Amplexor liferay mini semar etex case

Case: Etex

18,000 employees 105 companies 45 countries 20 languages 6 divisions

1 GROUP

We need to share information and knowledge across the different companies in the group!

The solution must be flexible enough to allow

new companies to join the group!

Corporate - About Etex - Who’s who - Announcements

Division - Division info - Announcements

Company - Working At… - Tools - Announcements

Organisation overview

Etex Corporate

…

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AMEA EBM West LatAm

Promat Belgium espresso.promat-belgium.be

Creaton espresso.creaton.com

Communities

- Discussion forum

- Info pages

- Events calendar

- Document Library

ANYBODY can create a community on ANY subject

People

Similar to Facebook and LinkedIn

- Connect with friends/colleagues

- Post status updates

- Comment to posts

- Share images/documents

- Chat

Demo

Agile approach

Impact was underestimated by the client Difficult to organize within such a large multinational group Input from too many users, too many companies, which led to a lot of scope changes

Standard Liferay

Lots of out-of-the-box components available => use them Standard components, different presentation Flexible Development API

Complex permissions

Advanced out-of-the-box permission settings Complex custom permission implementation possible Pluggable architecture

Liferay backend

Seems to be more for technical oriented users Backend-users need minimal training

Liferay maturity

Liferay is becoming a mature product Growth to maturity comes with some minor bugs Very good Liferay support which managed to solve +90% of the bugs within 48 hours

Conclusion

Best choice if you have a mix of Content Management, Document Management and Social Collaboration Liferay is a good choice for a phased approach Portlets offer a flexible way to restructure the content of the pages completely without any code changes Liferay can be used for public website, intranet, … on one installation, without additional license costs