# About the Discovery Framework

The Endeca Discovery Framework is a portal application, built on the Liferay Portal, that you populate with portlet components.

The Discovery Framework enables rapid configuration of search applications that offer the highly interactive Guided Navigation® user experience across a full range of structured and unstructured enterprise data. Lightweight and easy to deploy, the Discovery Framework is ideal for the development of enterprise-quality search applications. Due to the Discovery Framework's component-based nature, applications built with it are simple to control, adapt, and extend. Granular layout and configuration control let users manage and personalize their own experiences.