As businesses continue to grapple with communication and collaboration issues, enterprise portals have emerged as the modern day solution to these challenges, with these characteristics: 1. Support any device, anywhere access to extranet, intranet with speed, relevance, and ease of deployment 2. Provide interactive powerful search and collaboration channels such as forums, chats and gamification with help of secure role based access 3. Overall deployment and maintenance should eliminate costly licensing overheads and provide attractive RoI The different forms of enterprise portals include intranet, extranet, WCM/WEM, knowledge management, collaboration channels, and highly customized portals. They offer value to both internal users (oAuth, SSO and LDAP) and external stakeholders (device agnostic, cloud support and social signals). Among the various options available today, Liferay is unarguably the most preferred choice of enterprise portal development platform for these reas...