Delivering a Global Platform for Healthier Lifestyles with Liferay

Outgrowing a Heritage System

The Vitality program was originally built on a heritage system, but once Vitality’s business requirements changed, it became clear that they needed a new solution, Vitality One. As Chief Enterprise Architect Byron Munday explained, “The turnaround time in making changes to the system became a problem. Time to market was an issue.” Going live in just one country could take up to 18 months. In addition, a laborious translation process left room for error and costly cycles of revision.

Making a Global Impact with Liferay

As Vitality was researching other technology solutions, they came across Liferay. Liferay fit into their plans for making the Vitality One technology stack more open-source and micro-service oriented, with a low TCO compared to competitors.

Important in the ultimate decision to choose Liferay was Liferay’s self-service and localization options that would make rapid market expansion possible. In 2016, Vitality integrated Liferay DXP as a portal application into the Vitality One platform. The platform now enables businesses in countries around the world to track and customize health status and goals, reward incentivization, purchases, gamification, and partner integration. One incentive, for example, involves a unique program that makes it possible for users to pay for an Apple Watch by completing exercise goals.

Learn how Vitality was able to roll out the Liferay One platform to over 20 million users around the world by using Liferay DXP by reading the full case study.