Day Software is the ECM pioneer that leading global enterprises rely on for their Web 2.0 content application and content infrastructure needs. Day's Content Repository Extreme (CRX) is the industry's leading Java Content Repository (JCR) that provides unique virtualization services to consolidate legacy repositories and unique cloud computing services to lower IT operational costs. Day's CQ5 platform combines industry-leading Web Content Management (WCM), Digital Asset Management (DAM), and Social Collaboration (SoCo) applications for business leaders in a single, unified suite and won the 2009 InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award for "Best Web CMS".
Day Software is an international company with headquarters in Basel, Switzerland and Boston, Massachusetts, traded since April 2000 on the SIX Swiss Exchange (SIX:DAYN) and "Over the Counter" (OTC) as American Depository Receipts (OTCQX:DYIHY). Day's customers are worldwide leading global enterprises, including Adobe, Audi, Volkswagen, Daimler, General Motors, Nissan, Newsweek, MTV Networks, Virgin Media, University of Phoenix, Intercontinental Hotels Group, and McDonald's.
About Day
Standards Leadership
Since 2001, Day Software has cemented its role as an industry thought leader, initiating and leading an industry-wide initiative to define and implement the standard for accessing content repositories.
That standard is JSR 170 - Content Repository for Java Technology API (JCR). JCR is designed to overcome the challenge of proprietary content repositories, helping companies to dramatically reduce costs, while increasing the efficiency and accessibility of their existing content infrastructure. Day is now helping to define industry standards as an expert group member of phase 2 of JCR, JSR 283. Developed in 2007, JSR 283 is under the continued leadership of Day’s CTO, David Nuescheler, and in recent months has successfully completed the Public Review process.
CTO Nuescheler is also an active committee member of the working group drafting the Content Management Interoperability Specification (CMIS), a new proposed standard submitted to OASIS as a complementary standard to JCR.
Open Source Leadership
In addition to driving industry standards, Day Software has been a leading force in the open source community. Day Chief Scientist Roy Fielding was co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation, author of the Apache Software license, and creator of the Apache web server.
Day's R&D team are strong contributors to the open source world, with a development model based on building true open source communities around key technology advancements that originate in Day R&D through the sponsorship of new projects via the Apache Software Foundation.
Top-level projects such as Apache Jackrabbit (the reference implementation of the JSR-170 standard), Apache Sling (an industry-first REST-based web application development framework), and Apache Felix (an OSGi R4 Service Platform implementation) are examples of Day's unique commitment to open source.
In total, Day Software contributes to over 12 Apache projects and 25 open source projects. www.ohloh.org, an independent website that tracks open source contributions, shows that over 75% of Day engineers are active committers to open source projects, with over 75% of those engineers being ranked in the top 1% of open source developers worldwide.
