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DYIHY News Day Software and McDonald's Win Portal Excellence Award for Best Content Management Application
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Day Software (SWX:DAYN) (OTC:DYIHY), a leading provider of global
content management and content infrastructure software, today announced
that Day and its premier customer McDonald’s
are recipients of the Shared Insights 2006 Portal Excellence Award.
Contest winners were announced today at Shared Insights’
Portals, Collaboration and Content Conference at the Intercontinental
Hotel in Boston, MA. The award committee was chaired by Colin White of
BI Research. Other judges included Theresa Regli of CMS Watch, Zach Wahl
of Project Performance Corporation, Shawn Shell of Consejo, Inc., and
Demir Barlas of Line56 Media. The judges evaluated return on investment,
architectural design and innovative use of the portal technology.
With over 31,000 restaurants in more than 118 countries serving over 50
million people each day, McDonald’s is one of
the most recognized brands on the planet. The company deployed Day
Software’s Communiqué,
the first native JSR 170-compliant enterprise content management (ECM)
solution available, for its worldwide intra/extranet, ultimately
reaching 1.5 million users who comprise McDonald’s
global network of suppliers, employees and franchisees. The McDonald’s
AccessMCD portal has allowed the company to improve publishing
efficiencies by implementing consistent global content management
processes for over 500 content authors. This implementation included the
deployment of multiple sites with localized content using minimal
resources. The solution has the flexibility to adapt to McDonald’s
extensive future online plans.
“In today’s
real-time environment, it is mission-critical that McDonald’s
carry information and messages to our suppliers, franchisees, business
partners and employers as quickly as possible. The global nature of the
company’s business made this a complicated
proposition,” said Michael Moppert, Chairman
and CEO, Day Software. “We were pleased that
Day’s Communiqué
allowed McDonald’s to quickly and reliably
create, personalize, manage and deliver content to the entire McFamily.”
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.
