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Liferay 7 Implementation

An Automotive Company from US

Overview

Our client North America’s Aftermarket commercial vehicle parts provider, wanted a Liferay portal solution to communicate and collaborate, network with other organization members and disseminate plethora of information such as Product news, Product prices discount and rebates information etc.

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Collaboration

Comprehensive Social portal functionality for collaboration, document sharing, Videos, wiki and other content. Video and other huge contents needs to be Shared on Amazon S3 for scalability purposes.

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Partner Hierarchy

The portal needs to be used by their partners, distributors and their resellers and they have very complex partner hierarchy which should be used in setting up permissions and workflow.

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Digital Transformation

Their competitors and industry counterparts had made massive ‘Digital Transformation’ exercise and our client also wants to be on pace with current technology so they can reap substantial benefits which digital society offers.

Requirements

Liferay portal solution to communicate and collaborate, network with other organization members for North American Client Automotive.

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Partner Engagement

The company’s older portal had very low levels of engagement from employees, partners and other members as such they want to improve it, a new, interactive intranet would be the first step in the modernization.

Multi logins

Clients existing portal solution was based on multiple disjointed applications and there was lot of duplication and also these apps required multiple log-ins which was hampering the collaboration effort and productivity.

Content Management

Another challenge was Importing voluminous existing data such as Users, Programs, Price files, Rebate Files, Store locations (Distributors/Resellers) Latitude and Longitudinal values from multiple sources in Liferay Portlets.

Infrastructure Support

The company had very small IT Department and they made conscious decision to not  let it grow to keep costs down and that's one of the reason they choose AWS cloud. And further they wanted continuous support for both Liferay Application and Infrastructure support (AWS Cloud) as well from a company who did the implementation.

User Experience

Our client needs was to support wide range of content types for connecting, interacting and sharing knowledge and working with other members. Also they wanted compelling user experience so it can be adopted widely across all organizations.

Responsive

Portal should be responsive and should work with ease especially in small devices. Few activities which the like the application should excel small devices are Users should be able to filter / drill down or search effectively.

Results

Liferay portal solution to communicate and collaborate, network with other organization members for North American Client Automotive.

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Liferay Audit Module

All user actions/activities in the Liferay portal performed are tracked for auditing purposes with username, timestamp, IP and few other attributes.New Audit dashboard with customizable filters with ability to Export in various formats.

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Video Manager & Viewer

Upload of videos / youtube links based on category and tags. Video viewer with regular filters and search functionality. Integration of Liferay Permissions to control access level to these media. Search the videos, based on varied filters through Elastic-search API. Integration of Media library with Amazon S3 for scalability

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Address book

New Liferay Portlet to search for address, hours of timings and User Contacts etc of the organizations. Also displays other attributes such as Photos of Organization, location Map etc. Users has access to only allowed organizations as per RBAC to see the information.

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Liferay Training Portlet

New Basic Learning Management Liferay portlet which is used for imparting Training to Suppliers, Vendors and their business users. New course or courses which user didn’t took are differentiated with a label ‘New’ . Users get notifications if any new courses are uploaded,

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