Liferay is known in the business world as the leading provider of portal solutions. The company has concentrated itself to this practice as they cater to businesses who demand more information to be streamlined. Liferay uses the most popular web technologies such as the J2EE, Java and Ajax so that the application will run smoothly. Businesses who wish to use their services can select from more than 700 pre-set applications. As this program is implemented in an open source platform, subscribers to their service will be able to use the program and create minor changes to customize the application.
On the other hand, Pentaho has been awarded as one of the best open source solutions in BI (Business Intelligence) category. Instead of providing the whole package, Pentaho became a giant in providing businesses critical reporting information. Pentaho is also regarded as an open source leader in business solutions as their products could be used “out of the box” or companies can create their own products based on Pentaho’s open source solutions. As the company integrates more and more information, they are able to analyze the data and give precise reporting in real time. It’s a technology that’s in demand for business as they struggle to understand their customers even better.
Just recently, these companies have announced their partnership, making interpolerability possible between two companies’ products. They will be concentrating on Liferay’s Java programs and Pentaho’s BI solutions. The company has set to release the results of their partnership in early 2008. Even though these companies are fairly new in the business software industry (Liferay, 2000 and Pentago 2002), their partnership is obviously a good move to boost their sales and attract more customers in the process. Each of them has their own greatness that when combined, it creates one powerful product in the process.
There are two good things about their integration. If you take a look at it closely, Pentaho is in for a better deal. First, both companies are in open source, so combining these technologies could be very easy. Businesses should be able to download their services and create changes on these programs as they wish. The second great thing for Pentaho is Liferay’s ability to integrate Ajax in any of their programs. As Pentaho gets complicated in their business reporting, they need Ajax to make things better and more interactive.
Even though Liferay will be using Java as their platform, the companies are also implementing Ajax in part. Combining Java and Ajax mash-ups is even better since it will give more options for the customers. For example, if a business tool is used only offline, or in a local network, they should be able to implement more Java based program. On the other hand, if the product warrants that you have to be connected to the net most of the time; Ajax is the best platform they could use to implement the service. As these products are in open source, it’s really easy to make some changes.
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