Liferay Digital Experience Platform Reviews

All the features that are provided by Liferay are very useful, such as Web Content, Document Library and Media, Roles, Permissioning, Resources, Organizations, Users, Sites, Custom Fields, Plugins, and so on. These features enable us to extend Liferay functionality and allow us to customize the out-of-the-box features of Portal to meet our customers’ requirements.

We are using it for projects to provide quick turnaround for our clients' requests. Liferay has a powerful feature for the hot deployment of plugins, and service builders for easily creating tables using Sprint, Hibernate, JPA, etc.

I would like to see them arrange more symposiums in India, because most of the resources who work on Liferay are from India, more than any other country.

I'd like for them to have more interactive sessions, training or face-to-face meetings with the Liferay core team for Developers, so that we can have our questions/clarifications clarified directly with them, rather than asking over a webinar session, through forums, through support tickets, etc.

I have been using Liferay for the past 10+ years now and I love to work with it.

I have not encountered any serious stability issues, but if we come across anything, we get great support from Liferay as a patch.

The portal is very easy in terms of adding more nodes to a cluster.

Technical support is 9/10.

I have used two other portal servers. I really did not like the way they allowed admins to do administrative actions. Liferay is easy to understand and complete the admin actions through the control panel with meaningful names and a short description about what each module does.

Initial setup is straightforward and I did not find it difficult. Liferay has great online documentation, which gives us more confidence in achieving anything with it.

It is a budget-friendly solution and less expensive than any other portal servers available on the market.

Go with this product, because there is great support from the company, rich forum support and online documentation, and the source code allows you to make changes on your own with an LGPL license from vendor.

The most valuable feature is management and permissions according to user, role, and group.

There are several areas that need improvement:

• The core code base needs refactoring. It’s very hard to understand it when trying to do customizations.
• They could remove the business logic from the UI (JSPs) and stop using scriptlets in JSPs.
• Data integrity should be at the database level (normalization/foreign keys) and not at the application level.
• Also, they need to upgrade third party libraries (e.g., Spring) to the newest versions. Liferay is stuck on Spring 3.2, while Spring 4.3.x is the last version and they are working on a 5.0 framework.
• Use Java Config instead of XML config.
• Add support for JBoss EAP domain mode
• Source code sharing in SVN/git still needs to be revisited

I’ve used Liferay for more than 1 year.

Yes, we did have issues with stability.

Yes, we encountered scalability issues.

Initial setup was complex compared to IBM WebSphere.

I recommend going with the CE version.

We evaluated IBM WebSphere portal, but found WebSphere to be overkill for our project.

I would emphasize using Liferay’s OOTB features so you don’t build something that already exists.

Also, make sure you actually need the features it provides.

The features I find valuable are its integration points with other systems and scalability. This is important because the portal (Liferay) is an addition to the current J2EE Framework. That being said, it lends itself to roll all processing (Spring batch) into the Liferay Tomcat bundle. This process can be done in reverse order to ensure performance.

For integration points using simple plugins with SAP, you can create your own secure service bus for information. If you would like to convert your Liferay platform to a presentation layer for CRM, you can leverage Dynamic MS CRM or SugarCRM with ease using plugins or a Java framework.

Our organization benefited by the automated client setup and an easy CMS setup.

Major upgrades switch the Liferay framework core structure dramatically in EVERY occasion. However, there were only subtle changes from the last minor upgrade to the major upgrade.

I used this product for two years where I currently work. In my former job, I used it for six years.

I have encountered stability issues during the upgrade process from 5.2 EE to 6.1.XX EE. There are always issues with Social Office.

We had no scalability issues.

The technical support need was moderate as the tool lends itself to be customized away from the (out-of-the box) OOB portal product. Liferay does not always support these custom components.

We used ColdFusion for a previous project for a CMS portal.

The installation was simple on a Linux-based operating system. It was complex with Windows Servers, but we still managed.

We recommend never leveraging static components when developing licensing requirements because the operating system layer and its environment will always change to fit support costs.

We did not evaluate alternative solutions.

Make sure you understand what you want the product to do. If your company has an overall future for growth, then Liferay is a good choice as it is an enterprise solution.

For me, the most important features are scalability, architecture, the fact that it's Java-based, includes a CMS, and provides audience targeting tools. The newest Liferay "Screens" feature is very interesting too.

We develop advanced web solutions based on Liferay with lower development costs and fewer team members.

Liferay needs a better web content search engine.

I've been using Liferay since 5.2.x version in 2009.

We have stability issues only when the developers don't follow the Liferay guidelines and best practices.

I didn't have any issues with scalability.

Liferay has good technical support with a high level of product knowledge.

I’ve tested several options over the years: PHPnuke, PostNuke, Joomla, WordPress, Drupal. But none of them have as many built-in features as Liferay.

Liferay bundles make the initial setup is very easy. Just execute a bundled Tomcat package with a Liferay installation within.

It’s a good idea to subscribe to Liferay support. They have good product knowledge and solve problems quickly.

We tried Drupal, but it doesn't have as many built-in features as Liferay.

My advice is that if you want to extend the product, don't recreate existing functionalities or libraries. Just follow the guidelines and best practices.

The most valuable features are role-based permissions, organization management, and the scalability of many third-party integrations.

Liferay has a CMS, role-based permissions, and hierarchy-of-organization community management which provides lots of features for intranet and enterprise applications. It also provides tools for mobile development.

The API documentation could be improved, as well as the debugging tools.

I’ve used Liferay for more than 6 years.

We had a number of issues with stability, but we found solutions from the community or in patches for the enterprise edition.

We did not encounter any issues with scalability.

We didn’t use any other solutions.

The initial setup was quite easy.

We evaluated WebSphere before choosing Liferay.

For normal sites, we can use other available options, such as PHP. But Liferay is good for enterprise and large-scale systems, especially role and hierarchy management systems, or when you have multi-site requirements.

• Support OSGi Framework
• Excellent Content management system
• Administrative functions through the control panel
• Elastic search

These features are valuable because they all are basic requirements for all portals and have been achieved easily with the Liferay DXP portal.

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Very important changes are OSGi modularization for existing portlets and new modules. It change the way of development and make life easy for developers

I have been playing liferay from last 9 years and palyed almost all the version and have seen many pros and cons across versions.

Yes we faced many issues during production deployment and specially performance tuning and best suppoprt architecture.

Yes as this is open source so don't see its big hurdle here.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

10/10

Technical support is very nice for the EE customers.

I did not previously use a different solution.

If its first time then you will definatly struggle but later on it would be very easy if you understand the structure.

It should maintain a competitive price in the open source market.

Before choosing this product, I did not evaluate other options.

It is just awesome; you should experience DXP. I am blogging many useful solution on www.liferaysolution.com

All of the following features are important to us:

• Content Management System
• Document Management System
• Workflow Engine
• Roles and permissions for authorization and authentication
• Forums, blogs, and chat
• Responsive UI

They are all in high demand, and we have implemented them for our customers.

We use the Workflow Engine for managing the approval process. We have used blogs and discussion forums for information exchange between the employees, and as a chatting platform within the organization.

The loading speed could be improved.

I have been using Liferay Digital Experience Platform for about 10 years.

We did not encounter any issues with stability.

We did not encounter any issues with scalability.

We received very good technical support. For the Enterprise Edition versions, there is exclusive support. For the Community Edition versions, there are a lot of forums available.

Before using Liferay Digital Experience Platform, we used WordPress. Liferay is far more secure and robust.

The initial setup was pretty straightforward.

The Community Edition versions are open source and freely available.

Pricing for Enterprise Edition versions can be obtained by requesting a quote from Liferay.

We evaluated both WordPress and Drupal before deciding on Liferay.

This product is very secure, robust, and highly scalable. It can also be customized to almost any extent.

• Check in: lets you update a document that you have edited. Its version number will be increased and the previous version document will be saved for reference.
• Check out: lets you check out a document for editing. This prevents anyone else from accessing the file while someone is working on the checked out document.
• Document library (repository): Liferay provides a document management system (CMS). It not only keeps the document but also manages the document with proper versioning and permissions for accessing the document.
• Multiple-file upload: allows uploading multiple file at one time to the document library.
• Workflow: allows using Keleo for workflow, which manages a module’s flow within specific roles of the hierarchy.
• Document conversion tool (file format conversion): allows document conversion for common extensions such as Word to PDF and vice versa, with OpenOffice.
• Multiple sites in one Liferay portal: One can create multiple sites with a single Liferay installation.
• User-role management: Liferay manages its own users and roles with its control panel that consists of a rich UI that is very user friendly.
• LDAP Support: Helps with single sign on in Liferay.

It reduces development time as well as requires less maintenance.

I would like to see it require fewer configurations from the properties file, and provide more GUI options to configure changes.

I’d also like to maybe see virus scanning for file uploads.

I have not encountered any stability issues.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

I have never taken technical support from the vendor.

I did not previously use a different solution.

The initial step is way too easy.

Before choosing this product, I also evaluated BackBase.

Use this product wisely.

The Liferay team has made this product to the mark. As of now, the technology is up-to-date and fulfills all essential requirements.