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Sensus Uses Liferay to Strengthen Their Global Web Presence
October 25th 2011
Rivet Logic Corporation 1800 Alexander Bell Drive Suite 400 Reston, VA 20191 Ph: 703.955.3480 Fax: 703.234.7711
Presented By Alaaeldin El-Nattar Principal Architect Rivet Logic Corporation
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• Award-winning professional services focused on enabling: • Collaboration and Community Platforms • Enterprise Content Management • Web Content Management and Portals
• Using Leading Open Source Software
• Company Facts • Headquartered in Reston, VA • Regional Offices in Boston, New York City, Los Angeles • Near-shore Development Center in Costa Rica
Rivet Logic Overview
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Rivet Logic and Liferay
• Certified Partner since 2006 • Platinum Partner • Conduct Public Training on East Coast USA • Contributor (various means) • Host of first ever East Coast User Conference in 2009 • 25+ Liferay implementations
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The Sensus Challenge
• Disparate messaging around products and solutions
• Each region has their own CMS
• US/Canada have a custom built CMS
• Maintainability issues
• Flexibility issues
• Integration with external systems is tough
• Content localization is not possible
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Sensus.com 1.0
• US/Canada website
• Inflexible look and feel
• Inflexible product and solution structure
• Did the job but couldn’t grow to meet the global needs
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Sensus.com 1.0 Global Sites
• Look and feel inconsistency
• Lack of control over messaging around products and solutions
• Inability to manage regional content separately
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THE REQUIREMENTS
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The Information Architecture
Country Country
Division Division
Product Line
Product Line
Product Product Product
Sensus.com
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Relationships & Associations
Division
Product Line
Country
Product
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THE SOLUTION
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Liferay Communities (Sites)
US/Canada
China
Germany
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Dynamic Web Content
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Localization
• Liferay natively supports localization
• All portal content will be localizable
• One tool for all regional authors
• Same content can be authored in multiple languages
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THE CHALLENGES
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Liferay Challenges
• Sensus needed the following:
• Human readable URLs
• One page per solution
• One page per division
• One page per product line
• One page per product
• Product line and product navigation
• Geolocation
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Liferay Challenges
Division
Product Line
Country
Product
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Liferay Challenges
• Liferay’s default URLs are not good enough
• Liferay allows for creating custom friendly URLs
http://sensus.com/web/usca/solution?id=advanced-metering-infrastructure-ami
http://sensus.com/web/usca/solution/advanced-metering-infrastructure-ami
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THE CUSTOMIZATIONS
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Divisions Page
Division Summary
Division Tab
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Division Page
Division Overview
Product Lines
Product Line
Navigation
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Product Line Page
Product Line Overview
Associated Solutions
Products
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Product Page
Product Overview
Product Documentation
Associated Solutions
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Solutions Page
Solution Summary
Expands Dynamically
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Solution Page
Solution Overview
Associated Assets
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THE MAGIC
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The Basic Concept
• Completely decouple authoring from presentation
• A simple authoring process:
• Authors create content using Web forms
• Authors categorize content
• Content is auto-published to the right spot
• Look and feel is automatically taken care of
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How it works (Authoring)
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Web Form Authoring
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How it works (Categorization)
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P U B L I S H
AMI Systems P U B L I S H
US
AMI Systems
Water
Country
Product Line
Division
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THE DEMO
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Comparison
• Before • Non scalable, proprietary CMS that did
not allow control of design, layout, and most content.
• Did not have flexibility to adapt to continued growth.
• Did not support regionalization, internationalization, and 3rd party integration (Sharepoint, etc..)
• Poor readiness for Marketing (SEO, SEM, micro sites, Salesforce integration)
• Overall a reduced ability to extend our current web offering
• After • Enterprise level solution + community
and enterprise support • Dynamic CMS that meets the needs of
current business and provides flexibility to adapt to future.
• Have infrastructure to support regionalized product offerings and internationalized languages
• Support for 3rd party integration, document management, SSO
• Marketing / content creation ready: SEO, quickly deploy micro sites/landing pages, WYSIWYG editing, drag and drop layouts
• Already looking at ways to expand into other parts of our business (training, document management) due to the flexibility that Liferay offers
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THE FUTURE
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What the future holds
• Sharepoint integration
• Adding global sites to sensus.com
• French
• German
• Content translations on International Site
• English
• French
• Spanish
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Standards & Openness
• Liferay is: • Standards compliant • Easy to maintain • Open source • Highly customizable • Has a healthy community
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Q & A
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Thank You!
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