Liferay portal  is very powerful and complex platform that can serve in different roles:

• content management (CMS/WCM)

• document management

• collaboration platform

• enterprise application integration

• team and organisation unit portal support

From the technological perspective, Liferay is profiled as leading portal based on the JEE  technology stack. It endorses open-source philosophy. Customers can evaluate the usability and features of the platform using  Liferay Community  version, while for serious, production environments it is recommended to use  Liferay Portal Enterprise , primarily to address stability, availability of the system and productivity of IT staff. Due to open-source approach and orientation towards Java based standards for portlet implementation ( JSR-168 / JSR-286 ), it enables integration of 3rd party portlets and easy development of new functionallity.

The main advantage of Liferay as a platform is the capability of replacing several web applications typically used in organisations and enterprises. For example, Liferay can be used as public web server, intranet portal, wiki, document management system, webmail server, single-sign-on server, forum, chat, shared calendar, private/team/unit/section/division web site web application proxy and integration server etc. Dozens of  modules  that are part of Enterprise Edition and several hundreds  plugins developed by the Liferay community says plenty about functionalities and popularity of this platform. Due to lesser number of servers and applications needed to support all mentional functionallities, IT sections can significantly reduce workload of the administrators and improve the availability of the needed applications.

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