Enterprise portals provide semi-personalized access to important applications from a single screen. Liferay ( a Los Angeles-based company), provides portal technology to organizations, is observing a shift in its business as social, mobile, analytics and cloud is becoming the new foundation of enterprise computing. Building an open source community around its portal platform will deliver more long-term dividends than short-term profits. To know more on this topic, go through the article by Joe McKendrik, author, consultant and speaker specializing in trends and developments.

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