This document discusses integrating the Crafter content management system with the Liferay portal. It provides an overview of each system, when integration may or may not be beneficial, and good integration patterns. The document outlines reference architectures for integrating the systems and provides an example integration. It concludes that while Crafter and Liferay both have powerful features, the best approach is to use each system based on strengths and integrate selectively based on use cases.

1. Liferay / Crafter Integration for CXM
April 2016

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Agenda
• Introduction to Crafter Software
• Introduction to Liferay
• When to/not to integrate
• Good integration patterns
• Q&A

3. Crafter

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Award Winning
Open Source Web Content & Experience Management

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● User Friendly Content Authoring
● In-context Preview and Editing
● Multi-Channel Publishing
● Personalization and Content Targeting
● Time-machine like versioning
● Web Analytics Integration
● Site Blueprints
● Internationalization
● High Performance Content Delivery
● Ease of Integration – CRM, ERP, etc.
● On Premise and Cloud Support
Advanced Enterprise WCM Features
● Social, User Generated Content
● Identity management, SSO and profiles
● Multi-tenant infrastructure

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100% Open Source, No Vendor Lock-in
● Open standards
● No vendor lock-in
● GPL v3 license
● All code on GitHub
● Open community
● Open wiki / documentation
● Open issue tracking

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Architecture Deep Dive

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● Websites
● Portals
● Collaboration Sites
● Mobile Apps
● Big Data Solutions
● Social Applications
● e-Commerce Sites
Crafter Use Cases

9. Liferay

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Enterprise Portal Landscape

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Leadership and Growth
○ Liferay is the open source leading portal technology. Recognized by Gartner and other
industry analysts, our portal combines the best of integrations, development, content
management and social collaboration.
Niche Players Visionaries
Challengers Leader
Gartner Magic Quadrant
From Visionary to Leader

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Architecture Deep Dive

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● Portals
● Collaboration Sites
● Websites
● Mobile Apps
● Big Data Solutions
● Social Applications
● e-Commerce Sites
Liferay Use Cases

14. Overlap

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Perspective Differences
LIFERAY CRAFTER
● Too much overlap
● One platform should
suffice
● Use 3rd party libraries
● DO NOT Integrate
Liferay with Crafter

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Perspective Differences
LIFERAY CRAFTER
● Use each solution based
on its strengths
● Separation of concerns
● Best of breed
integration

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Integration Patterns That Don’t Work
Liferay
Crafter
author
publish entire site
render

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Integration Patterns That Work
Liferay
Crafter
author
publish articles
render

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Reference Architecture (Liferay Only)

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Reference Architecture (General)

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Integration Example

22. Demo
(available upon request)

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Summary
● Crafter and Liferay are both very powerful at the platform level
● Feature by feature comparison of both solutions is not productive
● Utilize a use-case based design approach
● Integration is not always the answer...understand the pros and cons
● Good integrations however result in higher ROI especially in the
long-term

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Questions

25. craftersoftware.com