Day News & Articles

Day Software (news, site) announced the nominations of Barry Bycoff and David Arnott to the Board of Directors. Elections for both nominees are scheduled to take place on May 19, 2009, at Day's Annual Shareholder meeting in Basel, Switzerland.

Bycoff brings to the table over 25 years of experience in the computer and software industry. Bycoff's track record is extensive and includes Venture Partner at Pequot Ventures and founder of Netegrity, which was acquired by Computer Associates for approximately US$ 450 million in 2004.

Arnott is currently a member of the Executive Committee and Chief Financial Officer of TEMENOS Group AG, a provider of banking systems, with over US$ 400 million in FY08 revenue. Arnott's professional background includes Chief Financial Officer of Socieete Europeenne de Communication and senior finance positions at Anglo-American plc.

Day's performance hasn’t always been stellar. However, we've seen some bright and sunny days, too. We've also witnessed a recent shake-up on Day’s executive level, including the addition of new CEO Erik Hansen, CFO Richard Francis, CMO Kevin Cochrane and others.

The company seems to be going though positive organizational changes and productive growing pains. Cautiously optimistic, we're looking forward to seeing how these two possible additions to the Board may help steer the company in the right direction.

Ever thought Vignette was way too expensive for your content management heart's desires? Now, there may be a way to rethink this.

Today, Vignette Corporation (news, site) announced new licensing models for its web content management solutions, including a subscription-based model.

Each year KMWorld publishes the top 100 knowledge management companies "with attitude." Relying on feedback from colleagues, analysts, system integrators and the vendors themselves, the annual list spotlights organizations that demonstrate a commitment to customer-driven innovation and exceptional market agility.

Below, a shortlist of industry standouts -- and why they made it this year.

Still going strong, Day Software has announced the second half and end of 2008 financial results.

Restructuring costs, CQ5 investments, changes in the management team, high R&D spending and several other factors affected Day’s balance sheet. We see bright spots here. Let's take a closer look.

Day Software released three new editions of CRX, Day’s famed JSR-170-compliant Java Content Repository (JCR). These new goodies will make some developers and CIOs salivate -- especially those looking for leaner content infrastructure solutions based on Day’s commercial implementation of Apache Jackrabbit and Apache Sling.

In a nutshell, developers get free access to the CRX; and enterprises can get the CRX cheaply, on the pay-as-you-go model. Is that all? Not really. The impact on the entire Enterprise and Web Content Management industries may be a lot larger.

Our hearts are thumping and adrenalin levels are high as we tell you about the just-released Day’s CQ5 WCM. To get as close as possible to a real-life experience, we went ahead and installed the software from scratch and played with it for a couple of days. It was a fun ride.

Without further due, let’s jump in and see what Day came up with after three years of WCM silence.

Mere days before the long-anticipated CQ5 release, Day presents interim financial results for Q3 2008.

The very Web 2.0-esque CQ5 is currently scheduled to be generally available on November 17. We will tell you more about CQ5 next week (downloading the software for evaluation as we speak).

In the meantime, let’s count Day’s Swiss francs. The company reports increased revenue and presses ahead with market expansion, mainly in Northern Europe.

Overall revenue for the first nine months of 2008 increased by 9% to CHF 20.0 million compared to CHF 18.3 million in the same period last year. Overall revenue increased by 16% compared with the second quarter of 2008.

Revenue from licenses for the nine months until September 30, 2008, amounted to CHF 7.8 million compared to CHF 6.7 million for the same period last year.

Losses were reduced to CHF 524,000 compared to the previous quarter. The technical efforts poured into CQ5 were a cost factor. The cash reserves increased to CHF 16.2 million.

Day’s senior management welcomed new members, including Richard Francis as new CFO and Kevin Cochrane as new CMO.

Not enough good news? How about Gartner placing Day in the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise CMS as a visionary?

While everything on Day’s side seems to be quite optimistic at the moment, we will continue to watch the company and report the news to you.

Are you tired of hearing of this draft CMIS thing yet? Content management software companies aren’t. No rest until everyone comes up with something CMIS-compliant. Most recently, EMC released an updated CMIS-compliant version of its Documentum ECM platform.

CMIS is still in the draft, pre-born stage, but everyone wants a piece of it. Reminds us of the SharePoint saga, only MOSS is already bearing lotsa $$$ behind it.

In CMIS case, it’s all about interoperability and inter-CMS-ial, inter-repositorial camaraderie. Kind of like an Enterprise CMS socialism.

It’s a Swiss treats day for a Swiss vendor. Enterprise CMS provider Day Software has received the Swiss Open Source Award 2008 in the business category.

Recipe for success? Mix two tablespoons of Day with several pounds of a new chief marketing officer, who has arrived from Interwoven via the open source devout Alfresco. And, voila! The open source awards will follow.

Day’s recently-onboarded CMO Kevin Cochrane tells us all the glorious details about this award and (much) more — including, why he left Interwoven and Alfresco.

Other content management vendors have two choices when it comes to SharePoint — join it or beat it. The product is entrenched at the departmental level, nevertheless aspiring competitor, Alfresco, think they can uproot enough MOSS to make business sense of a full assault. Others seek harmony. Day Software is one of these. And their latest claim is that they can help SharePoint grow from department collaboration to enterprise content management.

Day Software, a provider of global content management and content infrastructure software, recently announced the company’s financial results for the first half of 2008. Overall, things are going well for the company, but there is still room for improvement.

Day Software, well known for their Communiqué content management solution, has just released the latest version of their Content Repository with some interesting new enhancements.

These enhancements provide enterprise level implementations with more advanced backup and recovery, higher performance and scalability and increased development capabilities.

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).