CMIS overview

Open Source ECM

March 2010 - Alain ESCAFFRE

CMIS: Overview of a Rapidly Evolving ECM Standard

mercredi 10 mars 2010

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Why CMIS ?

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ECM Platform: Growing Use Cases

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Capture& Create

Share &Collaborate

Process& Review

Publish& Archive

Search& Find

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ECM Platform: Essential to IT

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• End silos of content and content management systems

• ECM platform as a horizontal IT function:

• secure and manage intellectual and transactional digital assets created and used by enterprise

• Directly tied to business processes


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ECM Platform: Essential to IT

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• Immediate consequence : more content exchanged between your ECM platform and other applications


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ECM Platform: Foundation for Content Applications

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• More electronic document management practices in business processes

• Consequence: More Content Applications

• Specifically designed and tailored for specific vertical business problems


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ECM Platform: Time for New Approaches

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• Customers have new requirements

• Cost models

• Technical capabilities

• Platform flexibility

• Should not limit OS/Database choices

• End of a model where customers are locked to a specific vendor indefinitely


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Summary

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Content App multiplication

Document backbone + SOA

End of vendor lock-in model

Need for standard !


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ECM: Overview of Previous Standards

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WebDAV and ODMA

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• File management oriented : metadata, file locking

• No type management, no query language

• Many implementations, more or less close to the standard (webfolders, ...)


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JCR (Java Content Repository)

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• Fully featured standard : files, versions, locking, query language baseline, ...

• Mature : second version of the specs (JCR 2)

• But :

• Java specfic

• Difficult to gather all vendors and compel to change their existing products to meet standard


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CMIS is here :-)

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• CMIS = Content Management Interoperability Standard

• One standardized API, usable by any application

• “Tower of Babel” of content management, with a language agnostic protocol:

• AtomPub or SOAP, can make dialoging Java, .NET, Python or PHP apps, even old and obscure legacy languages or framework.

• Fast adoption in the ECM market : Nuxeo, IBM/Filenet, EMC/Documentum, Sharepoint, Open Text, Alfresco

• Also WCM (EzPublish, Drupal, Joomla...)


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CMIS Concepts

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IBM/Filenet NuxeoEMC/

Documen-tum

Sharepoint Open Text ...

CMIS client : portal, scanner, other ECM app , Business APP

Document

FolderMetadata

Checkin, Checkout

Versions

CRUD operations

Query : CMISQL

Renditions

Filing

Relations

REST (AtomPub) or SOAP

ACL

CMIS 1.0


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CMIS : A standard designed for development of multi-platform connectors

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• Great introspection capability for connectors

• Capabilities

• URL templates

• Customization (types, permissions, ...)

• Extensions


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Nuxeo Perspectives

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More Connectors and tools for our Customers

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• 2010 and beyond :

• Integration with portals and CMS (such as EZ Publish, Drupal, Sharepoint, ...)

• Connectors for capture tools : scanners, fax, ...

• Connectors for Office tools : Office, Open Office, and for business specific applications, such as AutoCAD, Adobe CS ...

• ... ?


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A Revolution in ECM Platform Requirements

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• ECM platform no longer chosen only because of interest in a specific third party tool

• More applications will be cross-ECM platform ready

• The ECM platform will be chosen for criteria such as

• Reliability

• Security

• Scalability

• Openness of the architecture, maintenance and support...

• Rapid delivery of value and results


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CMIS : Nuxeo Contributions to Standard Evolution

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Nuxeo Involvement

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• Senior R&D support

• Florent Guillaume, Nuxeo head of R&D a lead participant in specifications review - 1.0 in final review stages at March 2010

• Apache Chemistry project:

• Initialization and participation in the development of a set of multi-language libraries to facilitate use and adoption of the standard, under the Apache foundation

• Creation of Utility tools:

• CMIS Shell, Iphone application


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