LIVE ELEMENTS COMMUNITY

Adding a social or professional networking community to your website creates a space (private or public) where your members, staff, volunteers, or customers can find and connect with each other and your organization in targeted and meaningful ways:

• find and connect with relevant others through powerful search features
• create special interest groups on the fly or join existing groups
• create home and profile pages to share information and photos
• see who's online and chat live or send a message to their community mailboxes
• create a network of close friends or colleagues
• create interactive blogs
• collaborate via wikis
• control privacy settings to display as much or as little as desired
• scores of additional social media features, with more being developed every day

LIVE ELEMENTS CONTENT MANAGER

Our powerful and easy-to-use content management system serves as the heart and core of your website. Create or edit content yourself on the fly and easily add features, users, pages, and even whole sections in a matter of minutes. And because all our products have been designed to be used and managed by business users, no technical background is required.  

Live Elements CMS includes scores of standard features, and more are being created and enhanced every day. To name a few:

• advanced content personalization based on article tagging and user-defined preferences
• interactive calendars, including event registration and export to Outlook/iCal
• dynamic navigation updates
• powerful advanced searches that search the content of uploaded PDF or Word documents
• tell a friend features
• image, multimedia and document management
• open and moderated forums with ability to subscribe to topics of interest
• rss feeds
• polls/surveys, language translator, news, weather, etc.

LIVE ELEMENTS MEMBER MANAGER

Our powerful member management application provides you with full access to all your user data, allowing you to capture valuable and quanitifiable business intelligence:

• add, view, edit, and delete user records as needed
• export select, targeted user lists and create e-newsletters
• allow users to create and edit their own records, saving yourself significant maintenance time while increasing accuracy
• generate powerful reports from a user-friendly dashboard
• run advanced queries against multiple user critera (i.e. user activity, geographic region, member vs. non-member, recently updated records)

TECHNOLOGY BENEFITS: 

Remarkable Deployment Flexibility
Live Elements Enterprise runs on all major application servers, databases and operating systems, with over 700 deployment configurations;

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Live Elements uses SOA design principles throughout and provides the tools and framework to extend SOA to other enterprise applications.

Ease of Integration and Single Sign-on
Live Elements has been specifically architected to integrate easily with other applications and databases -- and offers customizable single sign-on with Yale CASE, JAAS, LDAP, Netegrity, Microsoft Exchange, and more.

Security
Because it's built on Liferay, Live Elements Enterprise uses standard, government grade encryption technologies including advanced algorithms such as DES, MD5 and RSAf;

High Availability
Maintain zero down time for business-critical applications with hardware/software load balancing, HTTP failover, session replication, and distributed cache.

Data integrity
Allow your users to update and expand their own user records every time they update their profile, providing you with concrete value you can quantify and act upon. 

Standards

• AJAX
• iCalendar & Microformat
• JSR-168
• JSR-127
• JSR-170
• Seats on the JSR-286 (Portlet 2.0) and JSF-314 (JSF 2.0) committees
• OpenSearch
• Open platform with support for web services including:
  • JSON
  • Hessian
  • Burlap
  • REST
  • RMI
  • WSRP
• WebDAV

Technologies Used

• Apache ServiceMix
• ehcache
• Hibernate
• ICEfaces
• Java J2EE/JEE
• jBPM
• JGroups
• jQuery JavaScript Framework
• Lucene
• MuleSource ESB
• PHP
• Ruby
• Seam
• Spring & AOP
• Struts & Tiles
• Tapestry
• Velocity