The most valuable features of the solution stem from security, easy functioning, and well-connected features. User management roles and permissions are super reliable. It is a highly scalable tool, specifically when the user has to face a scenario where the content handled grows in volume. Workflow is also a good feature of the tool. Recently, Liferay Objects was launched. Liferay Objects offers low code-no code capabilities, which are really good.

• Flexibility to fit our business requirements under many different scenarios, from simple public web sites to customer or distributor portal solutions and intranets.
• As a J2EE and open source platform, this product allow us to extend its out-of-the-box features such as CMS, sites management, permissions, workflows, security system, mobile framework, etc. We can do this in a well-defined way by using custom plugins developed in Java with standard tools and J2EE specifications.
• Full support for enterprise systems integrations. Liferay allows us to integrate with our company systems, for instance, IAM, EIP, Web Services. It creates custom plugins or uses the OOTB integrations, like Siteminder, LDAP, CAS, SAML, and Amazon S3.
• Flexibility about the ecosystem, as you can choose between many configurations and products for Liferay installation. For example, Database (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL Server), App Servers (Tomcat, JBoss, WebSphere, WebLogic), according to its certificated and supported compatibility matrix.

• Web Content Management
• User Management

I think that manageability is very good and probably the most valuable part of a tool of this type. You can manage pages and you can manage the layout of each webpage. You can create templates very easily — content templates or page templates — and you can manage these in one place. It is a page management area. You do not have to go into management areas separately, you do not have to go to secondary pages to manage the system. So it is very easy for the administrative user.  

It is very scalable. On one deployment, you can create several solutions. It can be a website, it can be a portal, it can be an internal portal or intranet, and it can be a supplier portal. You can create all these various solutions and more on that one platform.  

Customers like it because they do not have separate solutions for all their needs. It is not just for a website, for example. They have a platform that they can use for many use cases at the same time and learn one tool. It is very flexible in that way.  

We have done things like putting two user directories in the portal which would allow us to work with several user groups, different user populations, and different kinds of users. One can be an internal user, one can be a supplier, or one can be a business partner. It gave us a good solution for that.  

There is a little more of a learning curve than you have with a simple tool, but a business user can learn to manage the system as an administrator very easily. Deployment is not too hard. That is why I think the main advantage of this kind of system is manageability.  

The very first and important feature of Liferay is that it is open-source and can be extended as per the requirements.

I would like to mention about the Hooks/Ext plugins that I have extensively used to adapt Liferay as the solution, in order to reach the business requirements.

The document library, built-in Kaleo Workflow engine, and CMS (Content Management System) are very useful features.

They can be modified/extended at any level.

Overall, it provides easy scalability and integration with the third-party system/APIs like OAuth, social media, and Salesforce. In turn, it provides a great benefit by reducing development time and effort.

• Security: Authentication is just plug-and-play. Almost all types of mechanisms under the sun seem to be supported and a few could be used from a marketplace app.
• Authorization: With roles and permission, it is very fine grained to the data-level. The best part is that it provides easy APIs to use for custom apps, the way we want it.
• Themes: We can change practically anything of the look and feel of the portal. Customization is also pretty easy. The framework helps us to keep things separate from Liferay’s code base and yet achieve the desired results.
• Sites, Page and Content Creation: This was a breeze. This was as if I were creating a Word file on my file system and writing content to the Word file. We used it heavily. Not only that, we could bring our content live with ease by embedding JavaScript.
• Collaboration Features: Sharing and collaborating on Wikis and documents became much better by version 6.2, much to our relief.
• Hooks: We did some heavy customizations. Most of the customizations were plug-and-play with hooks. This is a really handy feature for developers.
• I have used other portals, but they don’t let you meddle with the portal. Liferay is different because it lets you do what you want to do with the portal.

There are different angles to this question.

• As a developer, I like the simple and easy method of customization and development of new modules (portlets).
• As a business owner, I like the security it offers along with ready-to-use features it provides.
• Liferay is shipped with more than 50 portlets that include forum, wiki, blogs, and calendar-like modules that make collaboration very easy. It has a very organized, clean, and ‘usable’ control (admin) panel.
• Liferay’s UI, along with the control panel, is very powerful and helps to manage the content on the portal.
• Liferay is a product that has been released with beautiful thinking behind it. When there was no portal to support drag and drop for content placement on pages, Liferay had its head held high with such features that made the user experience better.

The web/mobile/portal integration was one of the features that we found most valuable, primarily because it reduced our development time.

• 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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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.

The most valuable features are the content manager, where you can configure events, the archival and preservation feature, and the workflow feature where before the document is scanned and awaiting approval to be archived, the chief archivist can provide an opinion of whether the content is of preservation value or archival value. He puts a comment in the workflow.

We chose Liferay because it is open-source and that we can make any number of users apply, register into the system and use the system, as opposed to other solutions where the cost is based on user licenses.  This is one of the most attractive features.

Aggregation and personalization (think dashboards) are the really unique selling points of a portal. If you don't need those, you don't need a portal and there will be other libraries or frameworks that are better suited to solve your problem.

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 like Likeray because it's a secure platform.

The look and feel and the user interface are great.

• CMS lets business users to create and manage web content by business users, while maintaining revisions. Liferay enables users to be independent of developers and to be able to manage content within the portal.
• Roles and permissions management gives developers the ability to build persona- and preference-based functionality within the portal.
• Document library
• Plugins, workflows and rules provide flexibility to customize the portal.

Liferay is a good product and can reduce time and cost on project implementation. Liferay opens the door for most problems of our customers. If you have digital problems in your organizations, Liferay already solves more than 80% of them.

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.

I think that it could be interesting to expand the eCommerce capabilities to the B2C sector.

Liferay's social collaboration and the OSGi framework are valuable features.

• Overall modularity in architecture
• OOTB support for SPA
• Enhancements in marketing experience: user segmentation, targeting, analytics, single customer view, enhanced UI, and content management capabilities

API programming and asset publishing are the most important features.

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

I headed up the Accenture Global Portal Practice from 2011 to 2016. I led the delivery of enterprise portals for our customers. Customers liked this portal software platform because:

• No VC funding
• Open Source platform with no stack agenda
• Can run in any existing infrastructure with low cost of adoption
• Over 70 OOTB bundled features
• Open API Architecture allows you to maximize aggregation and back-end integration
• Multi-channel experiences with Liferay themes
• Audience targeting
• In VM Micro-services platform
• OSGi modularized reusable components
• Elasticssearch
• Liferay Experience Language (Lexicon). Fluid, extensible, built on Bootstrap 3, and written in Saas. Keeping is simple, consistent, and efficient
• Business process enabled forms

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.

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

The solution is easy to install.

There's a lot of plugins. It's an enterprise-level solution that is ready to use almost immediately and users can immediately share and collaborate once they've installed the application.

It's one of the best platforms I've used.

The ability to control web content within a structured version system and its unique capability to receive extension modules and plugins. The extension power makes this software a great ally for building new systems.

I usually see this platform as a Swiss Army Knife for building new features. I also see it as a starting point for assembling new systems from modules and apps, just like we do when playing with Lego blocks.

Support for Java 8 and OSGi are also extremely attractive capabilities.

The most loved Liferay DXP feature launched is modularity. The modular approach to implementation helps to add enhancements easily.

The collaboration feature of Liferay is a very nice feature that can help to create a website quickly and easily, even by a non-technical person.

Apart from these, I also like the security features provided by Liferay.

Definitely CMS. Tons of features are available for content management:

• Structures
• Templates
• Application display templates
• Asset publisher
• Staging
• Page management

These features have become well evolved over time.

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 only use it for internal, departmental websites. It helped us migrate our company’s EA website from SharePoint to Liferay.

• Web content management system: Enables non-technical staff to add/update content that is approved by content approvers in a workflow. Staff is trained to create new sites.
• Integration platform: Integrates existing applications so that users are able to access content in one place.

• Portlet development technology promotes re-usability of code (one portlet can be used in many portals).
• Very powerful product for Intranet solutions.
• Multi-instance capability.
• Document management and its permission system is very powerful.

I like most of out-of-the-box features, especially the control panel features.

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

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

• 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 has a built-in WCMS (web content management system) and provides the ability to develop complex portlet-based web applications. That's valuable because it is Java/Java EE-based and open source.

• Scalable
• Easily integrates with other ecosystems
• Fast
• User-friendly
• Speedy development

This product has large a number of out-of-the-box features for collaboration, social integration, audience targeting, and personalization.

I really value the out-of-the-box features (portlets/application), OSGi modularity (in the last version), and tools for developers.

• Social networking
• Document sharing

It allows us to arrange and develop new ideas, then incorporate them into the portal. We can create a one stop information center, so people can access the information from one window. It also allows us to actively receive data from different systems and publish it into the portal.