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.

Coming soon – iCARA – single app for iPhones, Android phone and Blackberries to access any CMIS repository such as Documentum, SharePoint, Alfresco, LiveLink, FileNet and others.

Generis has been a provider of electronic document management software around the world since 1997. Clients range across industries and include Johnson & Johnson, Pratt & Whitney, Citigroup, Dow Corning, the Department of Homeland Security, Total Oil and 3M.

A similar web browser software based on CMIS is the OpenWorkdesk from WeWebU.

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)

If you like to test this application you need to fullfill the following requirements

• Android 1.6 – 2.01
• External storage (SDCard) for document caching.

This Open Source project is hosted at code.google.com. Click here to download the Android CMIS Browser.

There is a similar browser available for the Iphone. Click here to get more information about the iPhone CMIS Browser.

They have developed an application to connect to Alfresco through an iPhone. I’ve already reported about this here.
They tested their Iphone Appllication against Alfresco Enterprise Edition 3.1 and Alfresco Community Edition 3.2.

Within the webinar they show a demo of the app and they describe how the app works.

Click here to attend the recorded Adobe Acrobat Connect Session .

But in this case it’s an iPhone app to access the Alfresco repository. All of the calls to Alfresco to authenticate and pull content are utilizing Alfresco’s CMIS API.

The Alfresco expert Zia Consulting develops this great app. They will create a Google Code project to make the App available as open source software. There is a placeholder site at www.freshdocs.org already in place as well as a placeholder Google Code project started. Once they determine the licensing for the app and finalize the logo development, they will open up the code.

You can get more information about the app at the developers website.

Fresh Docs Features:

• Browse document libraries
• Full-text search for documents
• View most common document formats, including:
  • Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • Apple iWork files (Pages, Numbers, Keynote)
  • PDF
  • Plain Text
  • Image Files
  • Save “favorite” files to the phone for offline access
    (when cell service and wifi are slow or unavailable)
  • Attach documents to outgoing emails

Check the following iTunes link to get the iPhone app for free.

This is another interesting example for the large variety of clients that can be used to access Document Management Systems.