Chapter 1. Introducing Liferay for Your Intranet

Liferay is an enterprise application solution. It provides a lot of functionalities, which helps an organization to grow and is a one-solution package as a portal and content management solution. This book will help you to create an organization intranet portal solution with Liferay. In this chapter, we will look at the following topics:

• The complete features you want your organization's intranet solution to have by the time you reach the end of this book
• Reasons why Liferay is an excellent choice to build your intranet
• Where and how Liferay is used besides intranet portals
• Easy integration with other open source tools and applications
• Getting into more technical information about what Liferay is and how it works

So, let's start looking at exactly what kind of site we're going to build in this book.