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.
With a public review of the Content Management Interoperability Specification (CMIS) expected to be announced sometime soon, it's definitely time to check in and see what the various player have been up to.Reminder: CMIS is an OASIS specification. It may well end up as a standard (and we hope that this happens), but it's not there yet. Here's where things stand today.
CMIS Update
Microsoft has played a major role in the development of the Content Management Interoperability Specification (CMIS)
that is currently in the hands of the OASIS working group. Committed as
the team has been, they (including Microsoft) have not provided much
information or examples of how CMIS will work with Microsoft's
SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). Until now.A new MSDN article has
arrived that demonstrates how one can integrate an external document
repository with MOSS (or the free version of SharePoint, WSS) — which
is exactly what the CMIS spec is all about. Our interest piqued, we
took a look and in the following article, we share what we found.