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Liferay portal provides more than 60 out of the box portlets which is far more portlets than any ones provided by other portal vendors. These portlets include collaboration, Content Management System, and administration portlets. And with a support for more than 20 languages out of the box, this makes Liferay suitable for enterprises looking for less time in customization and localization. Liferay is built using Java language and supports the latest Java standards including the portal JSR 168 and 286, JSR-170 for content repository, and JSF 1.0 and 2.0. Also it incorporates popular Java technologies including AJAX, ICEfaces, jBPM, Lucene, Spring, Hibernate, struts, and Velocity. Under these technologies and standards, it is possible to run Liferay portal on all major application servers, databases, and Operating Systems with more than 700 deployment plans. And with its award-winning AJAX-enabled user interface, it is possible for anyone with minimum IT knowledge to customize Liferay portal pages. Liferay portal is also a community-centric portal that provides services for easy creation of extranets, intranets, and social networks with a granular security and role based authorization. And since Liferay is build using an open SOA strategy, it is possible to integrate existing applications like HR, Accounting, and Sales systems into Liferay with minimum effort. Also, Liferay leverage the enterprise by providing Web 2.0 features out of the box like support of open communities, personalization, blogs, wikis, tagging, and RSS to name a few. An enterprise can gain a lot by adopting Liferay. First the total cost of ownership is far lesser than any other portal provided by other vendors due to its unlimited deployment plans, the out of the box portlets, and since it cost nothing to use it. Liferay utilize the open source projects while enhancing the technology in order to achieve this.
 Also, an enterprise can keep the ROI high while gaining business agility with the out of the box portlets that can be added to any portal page with few clicks and they can be integrated with many enterprise infrastructure, like the email server, which make them flexible and agile to use. And with Liferay MIT open source license you can modify any part of Liferay to suit your business with absolutely no cost what’s so ever. This will also protect your investment in the future since your enterprise owns the source code that runs your portal.
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