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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
The 2010 iECM CMIS Demo Application is now available
Since a few days the CMIS demo application is available.
Microsoft doesn’t have SharePoint available within the demo yet but they support this demo.
You can upload and search for content within the repositories of the following companies:
- Alfresco
- EMC
- eXo
- IBM
- Nuxeo
I tested the upload of a test1.txt document to all repositories. It worked for all except EMC. There I got an error message. Than I tried to search for the content within the demo. But It didn’t find test1 or CMIS that entered into the document.
Also the search for www.cmis.biz leads to an error. There is still something to do within this demo but it really looks promising.
You can test it at http://aiim-iecm.org
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.
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.
Microsoft has just joined the 2010 AIIM CMIS Demo
I just read it on Twitter by Laurence Hart.
#Microsoft has now joined #EMC, #Alfresco, #Nuxeo, & #IBM in supporting the #AIIM #CMIS demo for #aiim10. #ECM
If you like to know more about the 22010 AIIM CMIS demo or if you like to participate check the following blog post for more details.
The AIIM iECM CMIS Demo 2009
Posted by Nico in CMIS Server, DMS on 28. January 2010
Thomas Pole and Laurence Hart wrote a document about the AIIM iECM CMIS Demo 2009 (iECM is the abbreviation for AIIM’s Interoperable ECM).
Within this document they explain how the CMIS demo was planned and accomplished. The concept was to create a federated search interface that would allow users to search multiple repositories from a single search screen. Several vendors showed interest in assisting the iECM committee and participated on the initial planning calls. At the End Nuxeo, EMC and Alfresco commited themselves to participate to make their repositories CMIS mostly compliant for this demo. This demo has been presented at the AIIM Expo 2009. Read the rest of this entry »
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!
The CMIS Technical Committee is planning a face-to-face working meeting in Boulder
| 4. August 2009 | to | 6. August 2009 |
I just received a notification form OASIS that they planned a face-to-face working meeting in Boulder on 4-6 August 2009. The goal is to produce an official Public Review Draft.
If you want to be part of that meeting you can do that as an active participant or simply as an observer. Therefor you need to be a member of OASIS.
Companies currently collaborating on CMIS include Alfresco, ASG, Booz Allen, EMC, IBM, Magnolia, Microsoft, Nuxeo, Open Text, Oracle, Quark, SAP, Saperion, Sun, Vamosa, Vignette, and other ECM stakeholders.

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