Liferay Portal is the world's leading enterprise open source portal framework, offering integrated Web publishing and content management, an enterprise service bus and service-oriented architecture (SOA) to facilitate application integration, and compatibility with all major IT infrastructures.

A liberal open source license, full suite of support and services, and integration with today's proven technologies add up to the best combination of performance and value in the portal industry today.

LIFERAY ADVANTAGES

• Zero License Fees - Liferay Portal's liberal MIT license requires zero license fees and no reciprocity clauses.
• Open Source- Access to the source code guarantees your portal investment can be developed independently from a third-party vendor or integrator.
• Standards Support - Support for standards ensures that Liferay Portal remains vendor-neutral and maximizes existing technologies and infrastructure. Liferay supports the following standards: J2EE, JSR-168, SOAP / WSRP / Web Services, JSR-170, MyFaces.
• High Compatibility - Liferay Portal's compatibility with major application servers, database servers, and operating systems (over 700 deployment configurations) drastically reduces the initial hardware and software investment required by your portal initiative.
• Pre-Bundled Portlets - Over 60 functional portlets reduce customization costs. Many Liferay users can deploy straight out of the box.
• High-Value Support Contracts - Liferay's support contracts offer a broad range of SLA options for both SMBs and enterprises.

ENTERPRISE FEATURES

• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) -Reap the benefits of accelerated development, re-usable services, and composite applications.
• Security - Liferay uses industry-standard, government-grade encryption technologies including advanced algorithms such as DES, MD5 and RSA. Liferay was benchmarked as among the most secure portal platforms using LogicLibrary's Logiscan suite.
• Single Sign On - Increase productivity by allowing end-users to avoid the hassle of logging in to several applications separately. Liferay offers customizable single sign-on with Yale CAS, JAAS, LDAP, Netegrity, Microsoft Exchange, and more.
• Multi-Tier, Limitless Clustering - Liferay's enterprise scalability handles caching no matter how much hardware is added. Cluster Liferay Portal Enterprise at any combination of multiple tiers - presentation, service, business logic, and database - to meet specific load requirements, one processor at a time.
• High Availability - Maintain zero down time for business critical applications with Hardware/Software Load Balancing, HTTP Failover, Session Replication, and Distributed Cache (using Lightweight Multicast Protocol).
• Page Caching - Increase Web performance with full-page caching for static content.
• Dynamic Virtual Hosting - Extend the potential of the business and community by granting individual community members their own page with a user-defined friendly URL.