
Social Office vs Portal
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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