Company:Day Software

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Day Software
TypePublic (SIXDAYN)
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 United States dollar (2007)
OwnerAdobe Systems
Number of employees
Ca. 120
Websitewww.day.com

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 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

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