ECM (Enterprise content management ) - is a set of technologies used to capture, store, preserve and deliver content and documents and content related to organizational processes. ECM tools allow the management of an organization's unstructured information, wherever that information exists.
ECM employed the technologies and strategies of content management to address business process issues, such as records and auditing, knowledge sharing, personalization and standardization of content, and so on.
Open source enterprise content management vendor Alfresco really doesn't strike you as a vendor that likes to stay in the
shadows. Quite the contrary actually. And the work they have been doing
on CMIS — the Content Management Interoperability Specification —
proves it. Their goal — and they aren't being subtle about it — is to
the first Enterprise CMS that is fully CMIS compliant.
There From the Beginning, Almost Although
the first official announcement regarding the new proposed CMIS
specification came from Microsoft, IBM and EMC, Alfresco was there
almost from the beginning. And they have been the most vocal about what
they have been doing to implement the proposed standard: