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Social Office vs Portal

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  1. Social Office
    1. Summary
      1. Use cases
        1. Compare With
        2. Liferay Portal
          1. Summary
            1. Use Cases
              1. Compare With
              2. References

                Social Office #

                Summary #

                Social Office is a team workspace product that combines collaboration and social networking features in a single package designed for enterprises. Social Office is a platform that enables teams working together to share documents, ideas, and much more. You can stay in sync no matter where in the world your teammates may be. Social Office is an end-user solution with a specific function and purpose out of the box. It has been built using Liferay Portal as its foundation.

                Use cases #

                • Shared Workspaces for office teams to collaborate
                • Document sharing
                • Social networking in an enterprise (Enterprise social computing)

                Compare With #

                • Microsoft Sharepoint
                • Google Docs
                • Jive Clearspace

                Liferay Portal #

                Summary#

                Liferay Portal is first and foremost an enterprise portal, which traditionally has been considered a “framework” or “tool” for simplifying enterprise application integration, consolidating a reusable presentation tier, and managing, publishing or consuming web services.

                However, integrated web content management, social networking and collaboration means Liferay provides immediate value in the near term and integration potential for the long term.

                Use Cases #

                All Social Offices use cases, but with additional potential for customization and integration

                • Public Websites
                • Commerce sites
                • Enterprise Portals
                • SOA Initiatives, web services, systems integration
                • Integration with ERP, CRM, Financials, legacy systems
                • Building base for custom Web-based applications (such as a learning management system targeted to a specific industry)
                • Extranets, Intranets, My websites
                • Enterprise Content Management that involves integration with multiple repositories

                Compare With #

                • IBM Websphere Portal
                • BEA Weblogic Portal
                • BEA AquaLogic User Interaction
                • Oracle Portal
                • Oracle WebCenter

                References #

                Original forum post by Bryan Cheung

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                "Social Office" is really very good (and fast)... Fuad Efendi February 12, 2010 1:00 PM

                Fuad Efendi
                "Social Office" is really very good (and fast) implementation of a specific use case, using Liferay Portal hooks.

                It is an instance of Liferay Portal, with additional portlets such as so-portlet, chat, mail, and etc.

                You can simply take so-portlet and so-theme from plugins (trunk), compile and deploy it (don't forget to study it!).

                The only problem is that it is still "Community" based; Liferay is will change (for v.5.3): "Community" will become a special type of "Organization".

                Another problem is... Document Library (sometimes versioning doesn't work). v.5.3 will have many improvements.

                (don't forget Windows Vista 64-bit has bugs with their own WebDAV protocol).
                Posted on 2/12/10 1:00 PM.