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Adobe (news, site) has taken customer experience management a step further today with the announcement of its Digital Enterprise Platform. This is both a re-branding of Adobe Livecycle, and a major architectural change that pulls together a suite of customer experience solutions, that ensures businesses (and in particular marketers) can be more agile and responsive to customers.

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.

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.

The Gilbane conference is about content management, of course. But this year, it’s apparently also all about the people. Frank Gilbane made a quick appearance this morning to acknowledge the people. The facts: This year‘s audience represents 16 different countries and a variety of different industries; a melting pot of people.

Kicking us off from this new angle as the first keynote speaker was Kumar Vora, vice president and general manager of Enterprise, Adobe (news, site).

Adobe Systems, a publishing and design software company, has reported that its quarterly profit fell 7%, but this is still better than what Wall Street has expected.

Higher operating costs and lower interest income contributed to Q3’s lower net profit. But the company is optimistic, as it plans to unveil new Adobe Creative Suite 4.0 in several days.