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Executive Summary
The client is one of the leading agribusiness organizations, serving the needs of more than 300 food and agriculture businesses. The Client’s Portal connects pork producers, consumers and subject matter experts across the world by providing a platform that provides needed information to consumers and producers. Users of the portal can search for information, find reference material and review fact sheets. They can also look for events related to the pork industry. The purpose is to collaborate with its clients, mapping out strategies & goals and winning in a dynamic and competitive industry.
Business Problem
The current application’s objective was to serve a rich user experience on their portal. The client was experiencing problems like less usability, ineffective Content Management system, lack of Advanced Search, and absence of Surveys & Reports. In addition to that, there were other technical issues, which fell short of expectations as outlined below:
- Constraint to upload video, audio or other electronic files as a component of the asset
- Poor response time pertaining to Search functionality
The Client needed a solution, which could improve usability, best usage of Content Management system, enhanced Advanced Search, and provision of Surveys & Reports in order to overcome existing limitations. The Client engaged GSS America for migrating existing portal (Liferay 3.6 to Liferay 4.2.2), adding new functionality and improving the response time of the existing business portal.
The Solution
| Portal Version |
Framework Improvement |
Functionality Added |
Performance Improvement |
| Liferay 3.6 |
Dependent on EJB, was using CMP for persistence and Local Session beans not used |
Content Management not available and Creating Surveys not available |
Usability of the Application not good, Search Response time 45-50 sec and Caching not used effectively |
| Liferay 4.2.2 |
Independent on EJB, Uses Hibernate for Persistence and Local Session Beans used |
Content Management available, Creating Surveys available and Caching used effectively |
Improved usability of the application, Improved Search Response time to 5-10 sec |
Business Benefits
- User retention expected to grow by more than 43%
- Expected number of hits and registrations to increase by 8% and 4% respectively, due to the improved usability and new functionalities like upload of any type of file, Surveys and Content Management functionality (Authoring, Collaborating, Editing, Approval and Publishing)
- Generation of content as PDF on demand preview before publishing
- Improvement in the response time for the Search functionality from 45-50 seconds to 5-10 seconds.
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