Introduction to Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS)

By Mike McNulty

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What is a Content Management System?

Application used to create, edit, manage, search and publish various kinds of digital media and electronic text.

Commonly a web based application Frequently used for storing, controlling,

searching, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation

content managed may include computer files, image media, audio files, video files, electronic documents, and Web content.

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Problem: Integrating 3rd Party Applications on a client’s Content Management Systems

There are many CMSs All have different interfaces which can change at

every release. Its complicated and costly to maintain various

versions of your Application It is expensive to hire a consultant (MS, Oracle,

SAP, IBM) to help with a client integration. Its difficult to determine which CMS you should

build your product on.

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Solution: Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS)

“standards proposal consisting of a set of Web Services for sharing information among disparate content repositories that seeks to ensure interoperability for people and applications using multiple content repositories”

“Platform, Language & Protocol Independent “Core common functions of CMS” “Easy to install on existing repositories”

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EXAMPLE

Stela Application

WEB SERVICES

CMIS CMIS CMIS

EMC Documentum

IBMFileNet

MicrosoftSharepoint

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Why Follow the standards?

Reduce Time & Cost to Integrate & Maintain customer deployments of your application

Increase Stela Marketability and Positioning Open up CMS Reselling Opportunities

(increase profit margins with minimal effort) Increases Partnership Opportunities with large

software providers Increases International Visibility, particularly

with customers of large software providers

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Who is CMIS compatible with?

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Who developed the standards?

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Is anybody in charge of CMIS?

CMIS is Registered for public comment with the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)

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Who leads the ECM Market?

set to acquire

2007 2008

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Question Period & Videos

What Stela Products would be best suited for CMIS? Search? BI? EKP?

… Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83tt0LgZudA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhoTOTl6phc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFaSjSAj0-U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxMM-7gVf2o