Liferay Portal Core Customizations

The best way to describe Liferay Portal is "a developer's AMUSEMENT PARK"! What you can do with this platform is truly incredible; far more exciting and robust than any playground I can think of! Look, here's the bottom line. Regardless of what portal platform your organization stakes its livelihood on, the fact remains that no single platform or system will exactly what you want, the way you want it done, out of the box. It doesn't matter if you're running Sharepoint, WebSphere Portal, Oracle (insert this year's brand name here), or even Liferay. You will absolutely need to customize things, build something new, change your operations, or purchase another add-on component to fully realize the benefit of the product.

If you run Liferay as a portal platform, you have the flexibility to customize nearly anything you want. Whether it's core functionality, the look and feel to match your company's brand, or adding new functionality, Xtivia can help. Liferay offers its own Software Development Kit (SDK) that was created, designed by, and honed by Liferay Developers. Xtivia leverages this SDK to integrate services, develop themes and page layouts, extend core Liferay functionality, and develop custom hooks for various parts of the Liferay system.

One common example of how Liferay let's you "hook" into the platform is for the authentication process. Nearly every company has its own way of handling authentication and it can be fairly complex depending on the scope of the system. Let's say, for example, you want to use Oracle Access Manager for your Single Sign On (SSO) solution. Oracle Access Manager (OAM) is not supported out of the box. Xtivia can develop pre and post authentication hooks as well as a custom login portlet that will integrate with OAM. Some users may have different "landing pages" they arrive at after authentication. Xtivia experts can implement another hook that ensures your users arrive at the appropriate landing page after they authenticate rather than sending every user to the same landing page.

These are just a couple simple examples of common scenarios we run into on a regular basis. Get started customizing TODAY! Contact us to discuss your Liferay Portal customization requirements.

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