Create Collaborative Hubs at Workspace with Liferay Intranet

Global and virtual offices have created the emerging need for collaboration at work.

Global and virtual offices have created the emerging need for collaboration at work. Organizations are coping up to manage the productivity leakage due to gaps in communication and collaboration. Globalization is a scoring point for business. However, in absence of proper communication and collaboration, it can be time consuming process. In fact time consuming is one aspect of collaboration challenge. Another key aspect is the incurred costs. These figures may not be of substantial relevance, but take a major portion of operating expenses.

Collaboration tools are taking the center stage in the IT infrastructure. Spending on collaboration tools and integrating the same with the core platforms is integral. Considering the current scenario, blogging, forums, articles and document sharing are common ways of sharing knowledge. Liferay based intranet portal is a scalable collaboration platform for workgroups and teams. Intranet is most sought after tool in multi-location organization. Intranet not only connects employees but gives and easy access to storage and document retrieval which is another way of knowledge management in organizations.

Liferay intranets have many ready available features like blogs, forums, document repository which can quickly take care of collaboration. Blogs and document content can be tagged and commented on. With these features, rendered content becomes search-engine-friendly. Liferay Social, an earlier version didn't offer features like content tagging, probably feature of commenting was available.

Ready portlets like recent posts, view counter, comments and my entries are popular among the lot, given the ease of search and visibility they provide. These statistics and ready content is very productive for the system users. If a user is browsing the forum to search for relevant topic, tags in tag cloud or recent comments can be insightful as they will be able to track down the entire threads and comments on it with the name of people who have replied to the thread. This is an easy way to connect to right people. Blogging has been popular since a decade. Bloggers share their experience and knowledge as a reference with other colleagues.

In addition, workflow feature enables in Intranet allows quick connection among teams and workgroups. Visit the link to know more on Liferay based intranet implementations. You can know more about Liferay support solutions at www.cignex.com