Inaugurating the Liferay India Office

Here are some pictures of our new India office. It's in the Raheja Arcade, smack in the center of the Koramangala, the IT district of Bangalore. I was deeply humbled to witness our expansion into India. In these tough economic times, not too many companies are expanding. We've been blessed to be a leader in the open source portal and collaboration space, where demand has actually gone up during this economic downturn because we've been able to deliver more bang for the buck than our commercial counterparts at IBM and Oracle.

They are really into ceremonies in India. I got to cut a ribbon.

This office is different from our other offices around the world in that it has two floors and many rooms. Our other offices follow the format of one big war room or several war rooms.

An office is nothing more than real estate and furniture. To make it work, you gotta add that secret ingredient... people. I'm amazed at the talent of our growing Indian team.

The opening ceremony was on Good Friday, and to my surprise, it was a public holiday in India. It's not even a public holiday in the US.

[Arvind Mishra]

Great to see liferay expanding in Bangalore .Raheja arcade made me feel little nostalgic . Spend 3 great years of life in Bangalore , use to live very close to kormangala .
Thanks for sharing the snaps .

[jerin jacob]

Whow .... I am new to liferay ... but nice to know that it is near to me .... This will really help to expand ... great initiative ...............

[Nagiy reddyy Yedulay]

Great to see a liferay in bangalore.now we can say liferay in bangalore.

[Akhil Gupta]

Congratulations on opening Liferay office in India. We look forward to better collaboration with your team now. There is a Job Opportunity for Liferay Developers in Gurgaon, Delhi area. Visit www.yatra.com and apply from the careers section. Reference check will be required.

[Zankar Shah]

Congratulations!!!! Its great news for Liferay. I just had one question will Liferay in India will be involved in development and upgradation of new features of Liferay Software or just implementing Liferay

[Brian Chan]

All of our offices are involved in every aspect. I'm a big believer in having well rounded offices instead of having an office that just does function X.

So our India office will be just like our US, EU, and China offices. It'll do core development, support, training, sales, and consulting.

[Zankar Shah]

Hey Brian! Nice to hear that you are going ahead and doing all rounded offices. Any plans to open up office in Australia?

[anand abhyankar]

Hey, its great to see Liferay office in India!
Congratulations!!

Thanks for sharing the snaps!

[Parul Seth]

Congratulations!!!!
That's great news. Happy to hear that it will function as a complete unit out here.
Welcome to India !!!

[Navein Austin Fernandes]

Wow! I have been using Liferay for about a year now in my company. As of late any issues we would send it to our team in US and they would discuss it with the Liferay team over there. This would be really great. I hope that we could get in touch sometime and discuss issues if any when they arise. Congrats!!!!! once again.

[Alaa Hendi]

do you have a plan to open Dubai office?

[Dilip Thomas Ittyera]

Congrats Brian - way to go!! All the Best for the team @LR.

We have been using LR close to 3 yrs now - we now have what we believe is the first enterprise Idea Management platform in LR. We already have a Community powered Idea Incubation platform running @ http://www.PlanetAikon.com where there are 6 ideas being incubated by a community including NASSCOM Innovation Community.

Cheers

[Brian Chan]

Yup, Dubai and Australia are on our list as well for future offices. We're trying our best to do things organically to make sure that every office we start has our DNA / culture so the company doesn't grow too fast.

[Hernan Soulages]

That's a good idea. I've seen too much growth breaking companies apart. Do you have an expansion path for countries? I mean, like leveraging partnerships to gather talented and involved developers.

[Brian Chan]

We grow very organically through the community and different partnerships. The last thing I want is to dilute our brand by growing too quickly. We've actually had a very concerted growth path even though we're at 100 in our headcount now.

We're very strict with who we hire and work with. It's a combination of competency and culture. We don't sacrifice one for the other.

[Suresh Nimmakayala]

wow that is gr8 Brian i used work in Bangalore 7 years Back.i am proud to say since 2004 i am working on liferay in new zealand.

[Rohit Salecha]

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[Rohit Salecha]

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[Manoj GT]

Will liferay provide training about the usage of liferay portal and social office?

[Sangamesh Reddy]

Congratulations!!!!
I am from Bangalore,I am new to liferay portal development.new office in Blore which is IT capital of India will definitely helps to grow faster.

[Kapil Dev Verma]

It has been more than 4 years since i left that city. I am a big fan of liferay and Bangalore. The forum/raheja arcade/Ganesha Temple used to be favorite hangout places. Wish I was there to see the enaugration.

[Mehdi Khan]

Hi Brian i am also new to liferay working on varuous project using liferay from the day of joining as a fresher and got traning in Liferay so i would like to know is there any traning programe from lifery or certification programe to developed my skill in liferay .
And is ther a plan to open Liferay Office in Delhi also.