Sometimes a relationship ends, only to be rekindled later with the time is riper. Such is the case with Web Content Management (WCM) vendor Day Software and FileNet

It's been a busy last week in the land of web analytics software vendors.Coremetrics' officially launched Coremetrics 2008 and Omniture announced Genesis 2.

Coremetrics' announcement of its SMB Solutions might have caught some by surprise, considering that this (hosted) Web Analytics solution is often thought of as one of the more complex and expensive web analytics options out there. However, the company says that roughly 35 percent of its clients are in the SMB market and they foresee plenty of growth in that area.

Omniture announced last week a 78 percent in revenues over the second quarter of 2006 and 15 percent over the first quarter of 2007. Much of this growth was driven by international sales that accounted for $8.8 million, or 26% of all revenue. This was a 184% increase over last year. Of course, with growth comes challenges.

Switzerland-based Web CMS vendor Day Software has always prided itself on offering customers additional capabilities for managing image assets. Now the company has built up and rolled out a formal Digital Asset Management (DAM) product called "CQ DAM." This raises an interesting question. What does it mean to manage media assets?

To set the stage, I commend you to a recent podcast featuring an interesting discussion about the European web analytics market, moderated by Lars Johannsen, the Web Analytics Association Coordinator in Sweden.

The 75-minute discussion focused on current challenges facing European enterprises investing in analytics,

Instadia was one of Europe's leading web analytics vendors prior to its acquisition by Omniture in January 2007. The acquisition took Instadia's customers by surprise. Omniture announced that it would migrate Instadia ClientStep installations to Omniture Site Catalyst, as well as retain functionality that led customers to select ClientStep. The success of this effort remains unclear.

Nick Sharp, the VP and general manager for EMEA at WebTrends, recently wrote a piece for mycustomer.com titled "Web Analytics is dead!". The gist of the article is that web marketers should not look at web analytics data in a vacuum, but rather, use it to drive marketing campaigns and solutions. No disagreement with the premise, and as I wrote

Amid all the hype arround the new version of Google Analytics last week, Visual Sciences/WebSideStory did its share to grab headlines by announcing new releases for HBX and Visual Sciences, and officially changing the name of the company from WebSideStory to Visual Sciences.

If you're a North America-based enterprise, would you consider a European web analytics vendor? If you're based in Europe, would you prefer to select a vendor from your country or region? I addressed these and other issues

Well, sort of. The Basel-based CMS vendor trades on the Swiss bourse, and -- fairly or not -- this adds to the air of mystery around the company's operations.

...does it seem like Day has become more interested in their newish repository software (CRX) than their longstanding CMS product, Communiqué?

At the recently held BEAWorld, Day and BEA announced a partnership to deliver a JSR-170 repository connector for BEA's WebLogic Portal.

CMS vendor Day Software is a proposing a follow-on to the JSR-170 Java Content Repository spec.

There is a great deal of momentum around the open-source Eclipse IDE, but as previously mentioned, very few CMS vendors have noticed.