Join James Falkner, Liferay Community Manager, and Peter Monks, Director of Technology at Alfresco, to discuss the integration of Alfresco and Liferay technologies. Enterprise CMS's and Portal Servers are highly complimentary technologies that are frequently integrated within enterprises. You will also be exposed to use cases behind such integrations.

1. Liferay & Alfresco
Delivering Enterprise
Content Through a Portal

2. Agenda
• Introductions
• Background
• Why integrate Alfresco and Liferay?
• Use cases
• Demo
• Q&A
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3. Speakers
James Falkner – Liferay
Community Manager
Peter Monks – Alfresco
Director of Technology
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4. Maidenhead, UK Global Headquarters Atlanta, US Headquarters
Alfresco is now the largest private,
pure-play open source software
company in the world.
3 million+ downloads of Alfresco community
1700+ customers from 43+ countries
200+ global channel partners
20 consecutive quarters of revenue growth
Founded in 2005
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5. What is Alfresco?
Document
Management
Create, capture,
share & retain
Records
corporate content. Management
Ensure governance,
compliance &
Web Content
retention. Management
Author, collaborate,
approve & publish
Enterprise
to the web. Collaboration
Create,
collaborate, iterate,
Open Source
discuss & discover Platform
content. Build content-rich
apps & websites using
New! Activiti
RESTful APIs and open BPM
standards. Alfresco’s
newest open
source project.
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6. What is Liferay?
• Most popular and widely downloaded
open source portal
o Over 4 Million downloads
and 50,000 downloads per
month
o 46,053 registered users on
liferay.org
o 16,343 forum participants
o 164,342 forum posts
o 50+ active contributors
o 400k Deployments
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7. What is Liferay?
Content and Design and
Presentation Usability
Collaboration Extensibility
Services and Integration
Analytics and
Management
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8. Why Integrate?

9. Benefits of Alfresco
Management of content of any kind, its
lifecycle and processes.
Capture Management
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10. Benefits of Liferay
• Easy to Use, Develop, Integrate
o Develop in any language, integrate any app
• Presentation
o OOTB content and presentation tools
• High Scale Delivery
o Independent scaling of all layers, monitoring
• Personalization, Collaboration, Social
o Easily target content and drive social value
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11. Why Integrate?
Your Site
Alfresco Integrated Liferay
• Focus on the Solution • Focus on the
processes around • Enables process and presentation of
content presentation of content and
content, alongside integration of
applications applications
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12. Use Cases

13. Intranet
• B2E • Social Engagement
• Role-Based • EAI
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14. Intranet
• Uses out of the box components
o Document Library, Asset Publisher
o Collaboration Applications
• Integrates existing applications
o HR, CRM, Other
• Uses common identity/access
• Participation in collaboration activities
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15. Intranet Site – Sample Architecture
IT Infrastructure Audiences
Content
CRUD as
needed
Content
Specialists
ERP, CRM, … Rank & File
Employees
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16. Demo
• Create example site for employees
• Mount CMIS Repository in Liferay
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17. Public Website – Use Case
• Large number of predominantly
anonymous users
o “Web scale” performance requirements for
delivery tier
• Primarily R/O content
o R/W limited to eCommerce, UGC, etc.
• Highly customized LaF
o Brand-specific site design
• Moderate content set size
o Typically only 1,000s – 10,000s content items
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18. Public Website – How Alfresco & Liferay
Integrate
• Editorial process for • Visual presentation
site content of site
o Creation of articles, o Navigation, page
press releases, composition,
product information, personalization,
etc. analytics
o Approval processes, o Performance
publication, etc. optimizations
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19. Public Website – Sample Architecture
Editorial Tier Delivery Tier Internet
Replication
Request /
response
Editors
Site Visitors
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20. Other use cases
• Intranet and public internet are the 2
most commonly seen use cases
o Not the only use cases however!
• Other use cases are typically variations of
these two
o These architectures can still serve as a reference for
other use cases
• Key differentiator is whether content is:
o R/W via portal – closer to intranet use case
or
o R/O in portal – closer to public website use case
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21. Questions?

22. For more information
• Alfresco Community
o www.alfresco.org
• Alfresco Documentation
o docs.alfresco.com
• Liferay Community
o www.liferay.org
• Liferay Documentation
o www.liferay.com/documentation
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23. Continue the Conversation
• James Falkner
james.falkner@liferay.com
@schtool
• Peter Monks
pmonks@alfresco.com
@pmonks
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24. The open platform for
social content management.

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