Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), is a comprehensive content management solution for building websites, mobile apps and forms. And it makes it easy to manage your marketing content and assets.
A powerhouse combo for your content and digital asset management needs.
Get personalized, content-led experiences into market faster with Adobe Experience Manager, which combines digital asset management with the power of a content management system.
AEM – History
(Day Communiqué) CQ5 was originally started by a Swiss company Day Software in early 2000 with the name “Communique”. CQ is the short form of “Communique”.
Day Software was acquired by Adobe Systems on 28 July 2010 for US$240 million after Day CQ 5.3 release.
AEM – Many Names
– Day Communiqué WCM – Communiqué – Day Software’s CQ – Adobe CQ – Adobe WEM – Adobe WCM – Adobe Experience Manager or AEM
Day CQ 1.0
Released: Early 2000
Started by a Swiss company Day Software
CGI Scripts for Netscape Enterprise Server
AEM was born
Day CQ 2.0
Released: Early 2000
Standalone application (single binary)
C Programming Language
HTTP Server embedded
File system based page (content) storage
Day CQ 3.0
Released: Early 2000
Communique 2 rewritten as a Web Application in Java
HTTP Server separated out (birth of CQSE)
Content Bus storage (connectors for various file formats, databases, etc
Day CQ 3.5
Released: 2002
Bug Fixes
Bug Fixes
Lot of Bug Fixes
Day CQ 4.0
Released: 2005
Content Bus storage over JCR (CRX 1.0)
Two Web Applications: CRX and CQ
Bug Fixes
Day CQ 4.1
Released: 2006
Bug Fixes
Bug Fixes
Lot of Bug Fixes
Day CQ 4.2
Released: 2008
Bug Fixes
Bug Fixes
Lot of Bug Fixes
Day CQ 5.0
Released: 2008
Rewrite
Complete Rewrite of (almost) everything
Day CQ 5.2
Released: 2009
Bug Fixes
Bug Fixes
Lot of Bug Fixes
Day CQ 5.3
Released: 2009
Bug Fixes
Bug Fixes
Lot of Bug Fixes
Day CQ 5.4
Released : 2011
Day Software Acquired by Adobe and first version of CQ released under Adobe.
Managing Websites for Mobile Devices
Managing the CQ Workflow Inbox on the iPhone/iPad
Authoring with the iPad
Campaigns
Reporting
CRX Clustering
Annotations
Video Component
Carousel Component
Working with Workflows
Forums
Community Console
Profiles
Day CQ 5.5
Released - 2012
New architecture- OSGI based architecture.
New undo/redo functionality while editing content.
New Analytics Framework based on an integration with Adobe SiteCatalyst.
New integration with Adobe Search&Promote.
Improved integration with Adobe Test&Target.
Improved Campaign Manager UI.Integration with Adobe Scene7.
XMP metadata write-back for selected file formats.
CQ DAM Proxy and Proxy Workers.Using a Proxy to Integrate with InDesign Server.
Remote server monitoring and management via Java Management Extensions (JMX).
Page Exporter
Adobe Experience Manager 5.6
Release: 2013
Adobe renamed CQ5 to Adobe Experience Manager
Introduction to Touch UI
Offloading Jobs
Adobe Experience Manager 6.0
Released: 2014
Replaced CQSE with Jetty
New HTML Template language (HTL)- formerly known as Sightly
Jackrabbit Oak (aka Jackrabbit 3)
Upgrade CRX repository from CRX 2.0 to CRX 3.0
Deprecated the concept of reverse replication and introduced UGC (User Generated Content) or social communities.
Touch UI became functional.
New implementation for Social Component Framework (using handlebar JS template Language ).
Adobe Experience Manager 6.1
Released: 2015
Improved Touch UI Authoring interface(usable)
Introduced Cold standby Topology for disaster recovery.
Introduced transient workflows.
Lot of improvements for Touch UI Interface.
Adobe Experience Manager 6.2
Released: 2016
Lot of User Interface Improvements.
Dashboard for Monitoring Queues.
Introduction of content fragment.
Introduced editable templates using template editor.
Adobe Experience Manager 6.3
Released - 2017
Introduction to Production-ready components (Core Components)
Experience fragments
Stable online revision Clean up(online tar compaction)
Bulk workflow
Performance and scale enhancements
Community ideation
Source user generated content3D assets
Asset templates
High-quality file format and color management
Adobe Experience Manager 6.4
Released: 2018
Style System
Short Codes
Experience Fragments Building Blocks and Experience Fragments integration with Adobe Target
AEM – A Peak into its History
Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), is a comprehensive content management solution for building websites, mobile apps and forms. And it makes it easy to manage your marketing content and assets.
A powerhouse combo for your content and digital asset management needs.
Get personalized, content-led experiences into market faster with Adobe Experience Manager, which combines digital asset management with the power of a content management system.
AEM – History
(Day Communiqué) CQ5 was originally started by a Swiss company Day Software in early 2000 with the name “Communique”. CQ is the short form of “Communique”.
Day Software was acquired by Adobe Systems on 28 July 2010 for US$240 million after Day CQ 5.3 release.
AEM – Many Names
– Day Communiqué WCM
– Communiqué
– Day Software’s CQ
– Adobe CQ
– Adobe WEM
– Adobe WCM
– Adobe Experience Manager or AEM
Day CQ 1.0
Released: Early 2000
Started by a Swiss company Day Software
CGI Scripts for Netscape Enterprise Server
AEM was born
Day CQ 2.0
Released: Early 2000
Standalone application (single binary)
C Programming Language
HTTP Server embedded
File system based page (content) storage
Day CQ 3.0
Released: Early 2000
Communique 2 rewritten as a Web Application in Java
HTTP Server separated out (birth of CQSE)
Content Bus storage (connectors for various file formats, databases, etc
Day CQ 3.5
Released: 2002
Bug Fixes
Bug Fixes
Lot of Bug Fixes
Day CQ 4.0
Released: 2005
Content Bus storage over JCR (CRX 1.0)
Two Web Applications: CRX and CQ
Bug Fixes
Day CQ 4.1
Released: 2006
Bug Fixes
Bug Fixes
Lot of Bug Fixes
Day CQ 4.2
Released: 2008
Bug Fixes
Bug Fixes
Lot of Bug Fixes
Day CQ 5.0
Released: 2008
Rewrite
Complete Rewrite of (almost) everything
Day CQ 5.2
Released: 2009
Bug Fixes
Bug Fixes
Lot of Bug Fixes
Day CQ 5.3
Released: 2009
Bug Fixes
Bug Fixes
Lot of Bug Fixes
Day CQ 5.4
Released : 2011
Day Software Acquired by Adobe and first version of CQ released under Adobe.
Managing Websites for Mobile Devices
Managing the CQ Workflow Inbox on the iPhone/iPad
Authoring with the iPad
Campaigns
Reporting
CRX Clustering
Annotations
Video Component
Carousel Component
Working with Workflows
Forums
Community Console
Profiles
Day CQ 5.5
Released - 2012
New architecture- OSGI based architecture.
New undo/redo functionality while editing content.
New Analytics Framework based on an integration with Adobe SiteCatalyst.
New integration with Adobe Search&Promote.
Improved integration with Adobe Test&Target.
Improved Campaign Manager UI.Integration with Adobe Scene7.
XMP metadata write-back for selected file formats.
CQ DAM Proxy and Proxy Workers.Using a Proxy to Integrate with InDesign Server.
Remote server monitoring and management via Java Management Extensions (JMX).
Page Exporter
Adobe Experience Manager 5.6
Release: 2013
Adobe renamed CQ5 to Adobe Experience Manager
Introduction to Touch UI
Offloading Jobs
Adobe Experience Manager 6.0
Released: 2014
Replaced CQSE with Jetty
New HTML Template language (HTL)- formerly known as Sightly
Jackrabbit Oak (aka Jackrabbit 3)
Upgrade CRX repository from CRX 2.0 to CRX 3.0
Deprecated the concept of reverse replication and introduced UGC (User Generated Content) or social communities.
Touch UI became functional.
New implementation for Social Component Framework (using handlebar JS template Language ).
Adobe Experience Manager 6.1
Released: 2015
Improved Touch UI Authoring interface(usable)
Introduced Cold standby Topology for disaster recovery.
Introduced transient workflows.
Lot of improvements for Touch UI Interface.
Adobe Experience Manager 6.2
Released: 2016
Lot of User Interface Improvements.
Dashboard for Monitoring Queues.
Introduction of content fragment.
Introduced editable templates using template editor.
Adobe Experience Manager 6.3
Released - 2017
Introduction to Production-ready components (Core Components)
Experience fragments
Stable online revision Clean up(online tar compaction)
Bulk workflow
Performance and scale enhancements
Community ideation
Source user generated content3D assets
Asset templates
High-quality file format and color management
Adobe Experience Manager 6.4
Released: 2018
Style System
Short Codes
Experience Fragments Building Blocks and Experience Fragments integration with Adobe Target
Structured Content Fragments and Summarization
TouchUI Workflow Editor
Metadata Export and Import
Cascading Metadata Rules
Asset Reports
AEM Smart Tags and Smart Translation Search
Adobe Experience Manager 6.5
Released: 2019
Integrate Adobe Assets with Adobe Stocks.
Brand Portal Capabilities
Adobe Experience Manager SPA (Single Page Application) Editor.
Smart Crop.
Visual Search.
Headless Content Delivery.
Automated Forms Conversion.
Reusing Workflow Across Multiple Adaptive Forms.
Reference:
https://www.adobe.io/apis/experiencecloud/aem.html
https://www.adobe.com/marketing/experience-manager.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_Software
http://www.aemcq5tutorials.com/tutorials/adobe-aem-history/
https://www.netsolutions.com/insights/top-adobe-experience-manager-6-5-features/
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