Day Software

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

Day Software
Public (SIX: DAYN)
ISINCH0010474218 
IndustrySoftware
FateAcquired by Adobe Systems
SuccessorAdobe Systems
FoundedBasel (1993)
Defunct29 October 2010
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts and Basel
,
Switzerland
Key people
David Nuescheler CTO
Michael Moppert, Founder
Roy Fielding, Chief Scientific Officer
Jean-Michel Pittet, SVP engineering
Productswww.day.com/content/day/en/products.html
Revenue$27.69 million USD (2007)
OwnerAdobe Systems
Number of employees
Ca. 120
Websitewww.day.com

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

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

See also

References
  1. Crunchbase Company Profile For Day Software
  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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