What is Liferay Portal?
Liferay Portal is an open source enterprise web platform written in Java and released under the LGPL license. It provides a robust framework for building websites, intranets, online communities, and other web-based solutions with integrated social collaboration, content management, and integration capabilities.
Some key features of Liferay Portal include:
- Modular architecture allowing developers to build customized solutions
- Out-of-the-box collaboration tools like blogs, wikis, message boards, calendar, RSS, and more
- Drag and drop content authoring and robust content workflow environment
- Standards-based integration using web services and service-oriented architecture
- Enterprise data integration capabilities
- Scalability to handle high traffic loads
- Support for custom application development
- Administrative dashboard and configuration environment
Liferay Portal has an active development and user community, as well as commercial support options available. It can serve as an extensible development platform for web-based business applications with collaboration, content management and social networking needs.
Microsoft SharePoint, Alfresco Community Edition, HumHub, Portofino, Process Street, eXo Platform, Shelf.io, Nuxeo Platform, KnowledgeTree, Sense/Net, Linchpin, HCL Connections, Alfresco in the Cloud, Jmix are some alternatives to Liferay Portal.