Summit Brings Together Customers and Partners To Discuss Evolving Global Content Management Market
Basel, Switzerland – November 8, 2005 -- Day Software (SWX: DAYN, OTC: DYIHY) today announced the successful completion of the company’s 2005 Global Customer Summit held in Lucerne Switzerland. Customers and partners from around the globe attended the summit sharing best practices and offering insight into the revolution afoot in the global content management market brought about by new standards set forth in the industry.
Day, a longtime industry leader in the JCR (JSR 170) standardization movement, offered customers and partners a chance to hear about trends and learn about strategies to maximize their technology investments and build a content infrastructure that will be future proof. Customers endorsed Day’s approach to native JSR 170 applications, which provides a standard, open interface to a wide variety of content repositories, facilitating the development of fuller content management applications.
Michael Moppert, CEO of Day Software, provided the opening keynote speech entitled, “From Chaos to Commodity, Part I: The Revolution in Content Management” that delivered three main challenges facing enterprises today:
- The volume of Enterprise Content is exploding; Unstructured content – which is difficult to manage – is growing exponentially faster than structured content.
- Content is locked away in proprietary silos and very difficult to access.
- The combination of new technologies with old infrastructure has created highly complex systems which are difficult and expensive to manage and do not scale well
Several of Day’s premier customers including DaimlerChrysler, West LB, TNT, Zimmer, Credit Suisse First Boston to name a few provided in-depth presentations on best practices, deployments and real savings realized using Day’s flagship software, Communiqué.
Day’s CTO David Nuescheler and Day’s Chief Scientist Roy T. Fielding presented From Chaos to Commodity, Part II: Building Content Infrastructure, which provided attendees with first-hand knowledge In addition, the team rolled out new product updates and enhancements and provided a general strategy for the company and technology product
roadmap to customers and partners.
“Day is fully committed to our customer’s success, and this summit was an excellent opportunity for promoting project best practices, sharing strategies and visions, and providing a preview of our new products within our distinguished customer base,” said Michael Moppert, Chairman and CEO of Day.
Sponsors for the event included Day’s strategic partners Acquity, gedas, GFT and Namics.
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