Over the years, Liferay Portal has transformed into a complete Web platform for social collaboration, Web content management, and development tools to create customized solutions.

The new Liferay Portal 6.1 EE features extensive updates to existing Web content management and document management systems plus new capabilities that are designed to provide more power to end users. Extensive user interface updates will make document management more productive and intuitive, with desktop and mobile access, live previews, and integration to external enterprise document repositories. Liferay 6.1 EE also simplifies the development and maintenance of rich websites, with sophisticated page templates and multiple site and page version editing. The new release also integrates with Liferay Marketplace, which will allow administrators to find and install applications to extend functionality directly from the portal.

“The new Liferay 6.1 EE release matures the 6.x branch with much anticipated implementations that in so many ways completes Liferay as an enterprise-grade product,” says Alaaeldin El-Nattar, Engagement Director and Certified Liferay Trainer at Rivet Logic. “Liferay 6.0 EE introduced several services that opened the door for the development of Auditing, Reporting, Workflow, and other enterprise features, while Liferay 6.1 EE takes Liferay as a leading and powerful portal framework and packages it into a fully functional enterprise ready portal solution. We have been waiting a long time for this release and are very excited about all the client needs that we will now be able to fulfill with relative ease. I am especially looking forward to making full use of Liferay 6.1’s new CMIS support, Document Sync, Website Management, and Mobile support. Cudos to the Liferay team on a job well done.”

To learn more, please visit www.liferay.com.

The holidays are upon us, but that’s not slowing Alfresco, or Rivet Logic, down. Alfresco has already scheduled its first Lunch and Learn series for 2011, taking place in January and February across major cities nationwide, and Rivet Logic is participating in three of them. The topic of this Lunch and Learn? Social Content Management.

The enterprise content management (ECM) market has undeniably evolved over the years. ECM products started incorporating collaboration features (i.e. blogs, wikis, forums, shared work spaces) when Web 2.0 technologies drove organizations to adopt Enterprise 2.0 to enhance collaboration in the work place. Now, with the boom of social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, enterprise content is becoming more social in nature. With millions of pieces of content being generated and circulated every day, ECM can’t stay the same.

So what does this new category of Social Content Management really mean, and how can Alfresco and Rivet Logic help? How can organizations take advantage of social business software, while still maintaining control of its content? Join us at one of the upcoming Lunch and Learn events to learn about these topics and find out why Gartner has identified Alfresco as a key player in this new space.

Rivet Logic will be hosting the following Lunch and Learn events:

Wed, Jan 19 – Los Angeles, CA
Thu, Jan 20 – Irvine, CA
Tue, Jan 25 – Raleigh, NC

To find out more and for a complete list of cities, click here.

We recently released a new case study, Team Beachbody: A Large-Scale Social Community Platform Built on the Open Source Liferay Portal, which highlights how Rivet Logic utilized Liferay Portal to build a revenue-generating social network for Product Partners and the business benefits derived from the solution.

Product Partners, LLC, an exercise and nutrition market leader, launched the Team Beachbody program as a membership-based online support community that offers a wide array of fitness programs. In order to generate revenue growth, Product Partners decided to harness the existing community around its products and combine it with the power of social networking to turn the site into a revenue generating resource. By offering active community members a percentage of sales of Beachbody products that they refer to new members, it encourages increased community participation.

Liferay Portal was selected as the development platform for its flexibility and scalability to cater to evolving business requirements and future growth, as well as its low total cost of ownership. Rivet Logic was chosen as the system integrator to implement the solution, and in particular, the WOWY SuperGym application, a featured element of the overall Team Beachbody experience. The WOWY SuperGym application has resulted in stronger customer loyalty and recurring revenue opportunities through a set of social collaboration features that encourage use and membership retention.

Click here to download the full case study.