Adobe has moved from content creation to content management with the US$240 million acquisition of Swiss company Day Software Holding.

The move delivers a stable of products to Adobe that provide Web Content Management (WCM), Digital Asset Management and Social Collaboration offerings.

"Adobe's acquisition of Day represents a key milestone in our efforts toward delivering best-in-class customer experience management solutions to enterprises and governments worldwide," said Rob Tarkoff, senior vice president and general manager, Digital Enterprise Solutions, Adobe.

"With the addition of Day to our enterprise portfolio, we will be able to enhance the value of our offering and deliver on our vision of the web as the hub of customer interaction."

Day's Content Repository Extreme (CRX) is a Java Content Repository (JCR) that provides virtualisation services to consolidate legacy repositories.