Cmis News & Articles

It has been a little less than two months since the news of a proposed new enterprise content management standard hit the streets. The Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) spec, created jointly by Microsoft, IBM, EMC and a few other Enterprise CMS providers, was the talk of the town — for better or for worse.

But it’s been relatively quiet these days and we find that strange considering the importance of a standard like this to the industry. Maybe it’s not so important. Maybe it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. Maybe it’s simply a done deal and no one needs to say more…

For organizations who have invested in Oracle Universal Content Management and want to expose its content to other systems and applications, EntropySoft has created a connector just for you. And it’s bidirectional to boot.

Alfresco has just announced the third incarnation of its Enterprise Content Management System. Alfresco Enterprise 3 is what Alfresco CTO John Newton refers to as the completion of the Product Suite that had been envisioned since the company began.

Following the initial introduction of the Content Management Interoperability Spec (CMIS) draft and reactions from Open Text and Alfresco, Day Software didn’t lag behind and responded to the proposed industry standard.

Day thinks that it’s good having a standard that functionally matches on a protocol level to what JCR (JSR170/283) specifies on an API level for Java.

CMSWire had a chance to chat with Day’s CTO David Nüscheler, and here’s what we found out.

We’ve been all over it for the last couple of days now, this new proposed Content Management Specification. But do you really understand what it’s all about and what it could mean to you? EMC wants to be sure you do, so they are having a live Webcast on Thursday, September 18, 2008 and you are invited.

Open Text Corporation, an enterprise content management vendor, pledged its support for the new Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) standard.

The standard’s development is led by three major Enterprise Content Management (ECM) providers — EMC, IBM and Microsoft.

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.

As a contributing member of the draft technical specification, Alfresco is able to offer a draft implementation of CMIS for developers who can peruse and explore the draft specification. In addition, Alfresco also announced the first CMIS implementation with the latest release of Alfresco Labs 3.

It doesn’t come as a surprise that three of the major Enterprise Content Management (ECM) providers — EMC, IBM and Microsoft — have been secretly developing a technical Enterprise CMS specification. Their super secret project is called the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification. A fancy new acronym it is, but beyond this is it really the beginning of a brave new world for content management interoperability?

They are not the first to provide out-of-the box starter solutions for SharePoint, but BlueThread Inc and K2 have certainly put together an ECM bundle that has the full deal. Mind you, you have to buy their software and put it all together to make it work.

Summer’s getting into full swing…and that means more web awards getting moving as well. With open source being such hot topics lately in tech news, this year promises to be a good one. The 2008 Open Source CMS Awards from PacktPub are coming.

Remember those guys who figured out how to hack Vista to allow you to run your SharePoint environment directly on the desktop and not within a vm? Well they are hanging out at Microsoft TECH-ED NORTH AMERICA 2008 this week and they have a product announcement that may interest many SharePoint developers.

It’s called Bamboo MashPoint and it’s a free data integration platform for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Note that important point — it’s for WSS3.0 which means you can start developing and integration enterprise applications into WSS without the need of MOSS and the Business Data Catalog.

Virtual Bridges, a leading provider of desktop and enterprise virtualization solutions for business, has launched version 5 of its Win4Lin Desktop virtualization system for running Windows on Linux. It includes performance increases it claims beats the likes of VMware Workstation and other competitors in the desktop virtualization market.