The Price is Right: Liferay CMS

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Liferay got created when gods got upset with the general lack of a quality enterprise class CMS. Liferay is a world class Enterprise Content Management framework that allows you to build apps, portlets among many useful, business purpose solutions.

To start with, Liferay is a Portal, a web platform, a CMS, a social collaboration, enterprise 2.0 supportive environment that many of the top companies in the world use.

This can be made in to a product, a solution, a intranet, a knowledge management portal among many, many useful applications for business.

The business potency of Liferay is enormous and hence is among the most desired enterprise class solutions in the world today.

As part of our Price is right study in CMS, we cannot exclude top tier solutions such as Liferay and still find the study to be complete.

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Case Study: Japanese Software Business Gets Off-the-Shelf, Industry Vertical Products

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A software marketing and support business in Japan engaged Elegant MicroWeb to create an off-the-shelf software solution for small and medium businesses. . The primary objective was to develop Payroll Management, Sales Management, and Financial Accounting Management applications targeted to the Japanese market for various industry verticals.

 

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Ignore the Doom and Gloom: The Right BI Tool Can Deliver the Goods

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There are numerous reasons why a software implementation might fail and the list is too long to cover in this article. But, when it comes to Business Intelligence software, there are some common reasons for failure.

Like many other businesses, your enterprise may have entered into the business intelligence (BI) domain with the belief that, as soon as the BI tool was in place, the organization would be magically transformed into a business running at the speed of light, sidestepping every common business issue and making decisions without error or misstep. The fact is that many companies fail to get the most out of business intelligence, even after spending a significant amount of money and time to implement the solution.

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Top 5 DevOps… Development Operations

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DevOps practices include the creation of a common process for the developer and operations teams; formation of teams to manage the end-to-end provisioning and practices for promotion and release; a focus on high fidelity between environments.We are discussing the top 5 key DevOps in-demand today.1. Application Development Life Cycle Management (ADLM)
This service is about application development & its life cycle management. We achieve this through a suite of technologies and practices that generally includes metadata integration, workflow and process management facilities. The services tie together the management of at least two stages of development, underlying change versions and configurations, and include the ability to customize the process flow of application development, integration and maintenance projects.

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Case Study: Construction, Infrastructure Co. Achieves Integration & High Performance with ElegantJ BI

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A Construction and Infrastructure Company in Saudi Arabia engaged ElegantJ BI to help them simplify a complex ERP structure of transaction and operational data including HR, Finance, Accounting, Purchasing, and Subcontracting data. ElegantJ BI provided a short implementation and training cycle and a 100% browser-based solution suitable for all users, across all locations and departments, and comprehensive technical and end-user training.

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Don’t Rob Your Users: Give Them Good Old-Fashioned Ad-Hoc Analytics

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Today’s business managers and owners are savvy enough to know that self-serve business intelligence is the way to go. Business users need data visualization, monitoring and analysis if they are going to help the organization to achieve the best results and compete in the market. You want to provide true data democracy in your organization and since most BI tools vendors are pitching the benefits of self-serve BI, one might assume that real self-serve BI tools are available from every vendor, but nothing could be further from the truth (so, buyer beware!)

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Commercial Open Source vs. Proprietary Business Intelligence

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Open source BI solutions offer some advantages but there is a long way to go to resolve issues that prevent market adoption. Some open source products are free to use, but vendor support is not free. Other open source BI tools are free for the community edition, but not for the enterprise. Businesses need swift implementation and roll-out, and timely support and should look at Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

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Growing a Small Business

From CMS to eCommerce to Custom Made Applications, small business need all, if not many to both engage, compete and grow in today’s Internet driven markets. What we do is to ensure you have arrived and stay on top using technology as a backbone.

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If You Want to Keep Your Customers, You NEED RWD!

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Responsive web design (RWD) is a buzz-phrase that all tech people understand. But, when you start talking about Responsive Web  Design, Adaptive Web Design, Content First Design, and other mobile concepts, the average business person tunes out (and with  good reason). I won’t argue that it is important for every business person to understand the basic importance of making websites,  applications and online presence a pleasant experience for customers, partners and suppliers. BUT, no technology person should  expect the average business manager or end-user to understand the ins and outs of the process. That’s why we have experts!

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