Liferay Portal provides a virtual space for team oriented information sharing and collaboration along with a platform for the display of information from across your organization, the internet and different applications. Liferay uses "portlets" to display and manage information and allows you to create a dashboard for the management of the information that is critical to your day to day work. Portlets are like mini applications that use the Liferay Portal framework as the user interface. There are many portlets available and Liferay provides a great development environment for the integration of additional tools and information. You can create custom portlets or take advantage of those created by the Liferay community.