Documentum’s APIs vs CMIS
Posted by Nico in General, Presentation on 9. March 2010
I just found an interesting PowerPoint presentation from EMC that describes the difference between the Documentum API and CMIS.
See how Documentum’s web services pulls together CMIS for standards based interoperability and integrations, DFS for building and extending your client applications, and RESTful services for Rich Internet Application mash-ups.
Based on the presentation there are four main Use Cases of CMIS:
- Multi-Repository
- Application + ECM Integration
- Build Once, Use Often
- Migration
The slides offer a general guideline of usage only, as there are no hard and fast rules on which technology should be used when. The PowerPoint presentation can be downloaded here.
CARA – A CMIS based web browser interface to Documentum, SharePoint and Alfresco
Posted by Nico in CMIS Clients on 9. March 2010
Generis offers a full functionality document management web application that provides a single interface to all CMIS-compliant repositories. Based on producers website it is currently released for Documentum , SharePoint and Alfresco. Releases for the file system, FileNet and LiveLink are planed in the coming months. CARA3 connects to the repositories using the very latest CMIS functionality which allows your to build a common set of functionality to be used on the multiple repositories. The stated aim of the OASIS CMIS Technical Committee is “Using Web services and Web 2.0 interfaces to enable information sharing across content management repositories from different vendors”.
The software is built on the Google Web Toolkit. This allows them to build an interface quickly, and most importantly to separate the backend, repository-specific functionality from the user interface, which allowed the user interface to be reusable for multiple repository types. CARA3 provides full authoring, review, approval and publishing functionality to end users together with. Read the rest of this entry »
Four CMIS videos from IBM – Poster Lab
Posted by Nico in DMS, Presentation, Video on 8. March 2010
Jay Brown posted some interesting videos about CMIS. Jay is Systems Programmer at IBM and is dealing with CMIS.
Watch the following four videos if you are interested in:
- Introduction to Poster and Firefox CMIS plugin client
- Serice URL discussion
- Object (and content) creation / deletion
- Versioning and Filing
- Query
- Other collections
Introduction Video
Duration: 2:59 min
Accessing and editing Zoho docs using xCMIS
eXo hosted a webinar to introduce the xCMIS, their new CMIS implementation. During the webinar, Jeremi showed a live demo of xCMIS accessing and editing Zoho docs. He has already converted this into a helpful step-by-step guide with screenshots. Zoho Docs is a central document repository for all types of documents.
The webinar will show you how to access Zoho Docs using the opensource portal GateIn.
Here you can view the recorded webinar:
CMIS experience at CeBIT 2010
This year I’ve been at the CeBIT with my company ARITHNEA. CeBIT is the world’s largest trade fair showcasing digital IT and telecommunications solutions for home and work environments.
We’ve presented our new CMIS module for the Web Content Management System FirstSpirit.
This module is called “DMS connect” and is responsible for the connection to the repositories of Sharepoint and Alfresco using CMIS. The module helps to easily publish documents to websites.
I showed this module to several people. Almost all of them thought that this will bring a big benefit to their publication process.
Since the CeBIT I am really sure that CMIS will become a big success!
PHP CMIS client library v0.3 released
Posted by Nico in CMIS Clients, PHP on 1. March 2010
Version 0.3 of a CMIS PHP client library has just been released.
The project is hosted by the Google Code portal. The source code can be downloaded here. Read the rest of this entry »
CMS FirstSpirit accesses Sharepoint and Alfresco through CMIS
Posted by Nico in CMIS Clients, WCM on 25. February 2010
ARITHNEA just released a new module for the High-End Content Management System FirstSpirit ™ called DMS connect.
DMS connect uses CMIS to connect to different Document Management Systems. The module successfully works with Sharepoint 2010 and Alfresco 3.2. Not all CMIS features have been implemented yet. Within the next weeks it will also be tested against the Nuxeo repository that already offers CMIS. The module is meant to work with all CMIS compliant DMS. This will be tested as soon those repositories are available.
This images shows an editor mask within the web content management.
It is possible to connect to more than one repository with this module. The editors can choose which repository they want to access (red section). This can be easily switched through a drop-down list.
With this module the online editors have direct access to the DMS. They can directly choose the files they want to publish to the website. There is no need anymore to copy documents to the internal media store. This way the document management process stays within the DMS and the editorial process stays in the CMS. This makes web publishing with documents much more efficient. Read the rest of this entry »
Video with EMC CTO Razmik Abnous talking about CMIS
Razmik Abnous, CTO at EMC, is talking about CMIS and the need for this standard.
He talks about the following five different scenarios:
- Content Collaboration / Aggregation
- Content Centric Applications (e.g. BPM, multi-channel publishing)
- E-Discovery
- Archival
- Compound / Virtual Document
The video itself is about 18 month old but still interesting to watch.
WeWebU joined OASIS and its CMIS Technical Committee
Posted by Nico in CMIS Clients on 8. February 2010
WeWebU Software AG is now a member of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) and its Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Technical Committee (TC).
WeWebU already has a software named OpenWorkdesk that acts as a powerful client to different ECM systems. The following ECM systems can already be accessed:
IBM ECM systems:
- IBM FileNet Image Services
- IBM FileNet Content Manager
- IBM FileNet Business Process Manager
- IBM Content Manager (CM8)
- IBM Content Manager on Demand
Other ECM systems can also be supported through JSR 170.
With the coming CMIS adapter, its user-friendly applications will be interoperable with almost every ECM system and usable even for almost every cross-repository scenario. The WeWebU OpenWorkdesk for CMIS will be available in the first half of 2010 with only short delay after the finalization of the CMIS specification by OASIS.
Android CMIS Browser v0.1 b2 is now available
Posted by Nico in CMIS Clients on 7. February 2010
There is a new Android CMIS Browser available.
The Android CMIS Browser currently implements the following functions:
- Browsing the CMIS repository
- Viewing documents (additional viewer apps are required depending on type)
- Sending documents via email
- Search by title or fulltext search
- View document properties
- One configurable CMIS repository (accessed by CMIS Atom Pub Binding) Read the rest of this entry »
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