Enterprise Information Portals have gradually been turning from the fashion into an indispensable business tool with a united access hub available for employees including business processes management kit and means of information interchange.
Small or big, any merits a prosperous virtual space for sharing and collaboration.
Community Edition. Liferay Community Edition is a standard version mostly used for small enterprises non-sensitive to ongoing feature updates and typically non-critical to high performance. Starting small is a nice privilege for those who make first steps with a far-reaching vision.
Enterprise Edition. Liferay Enterprise Edition is the subscription paid-only portal with an enterprise license perfectly suitable for demanding production environments. Size doesn’t matter if you are enterprise. EE works equally well for all applications.
Intranets leaped at the chance to play a pivotal role as the most suitable communicative systems for the last several years. They are nicely welcomed by both enterprises and small companies being similar to the Internet except for their special access permissions merely to employees within the company.
Siri, what is an intranet?
An intranet is defined, best of all for understanding, as resources available only inside of the corporate network. It is implemented for internal communications mostly with different levels of permissions. There are various portal-like systems that are commonly used by enterprises to handle its operation:
local bug tracking;
continuous integration server;
VCS server (Git, Mercurial, SVN, TFS, Perforce, etc.);
local news portal;
online user management;
HR management etc.
Every system could be developed on a proper platform, except some narrowly specialized resources such as Jenkins, GitLab, JasperReports server, Redmine, etc. At the same time, all of them, typically enough, might become combined under one umbrella by means of Liferay.