Migrating myUWindsor to Liferay Sanjay Chitte Shawn DenHartogh

This Session What is myUWindsor Migration Demo of myUWindsor Features myUWindsor App Leveraging Liferay’s features in the future

myUWindsor Our Portal for: –Applicants –Students –Alumni

History of myUWindsor CGI-Bin Forte based environment –called as sisweb September 2007 Oracle Portal –Web Content aggregator enabling personalization June 2013 Liferay driving our mobile app November 2013 Liferay (internet + mobile)

Why we need new portal Impact of increase in use of Mobile devices Oracle Portal end of life –Oracle purchased weblogic and was realigning their app server and portal strategy Stay at par with UI ( look and feel)

Why we need new portal Oracle Portal (version 10) was not mobile friendly Used java standards based on jdk1.4 JPDK was proprietary –Did not support JSR 286 Meet additional expectations of our clients and departments.

Realigning with change in requirements Internet + mobile and cloud –Implied many instant interactions everywhere Find ways to enhance student engagement and experience

Is it Possible? Students would like relevant information when and where they need Info should help them make decisions towards their needs at university Provide Personalized interactions across all channels

Choices we had Oracle Portal Weblogic/Webcenter –Steep learning curve –Total change form Oracle 10 version –Installation and Configuration time consuming –Not fully in integrated ( 2011/2012 my personal opinion) –Licensing cost is high –Proprietary technology –Training cost is high

Choices we had IBM Websphere? –Licensing cost, proprietary –We have to deal with a new vendor in this space –More training cost because we were not exposed the environment –Steep learning curve for our department

Why Liferay Open Source/Standards, Java based - Extensible with portlets (JSR standard) Well documented Build for integration SSO Granular RBAC Secure

Deciding Factors Proven, enterprise portal platform with 350,000 installations worldwide Lower license cost Easier and cheaper to install and maintain Less time needed to configure, secure and implement –Quick proof of concept enables to try and prove the value before making long term commitments

Deciding Factors Short learning curve Higher customer satisfaction confirmed by Gartner 15,000+ community sharing Liferay experience for free Freedom in software stack (OS, Database, App server) Cluster: Scalable & High Availability

Some methods that I follow Can I install and run the software in 1 hr after the download Can I fully test the features after its up and running Check the forums and public bug reports Check if requests are answered on the forums

Migration plan In our case as mobile initiative had priority we migrated the portlets required for mobile applications Both Oracle portal and Liferay ran in parallel –Liferay feeding mobile and Oracle on internet Decommissioned Oracle Portal in November 2013

Google Analytics Monthly Daily Pattern

Google Analytics 30 % of the Traffic is Mobile --Multidevice support in Liferay Also has google analytics support

Moving Forward Launching Liferay 6.2 in Nov 2014 (Tentative) –Goal is to initiate full virtual presence for students, leveraging the new features of Liferay 6.2

Liferay 6.2 Portlets such as Personal Dashboard, Private sites, Notifications and Liferay sync Responsive Design Multidevice Preview Google Integration –SAML portlet –openAM

What is myUWindsor All-in-one student self service location –UWinCARD –Library –Parking –Registration and other SIS services Directed Messaging Events and news feeds

Demo

Directed Messaging

myUWindsor App myUWindsor app is UWindsor’s mobile ‘portal’ –Android / iOS / HTML5 Mobile app designed to be consistent with myUWindsor web application. –Several features of the mobile app are driven through existing code of myUWindsor Using webviews or webservices –New features on myUWindsor are immediately available in mobile app –New features requested for mobile app are available to myUWindsor

myUWindsor App

myUWindsor App - Courses

myUWindsor App

Leveraging Liferay’s Features

Responsive Design

Virtual Portals / Groups Investigating how to allow academic areas control over group sites and pages –This should require little administration

Questions? Sanjay Chitte Shawn DenHartogh