Client Overview
US based insurance company
Business Need
The clients existing portal with over 49000 registered users was using Sun WebSpace. Following an acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle, they decided to withdraw support for WebSpace solutions leaving the client in dire need to explore a new portal platform.
Solution
Client approached CIGNEX for the adoption of Liferay 6EE, CIGNEX' pedigree of delivering over 400 Open Source solutions and authoring 5 books on Liferay was instrumental in influencing client's decision. Key features of the Insurance solution include:
- Integration of Liferay 6EE with homegrown application for billing & policy systems
- Metadata stored in application server (MSSQL) resulting to faster retrieval of content & context of data files
- Google like search engine to retrieve content
- Clustered search using Liferay
- Mixed authentication - Server user authentication and LDAP
- Videos hosted in external API (Wistia)
- Mobile protocols enabled for future enhancements
Key Benefits
- Migrated content, videos, images from existing Sun Webspace portal to Liferay without any need for extensions
- Flexible and scalable solution
- Performance of Liferay + Apache loaded content in less than a second
- Reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) through adoption of Open Source technology
