Getting Started with Clarity

Founded in 2010, Clarity Vision Solutions is an eyewear manufacturer that has experienced tremendous growth and success in a very short period of time. Clarity's expanding online presence and the need to streamline operations prompted their adoption of the Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP). With Liferay DXP, Clarity aimed to unify their digital environment, enabling them to efficiently manage customer interactions, employee workflows, and partner communications.

Clarity's channel sales team leverages a Distributor Management app for receiving and approving applications in a B2B context. To quickly assess the creditworthiness of potential distributors, this app collects information required for compliance with Know Your Customer (KYC) best practices. Clarity aims to further reduce manual effort and improving efficiency by leveraging headless APIs to extend their review workflow and automate compliance assessment of potential distributors. Producing APIs within Liferay DXP is essential for integrating this addition, empowering developers to build robust and tailored solutions.

Critical Success Factors

As Clarity Vision Solutions considers methods for extending Liferay DXP, their leadership team has identified several critical success factors to measure the project’s overall effectiveness.

• Adapt to the needs of the business: With the flexibility of Liferay DXP, businesses can create digital experiences tailored to their specific requirements. APIs produced through Liferay Objects enable Clarity to adapt the platform to their unique business processes and accelerate development and increase efficiency through low-code data modeling and application development.
• Simplified maintenance and evolution: Clarity recognizes that maintaining and evolving custom apps while keeping them compatible with platform upgrades is a major challenge. Headless APIs offer a solution by integrating with Liferay's core frameworks without modifying Liferay's core, ensuring ongoing stability and compatibility.
• Orchestrate Complex Workflows: Clarity's expanding operations require managing increasingly complex business processes, often involving multi-step tasks, external systems, and various decision points. Liferay's headless APIs enable developers to extend out-of-the-box capabilities by crafting external microservices to perform complex processing. Leveraging client extensions, Clarity can integrate produced APIs with external systems through microservices.
• Provide Broad Technology Support: Clarity aims to assemble a versatile backend team with top talent. Producing OpenAPI compliant headless APIs empowers developers to build diverse services with a wide array of technologies to compose unified applications.

Conclusion

Now that you've learned about Clarity and how Liferay can help them overcome their obstacles, you'll set up the developer environment you'll use throughout the course.