Liferay Digital Experience Platform Reviews

• Web Content Management
• User Management

We utilize this product in multiple ways: for Web content management, inter-portlet communication, user management. LDAP is the most advantageous. All the portlets and widgets are plugins, which provides flexibility to add/modify in multiple ways. It’s user friendly and hence requires minimal knowledge to understand and operate it.

Its SSL-based client authentication support needs to be improved.

SSL and proxy configuration in Liferay: Basically, the visitors connect to the site with HTTP and for a few secured apps, the request is automatically routed as HTTPS. Liferay provides a good amount of support for Apache servers.

Example:
SSLCertificateFile="/etc/ssl/tomcat/cpcert.crt"
SSLCertificateKeyFile="/etc/ssl/tomcat/devevn.pem"
SSLPass="

I have used it for eight years.

It’s highly scalable and gives excellent performance.

Technical support is 10/10.

I was using IBM WCM but switched to Liferay, as it is open source and has a lot of support.

Setup is straightforward; Ext is a little complex.

It’s open source, unless you want to go for the enterprise version; except for support, you have everything in the non-enterprise version of the product.

Before choosing this product, we also evaluated Adobe AEM, Alfresco, etc.

100% go for it.

The community and collaboration features such as forums, library, wikis, event and ideas.

Our organisation is set up to support other organisations working in Public Sector Improvement. The product has helped our members and communities to freely connect, share knowledge, develop initiatives and share expertise in a secure environment. This has enabled organisations to save both time and money, generated and incubated ideas to drive improvement, and helped members discover knowledge to help in their job and connect with people and experts.

Liferay does currently lack a good integrated analytics package, automation, and filtering.

I've been using it for years.

We had no material issues during deployment.

We did, at different stages, have performance issues, but this was resolved by moving to the recommend infrastructure.

It's been able to scale for our needs.

8/10

9/10

We previously used an IBM WebSphere product. We moved to an open source product to support the concept being promoted in the UK Government and expected scalability without scaled cost.

A bit of both. Learning what a new platform can and can’t do can take a while especially if you are moving from an established platform that was bespoke built to a portal based platform. Showcasing the benefits of moving to the members and migrations was tough to start with but has proved to be beneficial.

We implemented it through a vendor team, PFI Knowledge Solutions Limited (PFIKS). They are the only UK platinum partner of Liferay and have a great level of expertise - 8/10, even though it is a relatively small organisation

Check out the community (free) version first. Go with Enterprise Edition for the great Liferay support.

A number of alternative products were evaluated, including staying with the original IBM platform. We selected Liferay due to its flexibility and scalability.

Take your time, Liferay can do so many different things and can be very complex. So be clear on what you are building.

You can create and manage dozens of sites with a single installation of Liferay, without a single line of Java code. Liferay has an excellent website concepts model, with a clear separation between content, applications, users, themes, layouts, etc.

We use Liferay on our modern-look, mobile-ready website and we also use it on out intranet. We use it on our customers projects, and they love Liferay's flexibility

Liferay is a phenomenal product with deficient marketing. More OOTB examples are needed to allow the user to faster realize it's full potential. We also need better translations. Some of the multi-lingual functionality can be improved.

We are using Liferay on and off since 2007, but we've chosen to standardize on this product around 2012.

We've had no issues with deployment.

We've had no issues with stability since 6.1

We've had no issues with scalability but we never had any project with more than 500 users (up to 2015). The benchmarks published by Liferay, however, look very promising on this matter.

I've been using mostly the Community Edition, but for customers with critical apps/sites I think the Enterprise Edition is good value.

I'm currently not a user of the official tech support but the forums and the web is full of useful information. When that fails, we can always look into the source code t understand what might be going wrong.

Yes, we used several PHP site management products but, when comparing to Liferay, they lack coherence and simplicity in the content management functions. As for integration and scalability, Liferay beats them all easily.

The initial setup is very easy but the OOTB themes are poor, when comparedto modern web design. If you register on the Marketplace you can download some very moderns themes and use them in your websites.

We have in-house expertise.

We have been using Liferay for our websites and intranet, and its difficult to calculate the ROI for that. But, since we adopted Liferay we have the ability to change contents and apps much faster, and that is invaluable , nowadays.

While we're not using the subscription services, we are aware that Liferay has very competitive pricing, when compared to the competition.

We had experience with Drupal, Joomla and other PHP platforms and we evaluated Sharepoint also.

We also evaluated Alfresco, but we decided that Alfresco and Liferay are not competitors. Instead, they both play very well together, for complex situations involving ECM, BPM and Web apps.

The most valuable features is Java based platform and JSR portlet for development.

It has provided one place for integration.

There are a lot of possibilities for improvement in several areas.

I have been using Liferay since 2007

Yes, a wide range of issues.

Yes, in most of our big projects.

Yes, both horizontal and vertical.

Customer service is very high.

Technical support depends on the subscription, but it is good.

No previous solution used.

The platform is independent of the environment and first setup is very easy. Just click.

We used a vendor team who I met and they have great expertise.

Big benefit is in relation to cost. There are a lot of out of box things and on the other side is has got elastic platform for further improvements.

Just the subscription, which is one year for us.

Yes, we also looked at SharePoint and WebSphere.

High cost.