Basel, Switzerland and Irvine, California – November 15, 2005 – Day Software (SWX: DAYN, OTC:DYIHY), a leading provider of global content management and content infrastructure software, today announced the availability of Communiqué 4, the first native JCR (JSR 170) standard compliant enterprise content management solution available on the market today.  Communiqué 4 revolutionizes content management by decoupling the content management application from the underlying repository.

Applications developed that leverage the industry standard API, can run on any JSR170 compliant repository, which represents a revolutionary shift in the content management industry.  Previously, companies found their content locked away in proprietary legacy repositories.  This new standard, of which Day spearheaded within the industry, is focused on the customer by allowing them to access and use their most valuable information, no matter where it resides. Communiqué 4 ships with and runs natively on Day’s innovative java content repository, Content Repository Extreme (CRX).

“Communiqué 4 truly brings customers to the next evolutionary stage of content management – giving them a standardized content infrastructure and unlocking their proprietary legacy repositories,” said David Nuescheler, Chief Technology Officer, Day Software. “Companies will now have greater flexibility with Communiqué 4 allowing them to choose the best-of-breed products that fit their needs.” 

Standard Content Repository
The JCR (JSR 170) standard, initiated and lead by Day, now makes is possible to develop applications using this standard API.  These applications can run on any JSR 170 compliant repository, which completely eliminates the risk of “vendor lock-in”. Communiqué 4 is the first Enterprise Content Management to comply with the new JCR standard and ships with Day’s CRX, a content repository which fully implements the standard.

Reusable Architecture
The Communiqué 4 framework offers a reusable component framework that solves multiple customer challenges with one (end-to-end) integrated solution. By delivering integrated Enterprise Content Management applications, Java Content Repository, and Connection Services, all from a single vendor, Day’s customers can easily and rapidly deploy enterprise applications on the web.  In addition, customers can choose best-of-breed components, allowing them greater flexibility. 

Seamless Migration
Communiqué 4 is a natural continuation of prior Communiqué releases, and provides an easy transition from older releases to Communiqué 4. Existing Communiqué projects can be migrated “in place” with help of an update installer, leaving the existing deployments and architecture intact. Thus, previous applications developed in Communiqué will become JCR (JSR 170) compliant and will be able to leverage the benefits of the standard. Additionally, new projects can readily use the standardized API and can fully benefit from the new technology.

Comprehensive Feature Set

• Complete native JSR 170 repository
• Standard Java Portlet API (JSR 168) is provided to allow integration of any compliant portlet
• Component architecture that allows for reusability of application functionality and rapid development and deployment
• Multi-Site Manager allows for easy control of any number of sub-sites through a flexible mechanism of content inheritance and monitoring of language coherence
• Conditional, parallel, and nested workflows improve business processes
• Communiqué projects can be packaged quickly and easily for “inplace ” distribution and upgrades
• ContentBus resources can be visually displayed as a site tree, web drives and folders, which allow easy access from desktop applications, such as Microsoft Office, that support the WebDAV protocol
• Platform independent spellchecking directly built into Communiqué 4
• High levels of service and availability through clustering with native synchronization
• JSR 170 Eclipse plug-in

Open Enterprise-class Architecture

• Drawing from industry standards, Communiqué 4 is a 100% Java application, and will run as a Servlet inside it ’s own Servlet container or inside J2EE application servers.
• Supported industry standards: XML, J2EE, JSP, Servlet, JCA, EJB, ECMA-Script, LDAP, WebDAV,and Unicode.
• JCR (JSR170) support: Day, as the specification lead of JSR170 and JSR283, delivers a repository, fully implementing this new standard as well as a content management application running on any standard compliant repository.
• Day is also an expert group member for the JSR207 - Process Definition for Java, JSR223 – Scripting Pages in Java Web Applications, as well as, an active participant and implementer in JSR168 – Portlet Specification.

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About Day - www.day.com
Day is a leading provider of integrated content, portal and digital asset management software. Day's technology Communiqué offers a comprehensive, rapidly deployable framework to unify and manage all digital business data, systems, applications and processes through the web. Communiqué's content-centric architecture, and its innovative ContentBus, turns the entire business into a virtual repository, bringing together content from any system, regardless of location, language or platform.
Day is an international company, founded in 1993, and listed on the SWX Swiss Exchange (SWX: DAYN) since April 2000. Day's customers are some of the largest global corporations and include Audi, DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Post World Net, General Electric, Intercontinental Hotels Group, McDonald’s, UBS and Volkswagen.

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