BitNami Liferay Stack

This provides a single sign in, web based gateway for access to enterprise content and applications such as Liferay.

Liferay is a portal framework that helps streamline business processes by offering a single sign-on, web-based gateway for users. Users are then able to locate content of their interest and access commonly used applications. It lets you to set up personal pages on which the URL can be self defined and user friendly. Liferay portal will also let you have control over sensitive corporate information and functionality that you want to offer to end users. Team collaboration features such as instant messages, wikis, message boards, blogs etc. are also controlled through the administrative functionality. So does the access to organization`s data, content, and information. What makes the package interesting is that it takes into account the newer platforms of today.

The newer platforms that are gaining ground are the virtualized data center and the cloud. These provide options for the IT department that were not available until recently. Including the native installation you get to have three options for deployment. The installers supplied makes the installation easy and quick through just a few mouse clicks only. The stacks installed are self contained and relocatable. Thus more than one copy can be installed in different directories and multiple instances of the same can be run. Deployment on the virtual machine infrastructure is through virtual images and the deployment on the cloud through cloud images. The cloud installation currently works on Amazon EC2 and GoGrid clouds with more to come. Deployment options, build it yourself features make the software quite flexible in how you provide functionality to your end users.

Liferay is a portal framework that has been in development since 2000. It helps to streamline business processes by offering a single sign-on, web-based gateway for users to locate relevant content and easy access to commonly used applications. Liferay is focused on the user experience and allows customization through drag-and-drop portlets, themes and personal pages with a self-defined, friendly URL. The portal also offers control over access to sensitive information and functionality, collaborative tools such as instant messaging, message boards, blogs and wikis, and access to all the organization’s data, content, and information.
Here are some key features of the BitNami Stacks Native Installers:
Easy to Install:
BitNami Stacks are built with one goal in mind: to make it as easy as possible to install open source software. Our installers completely automate the process of installing and configuring all of the software included in each Stack, so you can have everything up and running in just a few clicks.
Independent:
BitNami Stacks are completely self-contained, and therefore do not interfere with any software already installed on your system.
Integrated:
By the time you click the 'finish' button on the installer, the whole stack will be integrated, configured and ready to go.
Relocatable:
BitNami Stacks can be installed in any directory. This allows you to have multiple instances of the same stack, without them interfering with each other.
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