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EMC will officially support CMIS with Documentum 6.7
Posted by Nico in CMIS Server, DMS on 1. May 2010
The final release of CMIS 1.0 is coming soon. More and more companies now support CMIS. At the EMC blog Jerry Silver wrote about the upcoming version of Documentum.
Late breaking news: It turns out that the current CMIS download on ECN Labs is already 1.0 compliant, so there won’t be another release in May. Also, the ECN Labs downloads are for preview purposes only. As stated below, official product support for CMIS will be in the Documentum 6.7 release.
Read the full story at the EMC blog
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 »
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.
Overview of ECM Vendors that support CMIS (IBM, EMC, Microsoft, Alfresco, SAP, OpenText, etc.)
Posted by Nico in CMIS Server, DMS on 15. January 2010
Based on the vendors websites and other ressources I’ve created the following overview.
It shows the Enterprise Content Management Systems that will support CMIS. It also shows when they are going to support it.
| Vendor | Product | CMIS Support Timeline |
| Alfresco | Alfresco 3.2 | Available for testing |
| EMC | Documentum | First half of 2010 |
| IBM | Content Manager | Second First half of 2010 |
| IBM | FileNet P8 | Second First half of 2010 |
| KnowledgeTree | KnowledgeTree 3.7 | Available for testing |
| Microsoft | SharePoint Server 2010 | First half of 2010 |
| Nuxeo | Nuxeo DMS 5.3 | Available for testing |
| Open Text | Enterprise Library Services (ELS-Beta) | CMIS connector available now |
| Open Text | Open Text ECM 10 | Mid 2010 |
| Oracle | Oracle Universal Content Management | Not known |
| SAP | SAP DMS | Not known |
| Sense/Net | Sense/Net 6.0 | Available for testing |
Suggestions are highly welcome!
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