<p>When two ecosystems get together, the result can be a bigger landscape. This week, enterprise portal vendor Liferay announced a new partnership with infrastructure provider TIBCO Software that is intended to simplify Liferay Portal's integration with SAP, SharePoint, JD Edwards, Peoplesoft, Lotus Notes, Siebel and other systems.</p><p>Via the partnership, customers can have a portal-based application that connects through TIBCO's ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks platform to backend systems. The companies said this approach, utilizing a new series of Liferay Connectivity Adapters (eC Adapters) with TIBCO's existing ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks adapters and plugins, will provide a "complete solution at a significant price advantage."Creating Integrated Solutions</p><p>The Liferay adapters, available in the third quarter, will be targeted at Liferay's partners, which can now expect to have significant cost advantages in creating turnkey, integrated solutions.</p><p>The Liferay Portal is an open source, enterprise portal that provides content and document management, Web publishing, shared workspaces, enterprise collaboration, social networking and identity management. The company said the portal has more than half a million deployments worldwide, and applications include a self-service portal, knowledge sharing, the creation of dynamic Web 2.0 sites, social networks and enterprise application integration.Affordable Data Integration</p><p><a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/information-management/enterprise-portal-liferay-partners-with-tibco-software-for-lower-cost-backend-integration-020698.php">Keep reading...</a></p>