Content Management Interoperability Services
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.
Microsoft has collaborated with EMC, IBM and other leading software
vendors to create the Content Management Interoperability Services
(CMIS) specification. The jointly developed specification is designed
to simplify interoperability with Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
systems by leveraging existing open standards including SOAP (Simple
Object Access Protocol), REST (Representational State Transfer) and
Atom. To achieve the goal of interoperability between ECM systems
and to facilitate the development of content centric applications, the
following criteria were guiding principles for the development of the
CMIS specification:
EMC Corp., IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp. recently announced a
jointly developed specification that uses Web Services and Web 2.0
interfaces to enable applications to interoperate with multiple
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) repositories by different vendors.
The companies intend to submit the Content Management Interoperability
Services (CMIS) specification to the Organization for the Advancement
of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) for advancement through its
rigorous standards development process. The ultimate goal of CMIS is to dramatically reduce the IT
burden around multivendor, multirepository content management
environments. Currently, customers must spend valuable time and money
to create and maintain custom integration code and one-off integrations
to get different ECM systems within their organizations to "talk" to
one another. The specification will also benefit independent software
vendors (ISVs) by enabling them to create specialized applications that
are capable of running over a variety of content management systems.
Alfresco Software
recently announced the availability of the first Content Management
Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification draft implementation. As
a contributing member of the draft technical specification, Alfresco is
able to offer a draft implementation of CMIS for developers who wish to
explore the draft specification.
Just as the major database vendors standardized on SQL in the
1980's, today's leading ECM vendors have developed a draft
specification with the goal of delivering and enabling interoperability
across content repositories. The draft specification is backed by
Alfresco, EMC, IBM, Microsoft, OpenText, Oracle and SAP.
Just yesterday, some major enterprise content management industry heavy weights — Microsoft, IBM, EMC, Alfresco, Open Text, Oracle and SAP, announced the first ever Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification draft enabling interoperability across content repositories. By creating a common API, companies can develop write-once, run-anywhere, content and social applications.
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