Liferay Portlet Development

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The corporate world is finally tuning in to the power of social networking and collaboration between staff across departments. The revolution started when companies started giving employees access to email instead of relying on internal phone lines, and it is continuing with the implementation of corporate Intranets designed to increase the flow of information between departments.

Liferay portlets in general are great for a very specific class of applications. If you are working for an IT department and need to combine applications for or by several departments then portlets would be the way to go. In theory you can drop in portlets from different venders and they will all live in harmony inside of the same environment.

LifeRay has grown out of a need from corporations to embrace the benefits of social networking but in the controlled environment required by managers and directors - it's no use creating a social network if the staff are simply using it to view the holiday snaps of other employees!

LifeRay is designed from the ground up to be a true corporate package. Beginning with the framework, it can ...
... be customized to your exact requirements with the use of portlets which add additional functionality. The open source nature of the software means that it is also extremely easy to create new portlets and to customize it.

Benefits of Liferay portlet Development :
• Since the software is open source, it reduces the costs significantly over other more expensive paid solutions - and what's more, it does virtually everything the more expensive options do anyway!

• It already comes with virtually everything you need to run an effective corporate Intranet for collaboration and communication. The wide array of pre-built portlets let you choose the exact functionality you want to add.

• It's very easy for your staff to learn. The UI has already won usability awards and innovative features cut down on the number of steps or clicks your staff have to take to perform certain operations.

• Upfront costs are zero, so you can literally deploy LifeRay for free before committing to any customization work

• Over 60 add on modules and 20 free themes available for LifeRay - it's literally possible to set up your system for zero cost

• The open source nature of the software means that even if the company changes direction or closes, the software lives on in the open source community

Liferay is very modular in design and just like Wordpress, a number of add-ons can be created, the terminology for which is “Portlets”, little snippets of code that query the database to display some information. Mostly the portlets add a small amount of functionality, and since Liferay is completely free to use the development costs for deploying an Enterprise social network script can be significantly lower than a commercial option.

Attune Infocome’s liferay developer to develop social networking software for client, including Intranet and collaboration platforms, we have a unique insight in to what kind of functionality you might require from a Liferay powered website. We’ve developed numerous Liferay portlets in the past for companies with Liferay Portlet Development and even Liferay Theme Development.

Liferay portlets should be considered as akin to a shared infrastructure. They provide a common way to access applications, shared services and a standard way of deployment, but at the cost of performance. Liferay portlet is a extremely powerful system, there are many services and applications

However if you are building an application that is any of the following:
1) Created entirely by a single team
2) has a single source for the requirements
3) has requirements that aren't a subset of the features available in the Liferay portlets container.
4) has a graphic designer that isn't willing to live within the confines of portal style applications.

Liferay Portlets make a lot of the design decisions for your in terms of authentication and authorization, navigation and layout. If the plans you have for your application fall outside of those decisions you will spend a lot of time creating workarounds to try and get it to do what you want.

More support and consulting :
If you are looking for Liferay portlet developer for a specific project, then you can hire us as a Liferay portlet developer for Liferay development. We also offer professional support services where your company will be assigned a Liferay developer ensuring your questions are answered promptly so that your project is never compromised. Purchased support always gets first priority. This business model allows us to build a company that can contribute a great portal to the open source community. If your company uses Liferay, please consider purchasing support. Liferay has an extremely liberal license model, which means you can rebundle Liferay, rename it, and sell it under your name. Our Liferay portlet developer provide professional support and consulting.

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