Permeance Technologies

Permeance and Liferay partner up Gartner ITXpo Symposium on the Gold Coast

2011-11-14T23:21:54Z

Permeance and Liferay are sharing an exhibitors booth at the Gartner Symposium. This is an awesome partnership - Liferay were recently named a Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products in 2011. Come along and say hi to Paul , Shayne, Michael and Sang; we are located in the Emerging Technology Pavilion.

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2011-11-30T03:04:05Z

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Our wrap of Liferay - East Coast Symposium

2011-11-14T22:09:05Z

Shayne Tanner (General Manager, Permeance) and I were lucky enough to attend the recent Liferay ECS held at the National Conference Centre in Virginia (outer Washington DC). It was a 2 day event that had presentations from Liferay, Liferay partners and specialist product vendors that use Liferay. For Permeance, it was a great opportunity to meet up with the Liferay founders and other key contacts we work with on a day-to-day basis.

This was our first visit to a Liferay Symposium, and while it may seem strange that we were not presenting or using it as an opportunity to meet new customers, our intent was to observe and learn more about Liferay as a company and its people. Of course, any extra knowledge on Liferay portal was always going to be a bonus. In summary, Liferay has built a great company that value quality over profits and truly believe in the spirit of Open Source and embracing community contribution.

While there was no major product announcements at this Symposium for Liferay Portal, it was really interesting to see the great ways organisations around the globe are making use of the product, a good example of this is Endeca's MDEX engine. It was confirmation for me that the work we are doing with Liferay is some of the best in world and that our company has a great understanding and appreciation of the product.

One new key offering announced by Liferay is the introduction of a new Market Place where organisations around the globe can create and sell their product to the Liferay user community. Working similar to other app stores, product creators upload their product, Liferay validate and confirm it's quality and when made available consumers can simply download and install in their portal environment. I see this as a great opportunity to market our capabilities and share some of the experience we have had in tweaking Liferay and integrating other systems.

The symposium was wide reaching with two tracks, one technical and one business focused. Liferay has some great features in their roadmap. One key area of improvement to Liferay is with the Web Content Management system. Our background is Enterprise Content Management so this was music to our ears. Finally, we call Content Structures, Content Types and we can now define a default context for a web content item. The authoring process and overall user experience is to be improved and extensions to the asset publisher supporting content types. Extending search capabilities are welcomed and having the ability to now facet search results will be a blessing to our education clients.

For our developers, there are some very interesting features coming in Liferay IDE and Liferay Studio. Integration with Amazon beanstalk for Cloud developer services has the "cool" factor and simple improvements for productivity e.g. better Alloy UI interaction, I am sure will be welcomed by the development community.

When performance and scalability are always at the front of your mind like it is for the Permeance architecture team, it's great to see Lifeary are working with companies like Azul and are increasing their benchmark testing from 1 million to 10 million users.

The symposium has shown me that Liferay are listening to their customers and community. They are agile and have a release early and release often policy supported by their Community Edition. As an Enterprise Edtion reseller, we want consistent releases with quality and great new features, Liferay gives us both. What we will do now as a company is contribute more back to Liferay in ways of feature requests, changes requests and feature development.

Bryan Cheung, CEO and Founder of Liferay closed out the symposium with a great keynote drawing parallels from other industries to demonstrate Liferays value proposition and their vision for Liferay as the a platform for social collaboration.

So in summary, lets get a symposium scheduled in Australia!

Permeance becomes first Liferay Platinum Partner in Australia

2011-04-14T04:23:39Z

We are proud to announce our Platinum Partner status in conjunction with the official Liferay news release. Permeance have made a significant impact in the Portal and Content market in Australia and we look forward to continuing this growth.

Perth Training a great success

2011-04-14T04:14:42Z

We hosted our first Perth-based Liferay public training last week with great results! Students from as far away as South Korea and Townsville flew into our beautiful city to attend training at the outstanding State Library of WA venue. Portal Administrator and Developer training last week; System Admin training next. If you would like to enrol for this 3 day course email training@permeance.com.au, there are a couple of spaces left.

Next stop for public training; Sydney - May 23-27 for Portal Admin/Developer.

See you there!

Cheers Penny

2011 Training Schedule

2011-01-24T15:24:42Z

2010 was a great year for the Liferay-Permeance training partnership in Australia! Permeance Technologies continues to lead the way as a certified Liferay training partner.

Our experienced training team delivered a range of training sessions from Adelaide through to Rockhampton, Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne. A mix of both public and private events met the high-demand for Liferay training in 2010 for both enterprise and community edition customers.

Liferay training provides a fast-track to best practice and enables students the opportunity to engage with experienced Liferay trainers. In 2011 we are keen to meet the demand for Perth-based training with the three standard Liferay Training modules (Portal Administrator, Developer and System Administrator) being offered there in March to kick-start the training schedule.

Please contact our Operations Manager, Penny Curtis for more information about the 2011 Public Training Schedule and further information about how a private training proposal may also meet your organisations training needs.

Email: training@permeance.com.au OR call +61 8 6262 5432.

Liferay Training - Australia

2010-09-21T03:50:47Z

After identifying a growing need in our region for Liferay training, Permeance Technologies secured the first official Australian Liferay Training Partnership in early 2010.

Our experienced training team delivered the first training sessions in April. Tailored on-site training events have since taken place across a range of client-based locations in Australia, including Townsville, Sydney, Adelaide and Canberra. These clients have both Community and Enterprise Edition licences.

Liferay training is the fastest way to learn the best practices needed to successfully deploy Liferay Portal. We offer all three standard Liferay Training modules (Portal Administrator, Developer and System Administrator), or a combination approach. We look forward to negotiating a best-fit, tailored event for your team.

Please contact our Training Group for a Liferay private training proposal and more information about planned public events for 2011.

Penny Curtis is the Training Delivery Manager.

If you would like to discover more about Liferay Training and how it can support the needs of your organisation, email: training@permeance.com.au OR call +61 8 6262 5432.

Liferay and Education

2010-12-22T05:48:21Z

Liferay and Education, a great fit.

Many Education departments and institutions across Australia are leveraging the strengths of Liferay. There are many reasons for this, but one is the extensive out-of-the-box collaboration suite Liferay offers. Basically Liferay is a perfect fit for education, students and teachers who need to be able to collaborate. This education focus on Liferay is set to deliver great benefits to all users, and the openness of the solution ensures there will be opportunities to leverage development costs and experiences.

Whilst private enterprise wrestles with: Are collaboration tools counterproductive? The education sector are rolling up their sleeves and tucking in.

There is no question Liferay has bought enterprise open source software (OSS) into the fray, alongside the proprietary enterprise heavy weights. Gartner offers their independent view, calling it visionary. And with that Liferay has found a great home in Education, across the globe and especially here in Australia.

Shayne Tanner is the General Manager of our Victorian office.

If you would like to discover more about Liferay and how it can help your organisation, email or call.

info@permeance.com.au OR (03) 9412 7628

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