Track B
Building and Deploying a Global Intranet with Liferay
(Shagul Khaja, Rivet Logic)
Enterprise 2.0 is no longer a hype, but a necessity in a new era where more enterprises are starting to have a global presence. As users' expectations of intranets grow it has become crucial for global enterprises to rise to the challenge and stay competitive by providing their employees with an effective means of collaboration, communication and socialization to not only increase productivity, but also to strengthen employee loyalty. This presentation will discuss how Liferay Portal facilitates the architecture of global intranets that meet these challenges, along with practical examples of how it can be used to achieve the results expected from an Enterprise 2.0 intranet.
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Built to Work
(Brian Kim, Liferay)
For the decision maker, the Liferay platform is all about building solutions that give results. This session will cover the challenges that you may face when developing a new application for your business. Topics will include how to simplify your application to improve its usability and how to best develop and build your applications when using Liferay.
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Case Study: Liferay 6.0 Platform at The Hershey Company
(David Stahl, The Hershey Company)
The Hershey Company uses the Liferay platform for web content management, site development, and custom applications. I will share some of the benefits and challenges faced in managing content and development at The Hershey Company. I'll share examples of sites that have leveraged the Liferay 6.0 platform. I'll also look forward to future plans and goals for utilizing the Liferay Platform to help manage sites including a project to convert custom Wordpress sites to the Liferay platform.
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Developing JSF 2 Portlets with ICEfaces, AlloyFaces, and LiferayFaces
(Neil Griffin, Triton Services)
This presentation will show developers how they can deploy JSF 2 portlets within Liferay Portal via the PortletFaces Bridge. It will explore the benefits that ICEfaces 2 brings to portlets, including automatic Ajax and ICEpush for rich Inter-Portlet Communication (IPC). Additionally, developers will learn how to use JSF UI components from AlloyFaces and LiferayFaces within their JSF 2 portlets. Demos will include an iPhone app that updates an ICEfaces portlet UI via Ajax Push.
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Five Hidden Gems of AlloyUI That You Can Leverage in Your Applications Today
(Nathan Cavanaugh, Liferay)
In this session, attendees will learn about using the AlloyUI taglibs such as <aui:input/>, <aui:script/>, <aui:layout/>, sugar helpers (javascript methods, extensions etc) to help make working with elements easier to manipulate, and utilizing Liferay CSS framework to perform common tasks. Attendees will also discover how to leverage AlloyUI components from web content articles as well as handling frequently used patterns.
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Liferay as a Strategic Portal Platform for Higher Education Sector Cloud
(Rajesh Sinha, Fulcrum)
Fulcrum is active in the Higher Education (HE) sector, especially in the UK and Europe, and is in the process of forming a consortium between Fulcrum and government agencies so that it can employ federal funding to develop industry wide standards to be used for the HE sector. This project is called "Step-F" and is a part of a larger initiative of building HE Cloud in the UK through which it will become possible to build a common architecture and re-use it multiple times. Once these standards are put into place, universities will no longer need to invest large amounts of time, money, and energy for the IT needs that are common across various subsidiaries. Liferay will be a strategic open source platform for HE Cloud and will provide business value through a shared application approach including E-commerce, social collaboration, client management & ESB.
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Put the Pulse of Your Business in the Palm of Your Hand
(Stephen Rituper, MeLLmo)
We're putting an end to limited, lifeless business reporting that's either tied to your laptop or a struggle to read on your mobile device. Roambi is an innovative mobile application that quickly transforms your Liferay business reports and data into secure, interactive mobile analytics – instantly delivered to any iPhone or iPad. It lets on-the-go professionals easily view, interact with and share up-to-the-minute company information – and provides them with insight for analysis, impromptu presentations and smart decision-making. Join us to find out more about how Roambi works with your Liferay reports and what it can do for you and your company. Our presenter will show Roambi's ease of use by uploading an Excel file or connecting to a BI platform. Then will show Roambi in action on an iPhone and iPad simulator.
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Reduce IT Overhead and Streamline Business Processes with Liferay Data Lists and Workflow Forms
(Michael Han and Ed Chung, Liferay)
As an IT manager, you have to balance immediate needs of your business with the strategic initiatives necessary for supporting long term growth. Often times, strategic initiatives, like the introduction of an ERP system, become side tracked in favor of short term solutions like creating a web application for field sales representatives to capture orders. To help alleviate these pain points, Liferay introduces the User Data List feature to help business users create applications to gather and display business data. Using User Data Lists, your business users can easily create these applications within Liferay Portal in a controlled manner, without compromising overall system integrity, security, and scalability. We will also preview how Liferay's Kaleo Workflow can augment the capabilities of User Data Lists.
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Rich Portlet UI Development with ZK
(Ron Bense, XTIVIA)
Ron will show you how to use the ZK framework for rich portlet development on Liferay. ZK is a leading enterprise Ajax + Mobile framework that is renowned for its "Ajax without JavaScript" approach since 2005, enabling developers to build rich internet applications transparently without any knowledge of Ajax and JavaScript. In this workshop, Ron will demonstrate how to get started with ZK and solve some common issues that impede progress on Liferay. He will demonstrate a couple of enterprise customer ZK portlet samples built while working on an end-to-end customer portal implementation on the cloud.
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Our Journey to Success with Liferay
(Shailesh Dangi and Sudhaker Raj, SofiaTechnology)
Over the past decade, enterprise portals have evolved from mere content aggregation tools to powerful user-experience platforms that exploit a wide range of new architectural concepts like RIA (Rich Internet Application), mash-ups, E2.0 and "process" portals. "Out-of-the-box" portals often fall short in meeting each enterprise's business-specific requirements. To realize the full potential of your portal investments, you need a platform that not only blends these new architectural concepts together but also adds the ability to extend and customize the portal to fit the enterprise's unique requirements. It is these enterprise capabilities that led SOFIA to choose Liferay EE for a new portal to be built from the ground up at one of the world's leading financial services companies and to serve a global audience. Join us for an interactive session as we journey through the features that drew us to Liferay EE, our deployment goals, the challenges we had to overcome and the best practices we discovered along the way.
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Using Liferay as a Platform for Social Applications
(Rich Sezov, Liferay)
Have dreams of writing the next Farmville? Wondering about social applications for your enterprise? Trying to figure out what the big deal is with all this social stuff? This session will show you what a fantastic platform Liferay is for social applications. Join us as we explore Liferay's Social API and learn all about social relations, social requests, publishing activities, and putting Liferay apps on Facebook.
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