http://www.redhat.com .
Learn more about the benefits of Liferay Portal and JBoss EAP here: Http://Www.Liferay.Com/redhat-jboss .
About Liferay, Inc.
Liferay, Inc . IS A leading provider of Enterprise Open source Portal and Collaboration software Products, servicing Fortune 500 companies Worldwide. Clients include Allianz, Carrefour, Cisco Systems, Danone, Lufthansa Flight Training, Siemens, Société Générale, Toyota and the United Nations. Liferay offers Enterprise Subscriptions, which provide access to emergency fixes, software updates, 24/7 support SLAs, and subscription-only features. Liferay also offers professional services and training to ensure successful deployments for its customers. Liferay, Liferay Portal, and the Liferay logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Liferay, Inc., in the United States and other countries.
Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and JBoss are trademarks of Red Hat, Inc., registered in the US and other countries. Linux® is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the US and other countries.
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Companies can create consistent and integrated experiences across web and mobile channels
LOS ANGELES – (May 26, 2015) – Liferay, Inc., which makes enterprise open source portal software, today announced the availability of Liferay Screens to help companies develop native apps for the iOS and Android platforms. With Liferay Screens, organizations can easily extend the reach of their websites, portals, and intranets to mobile devices, and maintain a consistent experience for its users across all channels.
The release is part of Liferay's larger push to provide a mobile platform for companies developing several native apps across business units. With this strategy, Liferay hopes to save companies time and money by making it easier for mobile apps to reuse core data and services. The platform also ensures that users encounter consistent data and processes—such as registration, login, activity history, or documents—regardless of which interfaces they use to interact with the company.
"The problem we're trying to solve for companies is, ‘how do we quickly build great mobile apps that integrate with the overall customer experience, while keeping development costs to a minimum?'" said Juan Fernandez, Product Manager at Liferay. "Companies have to respond to the mobile explosion, but they need to do so with a strategy. With Liferay Screens, you can develop high-quality, elegant mobile apps quickly without compromising on these long-term considerations."
Liferay Screens also helps make native apps more useful to business units by removing the requirement for apps to be re-coded when business requirements change. For example, without Liferay Screens, a Customer Satisfaction Survey App would need to be updated and re-submitted to app stores whenever survey questions were updated. With a Liferay Screens-powered app backed by Liferay Portal, business users could update the questions in the portal, which would dynamically update the questions in the mobile app. The form submission could even be configured to trigger a workflow, which can also be updated by business users.
For mobile app developers and systems integrators, Liferay Screens provides several benefits over standalone or third party app development toolkits:
- Fully compatible with standard development tools for iOS and Android
- Lowers learning curve for developing apps backed by reusable backend services
- Helps developers comply with UX and Brand requirements using Screens Themes, which follow Apple and Google's design languages and allow for custom colors
- Adaptive layouts automatically ensure apps function and appear correctly on phones and tablets of any form factor
- Reusable services like registration, user management, localization, and authentication help developers focus on more important business logic
Early beta testers of Liferay Screens have been enthusiastic about its benefits for mobile developers who need better mobile app development tools.
"I think the key differentiator of Liferay Screens compared to other mobile solutions in the market is the focus on native," said Nazaret Helices Perez, mobile developer at Near Technologies. "Working with native technologies is a must when you want to deliver high quality, high performance apps. Liferay Screens greatly facilitated this for our Liferay projects."
Salvador Tejero, mobile developer at Indra, added: "Liferay Screens is a breakthrough for the Liferay platform. After initial tests with Liferay Screens, we believe we will now be able to quickly create new screens in our mobile apps, easily feeding in content and services. This will add value to the end user and increase their loyalty... I'd highly recommend Liferay Screens to native app developers looking for a powerful and reusable backend."
Learn more about Liferay Screens and view a demo video at www.liferay.com/screens.
About Liferay
Liferay, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise open source portal and collaboration software products, servicing Fortune 500 companies worldwide. Clients include Allianz, Carrefour, Cisco Systems, Danone, Lufthansa Flight Training, Siemens, Société Générale, Toyota and the United Nations. Liferay offers Enterprise Subscriptions, which provide access to emergency fixes, software updates, 24/7 support SLAs, and subscription-only features. Liferay also offers professional services and training to ensure successful deployments for its customers. Liferay, Liferay Portal, and the Liferay logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Liferay, Inc., in the United States and other countries.
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