Liferay and Drupal Comparison

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@shubhamnagar

Director – InfoAxon Technologies

INDIA’s FIRST Open source Integration Company

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Portal vs CMS – Often a

Source of confusion

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What is a Portal? What is a CMS ?

Focuses on content and

application delivery

A content management

system and not a content

delivery system

Has administration of users

who author content

Manage and audit the

publication of content

Delivers personalized or

customized content to users

Manages access to content

and applications (SSO)

Contextualizes and frames

large content sets

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Liferay is a Open Source Horizontal Portal and CMS

Platform with rich enterprise stability and capabilities

Drupal is only an Open Source CMS

Platform NOT a Portal or anything else

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What is Drupal?

What is Liferay ?

• Drupal is an open source content management platform

• PHP Based

• GPL License

• Liferay Portal is an open source enterprise portal platform easily

integrated with available frameworks (also open source)

• Liferay Portal is integrated with Liferay CMS, a built-in content

management system and a wide collection of collaboration tools – all

available in one download

• Java based

• MIT License

Summary

• Drupal = CMS*

• Liferay = Portal + CMS + Collaboration Tools + Enterprise Support +

Social + Document Management + Workflow all in one pack

*Both Drupal and Liferay offer add-ons that provide functionality as additional downloadable modules. In Drupal you need to know where and what to pick. No support from Drupal directly

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For the fifth year,

independent leading

research firm Gartner

has named Liferay a

Leader in the Magic

Quadrant for

Horizontal Portals.

Drupal is considered

more a niche player

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The portal and CMS markets are converging/evolving

into the larger knowledge worker productivity

software market with digital engagement across

customers, partners and employees giving birth to

new business models

Top spending priorities are:

• Portals and portal frameworks

• Content and document management systems

• Navigation, search, and retrieval (NSR)

• Collaboration

• Digital Engagement

Liferay has always been evolving toward integrated

portal, CMS, NSR, Social, Multi Site and collaboration

functionality

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Only enterprise portals easily encompass all other

functional areas in the knowledge management, digital

engagement and content targeting market.

Advantages of Portal against CMS, NSR, Collaboration• LDAP integration and enterprise taxonomy concepts

• Customizable and robust authentication pipeline

• Portal integration framework can envelop any CMS, blog,

Wiki

• Standalone Wiki or blog is a commodity; portal-enabled

wikis/blogs with community scoping adds greater value

• Portal offers standardized and generic integration through

Web services, REST, ESB, etc.

• Navigation, search, retrieval works across enterprise

applications and content sources

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Drupal Professional Support• Support provided by third party consulting companies

• Highest SLA (unknown)

Liferay Professional Support• Support provided directly by Liferay, Inc., creators of Liferay

Portal

• Highest SLA – 24/7 business critical phone support with one

hour response time provided directly from Liferay engineer

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Much more

development required

on Drupal for User

Stories than Liferay

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Liferay Gives Drupal Gives

A comprehensive group wide platform

with multi-site ability to host all kinds of

Group sites with no further investment

Only a Content Management framework;

Rest of Portal interfaces will need to be

developed from scratch

Significant work and knowledge required

in choosing multiple Add-ons and paid

or free support per component

Unstructured SLA and community

support unless it is from local vendors

(very few credible vendors in India)

Document Management reusable with

CIMR and other projects; Hundreds of

pre-packaged Add-ons; Alternative to

Magento and Storefronts

Deliver LDAP and Single Sign on across

enterprise ; User Management

configurations ; More configurations and

lesser development

Enterprise Business level SLAs and

Support vital for high business impact

brand initiatives and new ventures

Lot of plumbing of components is

required for achieving business use cases;

Absence of Workflow and repository for

which have to integrate Alfresco and

other BPM engines

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Liferay is a much evolved Product with support for a very

wide variety of platforms and operating systems all within

an enterprise support umbrella

You can create a lot with Liferay

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Horizontal Portal Platform to Develop “Exceptional Digital Experiences” and

Manage Content

Enterprise Application Integration Platform

“Container” for Web platform and diverse experiences such as BI Dashboards, Big Data portals

Simple Web Site with CMS and Collaboration

Employee Intranet & Extranet Platform

Extended Enterprise Service Platforms

Online Community Centric Social Network Platform

Open Source

100’s of “Free

Application

Portlets” to

build Web

Experience

Extensive

Open

Standards

Support

Rich

Integration

and Web UI

Support

Rich Security

Features

Micro Sites

Marketplaces

Liferay is a platform that provides the

capabilities and tools to build compelling

audience engagement experiences and

manage content for the enterprise.

What is Liferay?

Product EcosystemLeading provider of commercial open source portal and social collaboration software –With One Subscription you get

How you can use the Liferay Platform

extensively to Accelerate Digital

Transformation

Liferay can be used for various purposes and the return of

investment for Liferay for customers is huge by using the same

Platform as Digital Engagement Tool, Content Management

System, Document Management , Intranet/Extranet,

Transactional System and a lot more possibilities………….

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Red and White Chakranomics

Blendcraft Pan Vilas

Muskaan

We have already launched several digital

experiences till date using Liferay

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Time to Take Off accelerating

unused and underutilized

capabilities in Liferay

Understanding How to Accelerate

Digital Transformation

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Setup Digital Governance using Multi Site

Environment

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Create Organizational

Information Architecture

for Entire Group

including sub

organizations for a clear

Roadmap for present

and Future Digital

Experiences

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Global Context (Apps, Templates,

Sites)

Productivity

Intranet

Knowledge Management

Analytical Data Presentation

Brand Initiative Sites

Red and White (Chakranomics)

Blend Craft

Pan Vilas

Others

CSR Sites

Muskaan

Bravery Awards

App RepositoryBusiness Division Corporate Sites

Corporate Corporate

IBD

Reuse Present

Architecture to

Host Group Wide

Digital Properties

with “Mobile First”

Approach

Extend

Extend

ECM & WCM

Data &

Systems

CRM

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WebHtmlPDFExcel

MobileMobile WebNativeHybrid

PrinterFAX

Enable Multi-Channel Delivery of Content and Reused Apps

Use CMS Capabilities with Multilingual

ContentFor e.g. Nepal and other territories

WorkflowVersioning

Location &

Language Categories

and Tags

Related Assets

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Use 100’s of Free Liferay Marketplace Apps to extend functionality

across all Digital Experiences;

Make Group wide App repository using the same approach

Digital Content Management Features

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Digital Content Coming Alive

Web Content Publishing

Unified Documents and Digital Media

User Defined Content Categories

Asset Publisher

Rich Text Editors

Web Content Structures & Templates

Digital Content Management Features

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Digital Content Coming Alive

Intelligent Digital Content Search

Integration with MS Office

One Click Page Creation

User Driven Workflow and Approval

Live Content Editing & Scheduling

Virtual Hosting & Vanity URLs

Dynamic Content Tagging

Create Staging to Live CMS Governance

Publishing Content in a

structured governance manner

Summary of

Changes

Publication

Status

Redesigned

Staging Bar

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Lets try not to design the user experience but the overall

“Digital Engagement Product” that creates the experience

Use Persona Based approach for Business to Consumer

Digital Experiences by targeting Content and Apps based on

User Persona

Available as plugin for

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Deliver Personalized User Experiences

Content Targeting and Personalization

User Segments

Suggested Content

Analytics

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Use easy to use Configuration rules to Target Content based

on User Personas identified as part of Product Development

Leverage Mobile SDK to Build Mobile apps very quickly

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Building Native Applications

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What capabilities

will Business

Acquire once

Digital

Transformation

is Accelerated

Capabilities Acquired by Business through

Accelerated Transformation

New Business Model Creation through opening New

channels of delivery and customer services

Significant Increase in Reusable Features

Quicker and Consistent Brand launches and messaging

changes

Real Time understanding of Personas and Customers

Structured Governance and Digital Roadmap

Content Management and Mobile First driven Digital

Standards

Marketplace of published Apps from Multiple vendors

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