Does Your Web CMS Integrate With SharePoint 2010?

By Barb Mosher (@barbmosher) Jun 16, 2010

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Sure SharePoint 2010 (news, site) has built in web content management capabilities. But that doesn't stop of number of WCM vendors from integrating their own solutions with the collaboration platform. After all, we all need options.

Before we get started, I just want to remind you that we are talking about Web Content Management solutions that integrate with SharePoint and how they have done it. We aren't discussing Enterprise Content Management. And if you don't see your name in the list, let me know via the comments. I am interested to hear your integration story.

It's interesting to note that with one exception, all the options discussed below have not yet — at least officially — said their connector solution works with SharePoint 2010. However, considering the connectors leverage SharePoint Web Services, and the APIs haven't changed significantly, it's only a matter of time.

Day Software

Of all the vendors we mention in this article, Day Software is the only non Microsoft Web CMS vendor to provide a SharePoint connector (yes, we know Alfresco does as well, but we aren't talking about ECM).

The SharePoint Connector 2.0, is part of the Day CRX Connectors family. It is a JCR Connector for SharePoint 2007, but with CMIS now official, it is also available as a CMIS connector.

The connector provides the following capabilities, utlitizing SharePoint web services:

Read and write content and metadata to and from SharePoint
Excecute queries on SharePoint
Conforms to security settings on SharePoint content
Recognizes changes made to content within SharePoint

The integration between Day and SharePoint is so seamles that you can actually drag and drop content that resides within SharePoint to content you are developing within the Day content management system.

This connector is for SharePoint 2007.

Ektron

The SharePoint Connector for CMS400.NET has been around in some form since 2008. It is integrated into the menu system within SharePoint.

The connector includes a wizard that walks you through the steps to publish your SharePoint documents to a CMS400.NET website (whether it's an intranet, internet, extranet). The wizard will ask you where within the Etkron CMS400.NET folder structure you want your document to be placed. You must then specify the metadata and categories for that document within the website. It doesn't look like it pulls any of the metadata already associated with the document within SharePoint.

A physical copy of the document is copied into that structure and a link is retained to the original version in SharePoint. You can delete the website copy if you want place the document into a different folder structure. If you update the document within SharePoint you need to re-publish it to the website to ensure the latest version shows up there.

The connector currently works for SharePoint 2007.