Volkswagen Group Selects Day; Day's Software Communique Becomes Strategic Platform for All Web Initiatives
BASEL, Switzerland & NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--May 9, 2003--Day Software (Swiss:DIHZn.S), a leading provider of integrated content, portal and digital asset management software, today announced that Volkswagen Group, one of the world's largest automobile manufacturers, has standardized on Day Communique for all its Web initiatives, including those of its international subsidiaries.Volkswagen will now be able to create and present business information to all business units, allowing all divisions and locations to leverage the same technology systems and information using the same content infrastructure. The first large-scale project is a new employee portal for Audi AG.
"To effectively manage our corporate wide Web strategy we require a very flexible, open and scalable enterprise content management system," said Carsten Meyer-Trexler, Volkswagen Informatikzentrum.
Raphael Muller, who headed the evaluation team at Audi, added: "After comparing Day's Communique to all of the other major content management systems, we found that Day offered the most innovative and mature and easiest to implement solution. With Day's technology, we will be able to achieve synergies and real advantages in efficiency by unifying our Web properties across the entire Volkswagen Group."
"We are very pleased to be selected corporate wide by Volkswagen Group," said Michael Moppert, CEO of Day. "Day's Communique provides Volkswagen with a robust infrastructure for efficiently managing all digital content, systems, applications and processes throughout their enterprise. With this kind of access to the mission-critical content and information within their company, Volkswagen will have the ability to achieve true business agility."
For more information about Volkswagen and Audi, visit http://www.volkswagen.de and http://www.audi.de.
About Day (www.day.com)
Day is a leading provider of integrated content, portal and digital asset management software. Day's technology Communique offers a comprehensive, rapidly deployable framework to unify and manage all digital business data, systems, applications and processes through the Web. Communique'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 Swiss Stock Exchange New Market (SWX:DAYN) since April 2000. Day's customers are some of the largest global corporations and include Aral, Degussa, Escada, General Electric, Hugo Boss, Six Continents Hotels and UBS.