Liferay Portal 5.2 Released

Liferay, Inc., announced the 5.2 release of Liferay Portal Standard Edition. The open source solution provides enterprises a platform that integrates content management, collaboration, and social networking. Liferay Portal 5.2 includes: Control Panel -  A control panel unifies portal administration in a single interface, simplifying deployment and management of multiple websites, team sites, intranets, and customer portals from a shared Liferay Portal infrastructure (multi-tenant portal); Microsoft Office integration - Users can continue to work from preferred productivity suites. Liferay implements the MS-DWSS SharePoint protocol to allow users to save and retrieve documents to and from Liferay Portal as if it were a SharePoint server; Built-in web content management and a content integration framework - allows users to aggregate and publish existing repository content with new content to create websites and collaborative workspaces (intranets, extranets, team sites); Improved Collaboration and Social Networking - Liferay’s built- in suite of social computing tools allows for multiple forums, wikis, blogs and document libraries to be created and matched to specific user groups or knowledge areas within the same site. Terracotta integration with open source clustering software for Java applications shortens development time and reduces the number of application servers and databases required to support Java infrastructures. Full WSRP1.0/2.0 specification support allows for portal publishing from remote servers and gives organizations the flexibility of shifting operations geographically as needed. http://www.liferay.com