Day Software

Day Software
	File:Day Software Logo.png
Company type	Public (SIX: DAYN)
Industry	Software
Founded	Basel (1993)
Defunct	29 October 2010
Fate	Acquired by Adobe Systems
Successor	Adobe Systems
Headquarters	Boston, Massachusetts and Basel, Switzerland
Key people	David Nuescheler CTO; Michael Moppert, Founder; Roy Fielding, Chief Scientific Officer; Jean-Michel Pittet, SVP engineering
Products	www.day.com/content/day/en/products.html
Revenue	$27.69 million USD (2007)
Owner	Adobe Systems
Number of employees	Ca. 120
Website	www.day.com

Day Software was an enterprise content management software company headquartered in Basel, Switzerland and Boston, Massachusetts. Day Software was founded in 1993 in Basel.^[1]

Day creates content management infrastructure software in the Day CRX product line and enterprise content management applications in the Day Communiqué product line. Its most important product is Day Communiqué WCM, a Web content management system that is used for public-facing websites and intranets of large corporations such as McDonald's, Avanza and Daimler.

Day is engaged in the content repository API for Java standardization process and contributes to open source software projects such as Apache Jackrabbit and Apache Sling.

Adobe Systems announced a tender offer to acquire Day Software^[2] on 28 July 2010 for US$240 million. The tender offer was successfully completed^[3] on 29 October 2010.

Products

Adobe Web Content Management

Adobe WCM is a web content management system based on CRX for the content repository and Apache Sling as a web framework.

Adobe Content Repository Extreme

Adobe Content Repository Extreme (Adobe CRX)^[4] is a content repository that implements the content repository API for Java (JSR-170). It is based on the open source reference implementation Apache Jackrabbit and serves as the foundation of all other products by Day Software.

Adobe JCR Connectors

With the JCR connectors Day provides a set of software components that allow software developers to access content repositories and content management systems that are not JSR-170 compliant using the content repository API for Java. Examples for content management systems supported are Microsoft SharePoint^[5] and Documentum.^[6] Uses JSR 283 and JSR 170 to display.

Adobe Digital asset management

Adobe DAM is digital asset management system^[7] based on CRX for the content repository and Apache Sling as a web framework. It integrates with Day Communiqué WCM to allow re-use of images, documents, audio and video files from the DAM in the web site.

Adobe Advanced Collaboration

Adobe Advanced Collaboration^[8] contains a Wiki that can be used as a stand-alone product with optional integration into Day Communiqué WCM and a Calendar and Blog component that extend the feature set of Day Communiqué WCM. The Advanced Collaboration product also uses CRX as a content repository and Apache Sling as a web framework.

History

Product history of Adobe CQ

Date	Product
2002	Day CQ 3.5
2005	Day CQ 4.0
2006	Day CQ 4.1
2008	Day CQ 4.2
2008	Day CQ 5.0
2009	Day CQ 5.2
2010	Day CQ 5.3
2011	Adobe CQ 5.4
2012	Adobe CQ 5.5
2013	Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) 5.6
2014	Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) 6.0
2015	Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) 6.1
2016	Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) 6.2
2017	Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) 6.3
2018	Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) 6.4
2019	Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) 6.5

References

External links

[1] Crunchbase Company Profile For Day Software

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[4] CMSWatch on the CRX beta release

[5] EcontentMag.com on the Day Sharepoint JCR Connector

[6] CMSWire on the Day Documentum JCR Connector

[7] Real Story Group on the Day Communiqué DAM release

[8] EcontentMag.com on the Day Advanced Collaboration release

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