What is Liferay?
Liferay enables organizations to create, manage, and scale powerful solutions on a flexible Digital Experience Platform (DXP).
Common solutions implemented with Liferay include customer and partner portals, supplier portals, intranets, corporate websites, e-commerce sites, and more.
Liferay's open-source DXP is used worldwide by over 1,200 companies from a wide range of industries, including Airbus, Douglas, KBC Bank Ireland, Société Générale, and Putzmeister.
What are the core functionalities of the platform?
The platform combines several key functionalities aimed at accelerating content creation, optimizing workflows, creating personalized experiences, and driving the digital transformation of companies – including:
Artificial intelligence (AI): Faster content creation, optimized workflows, and contextual support with integrated AI.
Content Management System (CMS): Faster creation, publishing, and management of multimedia content and pages across multiple channels.
Digital Asset Management (DAM): Easier delivery of assets across all channels by managing, organizing, and publishing content in one place.
Commerce: Improved B2B e-commerce experiences through comprehensive product information, simple ordering tools, and product recommendations.
Personalization: Deliver personalized and relevant content through improved segmentation, AI-based recommendations, and A/B testing.
Low-code: Digitize critical business processes with low-code features designed for business users.
Security: Protect your users, data, and solutions with a platform designed for security.
Integration: Easily bring systems, applications, and data together on a single platform.
Why flexibility is the focus?
Because the digital landscape is constantly evolving and every organization's needs are unique, Liferay focuses on flexibility
Flexible platform architecture: Liferay's extensible architecture ensures that organizations can meet their unique business requirements and efficiently integrate existing technologies and data sources.
Flexible out-of-the-box functionalities (OOTB): Organizations benefit from a wide range of OOTB functionalities and composability.
Flexible content delivery: Liferay impresses with headless and hybrid headless scenarios - for even more independence in the tech stack.
Flexible deployment: Thanks to SaaS, PaaS, on-premise, or personal cloud deployment options, companies can decide how much they want to take care of the maintenance and updating of their platform.
What makes Liferay special?
As an open-source platform, Liferay stands for transparency, flexibility, and a lively community that continuously contributes to further development. Unlike many of its competitors, Liferay has grown organically – a development that has resulted in an organic, powerful, and user-friendly platform. In addition, Liferay focuses on long-term partnerships and pursues the vision of bringing about positive change in the world through technology.
