Liferay Mentoring

Is your team too busy supporting the business to take time out and learn how to work with the Liferay platform correctly? The last thing you need on your hands right now is a system that is overwhelming to administer, slow, or nearly impossible to get deployed in your environment. Liferay Portal is a highly powerful platform that has the capability to save you a lot of money. Xtivia experts can help you tap into this powerful platform and mentor your organization from the top down in how to implement a system that meets your needs.

Xtivia has extensive experience with several leading portal platforms including Liferay Portal, WebSphere Portal, and Sharepoint/.NET. This background allows us to help you make the right decisions from the start and avoid reworking various aspects of your systems. We work directly with your developers, portal administrators, and architects to not only give them an overview of the system, but also act as a sounding board for new ideas they have for solving business problems with the Liferay platform. In a mentoring role, we offer guidance to your team that helps them come up to speed with portlet development, Liferay, and enterprise software / systems architecture in general. This mentoring is not a training session; it's hands on "this is what we are doing to get the system up, running, and customized to meet your needs".

Portal's robust functionality can seem daunting for developers and business analysts when they first start working with the platform. Liferay comes with more than 60 portlets out of the box, its own Developer Studio based on the Eclipse IDE, and runs on all major application server and database platform combinations. The flexibility of this platform is what makes it so powerful, and that can come with a price if you unknowingly make the wrong decisions. You need to uncover which pieces you need to customize and how they will work, which pieces of your internal systems you can / will expose through the portal, what new functionality needs to be implemented, how to make the system work correctly in a highly available environment, etc. While all of these things are going on, you also need to come up with a plan that will bring your existing staff up to speed and start producing as quickly as possible. This is where Xtivia helps bring it all together.

work with business stakeholders as well as the technical side to uncover the Liferay functionality and brainstorm about how it can be used to generate revenue, gain a competitive advantage, or decrease costs in operations. This sets the stage for a much deeper dives with architects and developers on how to make the systems highly available, support the expected load, set up development environments, extend the code base, implement your own portlets, get the build process going, decide on portlet development frameworks, etc.

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