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Day Powers American Psychological Association Organization Site; Deployed in Record Time, Practitioner Portal Exceeds Goals.


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Day Software (Swiss:DIHZn.S) today announced that the American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of  Psychological Association's (APA (All Points Addressable) Refers to an array (bitmapped screen, matrix, etc.) in which all bits or cells can be individually manipulated.

APA - Application Portability Architecture
) Practice Organization has implemented the company's flagship software product to assist in converting its practitioner portal into a new, more interactive platform for APA members.

Utilizing Day's Communique, the APA's Practice Organization is creating a communication platform for its nearly 50,000 practitioner members nationwide that provides real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example.  access to a range of information tailored to their specific needs and interests. Additionally, the software provides practitioner members the opportunity to build and manage their own Web sites through the portal.

Psychologists This list includes notable psychologists and contributors to psychology, some of whom may not have thought of themselves primarily as psychologists but are included here because of their important contributions to the discipline.  around the nation rely on the APA's Practice Organization to promote the professional interests of practicing psychologists through a wide range of activities. A communication platform was needed to allow members access to information tailored to their specific needs and interests in psychology's legislative, business and legal arenas. The APA Practice Organization also was interested in implementing a content management system that was flexible, easy to use, and able to manage multiple content sources.

In response to the Practice Organization's desire to have the new portal operational in a short time frame, Day provided quick implementation that, combined with the system's ease of use, led to more than double the number of members anticipated to be online at the end of the first phase.

"Our members really gravitated to the new portal the moment it was launched," said David Nickelson, Psy.D., J.D., Assistant Executive Director, Office of Technology Policy and Projects, APA Practice Organization. "Days technology lets practitioners quickly and easily access the types of information they need to stay competitive in their practice and stay informed about the issues that are important to them."

Day Software provided the content management framework with an open J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems.  architecture, flexibility and scalability that the APA Practice Organization requested for its immediate needs and its future growth plans. Bearing Point served as the implementation partner for the project with Day.

The opportunity for members to use the portal to build and manage their own sites is unique to the project. Day Software provided the necessary content management and transactional functionality for this feature that has become an important member service for the APA Practice Organization. Members can also purchase online education courses through the site.

"At Day, our customers' success is our success," said Greg Walsh, VP Americas, Day Software. "We are so pleased that the APA Practice Organization has already exceeded their goals for the portal project, both in terms of member participation and revenue generation."

About Day

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:DAYN) is a leading provider of integrated content, portal and digital asset management software. Day enables global enterprises needing real-time agility, to deploy mission-critical content management applications on the Web.

Day's customers are some of the largest global corporations including General Electric, UBS UBS Union Bank of Switzerland
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