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As digital advertising grows to an estimated US$ 72 billion market in 2011 measuring, managing and optimizing this spend has become a priority for Adobe. A reorganization announced today puts Brad Rencher, currently in charge of Adobe's Omniture business unit, out front in this domain and overseeing the company's customer experience management (CXM) solutions, largely got via the Day Software acquisition.

Ever since Adobe (news, site) grabbed both Omniture (Sep 2009) and Day Software (Jul 2010), the stage has been set for the company's new role as an enterprise-grade Customer Experience Management (CEM) player.

We sat down with Adobe's CTO of Customer Experience Management, David Nuescheler, to discuss the merging of Omniture, Day Software and Adobe technology, how context choreography is at the core of experience management and how the assets from both Day and Omniture play into Adobe's CEM architecture. This article includes two videos from our interview session.

Today is a day that Adobe customers, and many in the content management industry, have been expecting. Adobe has announced the availability of its Web Experience Management Suite (WEM), a combination of CQ 5.4 and the Online Marketing Suite (i.e Day CQ 5.4 and Omniture). 

In only two years, the Interactive Knowledge Stack (IKS) (news, site) project has released its first working demo of a semantic knowledge engine and is making quite a stir, as early adopters begin integrating it into their content management software. Recent events have also seen part of the results acceptance as an Apache incubator projected named Stanbol. Here's an update.

Not sure which company's logo to use... Goodbye, Day Software, as we knew you. Hello, Adobe WCM/CEM, or Adobe super-duper content authoring, or whatever it is Adobe will rebrand Day to.

The deal is a done deal though, as announced earlier, with more than 98% of shares in Adobe’s pockets. The acquisition is final.

Do you like the idea of offering your customers interactive online statements that drill down into the details? Would you like to kick off automated workflow processes when your customers use those statements? Maybe the idea of mobile-enabled business processes makes you sit up and pay attention? Adobe's (news, site) latest version of its Livecycle Enterprise Suite offers all that and more. Here's a look at what's new.

The Adobe acquisition of Day is nearing its completion, and you may be thinking that Day's days are numbered. But from what we gather, the WCM/WEM/CEM momentum is only building, and while detailed plans for the Day/Adobe roadmap are still scant, attendees at the Berlin event are sure to pick-up some tidbits.

With the Berlin stop for the annual Day Ignite customer and partner summit just a couple of weeks away, you have a chance to get a direct line on what is happening with Day Software's web content management system.

During the 2-day conference you also meet with other customers and share best practices and success stories. Take some time to chat with members of the Day team and provide your ideas and feedback.

The Day Ignite Berlin 2010 event is happening on November 2 & 3rd at Grand Hyatt Hotel in Berlin. Gartner Research Director, Mick MacComascaigh is keynoting the event and will offer insights into the future of the web and mobile channels, as well as ways to measure success. Registration is here.

In one Ignite Chicago panel, Day’s own scientists and experts gathered to address any possible question about Day, JCR, CQ5, CRX and open development coming from the audience starving for answers. Here’s the scoop.

Day Ignite kicked off today in Chicago. The theme of Day Software’s (news, site) Innovation Summit is "get mobile and get social." Equipping every attendee with an iPad helps to reach those goals. The theme was also reflected in Day CTO David Nuescheler’s presentation: What's New with CQ5: Sneak Peek into CQ 5.4.

When the news came out that Day Software was to be acquired by Adobe, many wondered if this was the beginning of the end for the web content management provider. But even with the deal officially signed, Day shows no signs of slowing down.

No better do we see this than with the Berlin stop for the annual Day Ignite customer and partner summit. If you want to know what is happening with CQ5, Day's web content management system, in 2011 and get a peak at the 5.4 release, then this conference is the place to be.

There is a lot of opportunity to meet with other customers and share best practices and success stories working with CQ5. In addition, take some time to chat with members of the Day team, providing ideas and feedback.

The Day Ignite Berlin 2010 event is happening on November 2 & 3rd at Grand Hyatt Hotel in Berlin. Gartner Research Director, Mick MacComascaigh is keynoting the event and will offer insights into the future of the web and mobile channels, as well as ways to measure success.

As previously reported, Adobe (news, site) announced its intention to acquire Web CMS and Social Collaboration maker Day (news, site). The deal is now nearly final with more than 94% of the outstanding shares of Day Software Holding AG in Adobe's pocket.

A flurry of reactions, speculations and pontifications later, we're having a second look at the Adobe + Day deal (Part 1 is here) and it's impact on the industry.

Any acquisition (and there have been quite a few of them lately) in the content management industry usually makes a splash. Today, it was Day's day to stir up the media, analysts, bloggers, twitterati and industry watchers; provoking pontifications around the announced US$ 240 mil. acquisition by Adobe.

Here’s the first look at what the industry was buzzing about and what some of the possible implications of the deal might be -- for Day, for Adobe, for the market.

Following Adobe's enormous acquisition of Omniture, in a deal roughly one-eighth the size, the company has snatched-up Switzerland-based Day Software, a well known (to us) maker of Java-based content repositories and enterprise-focused Web Content Management software, via an all-cash bid of about US$ 240 million.

We’ve been exploring Web Engagement Management (WEM) perspectives lately. This time we look at the role that Digital Asset Management (DAM) plays in engagement. And based on my experiences, I'll put a stake in the ground and say that most organizations and DAM vendors are missing out on the potential DAM+WEM love.