Content Management Matters ™

Spring is a time of change: the plants bloom, the sun stays out, and global CMS companies change their rosters. CMS super star Day Software has brought in a new CEO for the company, Eric Hansen.

David Nuescheler of Day, developers of the once and future JCR standard, will be conducting a session on AJAX and JCR at JavaPolis '07.

The session will occur this Wednesday at the MetroPolis Business Center in Antwerp -- the haven of diamond aficionados and, this week only, the site at which people will shape the future of AJAX.

In particular, Nuescheler will be discussing "repository backed AJAX" (dubbed r-JAX for short).

Through a strategic liaison, Oracle now provides Day's JCR/JSR 170-compliant connectors. This enables integration between third-party content repositories -- like EMC Documentum and SharePoint -- and Oracle WebCenter.

The connectors come from a license agreement from 4Q06.

Oracle WebCenter is -- and we quote -- an "integrated, comprehensive, and standards-compliant user experience platform." Java devs can build AJAX-rich components, portlets and content in an open architecture.

Day's standardized connectors yield access to a standardized API from which companies can manage all organizational content.

In short, the liaison is an enterprise-trawling, Web 2.0 junkie's dream.

Day served as initiator of JSR 170. Last year, it helped develop compliant components for Oracle. A group of global industry experts, led by day, includes Oracle, in addition to IBM, SAP, FileNet and Sun.

Global CMS and infrastructure purveyor Day Software has announced plans to air its suite of Web 2.0 offerings at Gilbane Boston from 27-29 November.

You can catch it all at the Westin Copley, where the Gilbane Boston conference has oft been held.

Global CMS and content infrastructure purveyor Day has added a handful of major contributors, from the annals of open source, to its senior developer team.

Poaching from the resources of the open source movement is an activity of growing popularity. In particular, open source Web CMS offerings are less expensive and increasingly more user friendly than many enterprise counterparts.

You can also count on an enthusiastic, auto-correcting bug-detector: the close-knit open source community itself.

Fast on the news that Oracle plans to acquire BEA Systems for a reported US$ 6.7 billion -- and on BEA's rapid refusal for so paltry a sum -- CEO Michael Moppert of Day released the following statement:

"BEA, as a leader in middleware, makes it the perfect target by a company of Oracle's pedigree. When combined, these two entities will provide customers with a complete stack, from applications all the way down to the lower levels of technology infrastructure.

"This acquisition will solidify and add relevance to Day Software's OEM relationships with both Oracle and BEA."

Day has plenty of reason to feel personally involved in the M&A drama. The company is the enterprise source for JSR 170 and JSR 283, the current and pending standards for content repositories, respectively. Oracle and BEA share leadership roles on the executive committee for the standard.

Day and BEA also have a bit of history in the enterprise content repository field.

This morning, Day -- which just joined IBM's ECM ValueNet program -- announces an expansion of its existing SAP integration capabilities to feature support for SAP NetWeaver Portal 6.0. This means enterprise users can add business content and functionalities into existing SAP NetWeaver Portal environments with Day's out-of-the-box portlets.

These portlets enable managed content, dynamically associated with SAP NetWeaver Portal, to appear in iViews. This also supports presentation capabilities, with available inclusion of portal navigation and TREX search.

Other boons include multi-language support, content sharing, personalization, inter-portlet communication, and support for LDAP and Single Sign-On. Learn more about the offering at the Day website.

Global CMS purveyor Day has just joined IBM's ECM ValueNet partner Program.

This means IBM FileNet P8 users now have access to Day’s Communiqué Web Content Management (CQ WCM) and Communiqué Digital Asset Management (CQ DAM) applications -- a dream package for those seeking a one-stop fix for digital content.

The step also better asserts Day's position an the standardized Java Content Repositories market, as well as web-centric content technologies.

Day's JSR 170 was the premier industry-standard apps programming interface for content repositories. Together, the two companies will develop a JSR 170-compliant content integration module for the FileNet P8.

Government institutions and higher education purveyors have major content issues. Increasingly, they're turning to the pros to help assist them - not a bad deal for the enterprise and Web CMS industries at large.

With this in mind, content infrastructure vendor Day was selected by Oklahoma University to assist in developing the institution's online personality across a user-scape of over 17,000 unique daily visitors.

The sun is shining for Day Software, a company known for its global content management and content infrastructure software and who has just announced the release of its new stand-alone digital asset management solution (DAM).

Part of Day’s Communiqué (CQ DAM) line, CQ DAM is the only content application with native JCR standard-compliance available.

Our global CMS and content infrastructure amigos at Day Software have announced JSR 283, v2.0 of the Content Repository for Java Technology API, to the Java Community Process (JCP).

JSR 283 picks up where JSR 170 left off by enabling large enterprises to manage digital content on a global level.

Day Software just announced financials for Q1, which ended March 31. Promising results yield king-sized expectations for quarters to come.

The financial summary reports a 24 percent revenue increase from 2006, and a net income increase to 38 percent.

Per a bemused joint announcement by Day Software and Quatico Solutions (a leading CMS purveyor), Day was just awarded "Data Migration" certification to the Quatico Content Importer.

What does this mean for you? Little unless you've got legacy data parked in Obtree C4.

The global CMS and content infrastructure providers at Day Software just announced they'll continue providing standardized connectors for leading repositories. We hardly needed reminding considering they've been busy. Of recent note they introduced a new series of content repository services supporting Apache Jackrabbit.

Their most current standardized offering is an interface for EMC Documentum v5.X, which will create stronger interoperability and openness for the large Enterprise Content Management firm.