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Building and Deploying a Global Intranet with Liferay
June 23th 2011
Rivet Logic Corporation 1800 Alexander Bell Drive Suite 400 Reston, VA 20191 Ph: 703.955.3480 Fax: 703.234.7711
Presented By Shagul Khaja Software Architect Rivet Logic Corporation
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Rivet Logic Overview
• Award-winning professional services firm focused on enabling: • Collaboration and Community Platforms • Enterprise Content Management • Web Content Management and Portals
• Using Leading Open Source Software
• Company Facts • Headquartered in Reston, VA • Regional Offices in Boston, New York City, Los Angeles • Near-shore Development Center in Costa Rica
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Rivet Logic and Liferay
• Platinum Partner • Conduct Public Training on East Coast USA • Contributor (various means) • Host of first ever East Coast User Conference in
2009 • 25+ Liferay implementations
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Enterprise 2.0
• Is it still a hype? • Needs a balance • Micro-blogging
• Great for quick updates
Your employees are here. Yes. In social networks.
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Intranet vs. Public Site
Come. Take a look at it. How does your intranet compare to
the public site?
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ROI vs. Value
• Reduced help desk calls • Easy to Collaborate • Easy content management • Increased employee loyalty • Executives can
communicate easily with employees
Yes. There is a balance.
ROI on Coffee?
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Challenges: Global Intranet
• Language difference • Language variations • Same words have
different meanings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Square
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Liferay to the Rescue
• Themes and color scheme • Blue, pink, yellow and green do not have the
same meanings. • Identify the color that goes well with your region
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Liferay to the Rescue
• Allows authoring content in multiple languages
• Everything is localizable
Who does the translation?
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Liferay to Search and Rescue
• Solr power for search • Provides search framework
• Hook in various enterprise search engines • Override Indexer if needed • Provide Indexer for custom assets
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Channel Information
• Organize global contents using categories and tags • Categorize based on region, country etc.
• Aggregate Contents using • Asset Publisher • Custom WCM applications
• Permission based sharing
You don’t see the document if you don’t have permission. No more errors like this.
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Is this the same document?
• Single source of truth • You know where to look • Single document, content, etc.
• Supports versioning • Email is not a document repository
Is this the same moon?
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Sharing vs Separation
• Challenge • Ability to manage content • Ability to share • Ability to secure • Global compliance
• Liferay to the rescue again • Single tool to share and secure • Security through Communities
• Communities are isolated • Use teams within communities
• Openness through Global scope
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How do I Find People?
• HR and Legal security and privacy constraints
• The directory needs to be global • Find people easily
• Custom Fields to the rescue • Map attributes from other systems • Can be selectively indexed • Apply field level permissions • Roadmap for more features
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Governance
• Challenge • Legal ramifications • Provide control
without sacrificing collaboration
• Moderation through workflow • Regional vs Global content management
• Liferay roles and permissions • May affect user adoption
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Intranet Adoption
• Information Architecture is key • Navigation
• User training • Consider user base
expertise • Reward people • Advanced mobile
support coming soon • Analytics to monitor user behavior • Provide/enhance the tools that people need • Beware of too much policing “I still don’t Twitter, or tweet, or whatever it’s called. I keep thinking that I’ll get around to it, but this old dog just never finds energy to learn a new trick” , Andy Moore, Editorial Director of KMWorld – June 2011
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Liferay is Flexible
• It’s all frameworks • Asset framework • Auditing framework • SSO framework • Search framework • Workflow framework • Permission framework • Everything built with support for integration
Wow! I can do a lot with bricks.
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Liferay Fits In
• Built on best of breed open source technologies • Supports all major enterprise application servers • Database agnostic • Enterprise grade support
Can I rely on this stack?
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Liferay is Scalable
• Global companies • Large user base • Can grow rapidly
through acquisition • HA/Fault Tolerance • Backup/DR • Validate scalability of
external integration points
It looks like our other integration systems can’t
scale.