Jive vs Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)

• Allows you to connect with anybody in the organisation
• Allows you to publish your work and solicit feedback or even direct changes, with some version control

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• OpenSource: Liferay is open source portal framework so developers can easily extend or customize it for their organization or department based on their requirement.
• OutOfBox: Liferay Portal is not only a portal platform. It also provides a 60+ applications and tools included in the form of portlets. These portlets are available out of the box or in the form of plugins.
• MarketPlace: Liferay has it own market place (i.e app store) where developer or contributors are contributing their ideas (application) so community can use it freely (some are paid).
• Enterprise-Ready Portal Solution: It is fully ready to support mission-critical, enterprise applications in an environment configured for multiple redundancies and 24/7 up-times.
• High Availability and High Performance: Liferay Portal has been tested to support more than 3,000 concurrent transactions (33,000 simultaneous users) on a single 8-core application server, with mean login times under one second and maximum ½ throughput of 79+ logins per second. Liferay Portal has proven to handle millions of page views and over 1.3 million users.
• Liferay Portal is also deployable to the Cloud and virtual server environments and ensures high availability and performance with: Hardware/Software Load Balancing, HTTP Failover, Session Replication
• Distributed Cache using Lightweight Multicast Protocol
• Terracotta, Oracle RAC, and other scalability solutions

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• Does not allow for much customization
• Mobile app is a kind of clunky and features are a little lack luster
• The main homepage has a lot going on, I would like for it to be separated out better or easier to follow.

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• Portal Security: It has good security model but in few areas it requires improvement.
• Encrypt LDAP passwords on import
• Log in should be via SSL by default
• Upgrade/patch process should include an alert in the control panel
• Add virus scan for uploaded files
• Server Administration
• Garbage Collector should be able to be scheduled to run from the control panel
• Reindexing should be able to be scheduled from the control panel
• Provide GUI to change the default Liferay favorite icon to any desired logo
• LDAP mapping GUI to custom Liferay attributes
• Configurations: Less configurations from properties files and provide more GUI to update from control panel.

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• It's expensive to use as a SaaS solution
• Had a great adoption rate
• Where a buyer is looking for a dedicated/single platform in this market, Jive is often the leading choice.

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• Liferay scales well both in terms of performance but also in terms of operational self-service and eases the burden on IT.
• Compliance, Marketing and Client Engagement teams can create and modify content and submit it for approval. This results in lower operational costs in the areas of new private-label sites and maintenance of current sites because, prior to Liferay, site content management required expensive IT software engineering resources to implement compliance and marketing content changes.

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