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Announcing the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Specification

Today represents the start of a new era in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) interoperability as Microsoft, EMC and IBM announced a jointly developed specification that leverages SOAP, REST and Atom to enable communication with and between ECM systems.  The new specification known as Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) defines a platform and language independent means of accessing ECM repositories and will be submitted to OASIS for advancement through its rigorous standards development process.

CMIS Overview

As well as enabling communication between ECM systems, CMIS will also enable rich, content centric applications and mashups to be developed independent of the underlying storage repository.  For more details, you can download a draft of the specification or take a look at Ethan's post on the ECM team blog.

Ryan Duguid
Technical Product Manager
Microsoft Corp

Published Tuesday, September 09, 2008 10:12 PM by sptblog

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# Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) proposed standard announced

Today, EMC, IBM and Microsoft (along with other leading ECM industry vendors Alfresco, Open Text, Oracle

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 12:29 PM by Michael O'Donovan's SharePoint and Stuff

# re: Announcing the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Specification

Give me a break.  Iteroperability means that your clients are able to use your product on multiple platforms.  As it stands, SharePoint has serious cross browser issues and makes life hell for even its IE users.

Throw out some diagram of your "SOA" architecture and make the unsuspecting businesses believe your web services are standard and integration is easy.  I get it.  I keep getting it...  Enough marketing, how about some real progress on interoperability?

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 6:40 PM by Kosher

# re: Announcing the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Specification

Great initiative!

What other teams, except from the SharePoint team, are lookin into this spec? The Office 14 team should definitley have a look at it, since after browsing the specifications I see that WebDAV can be redundant, am I right?

Thursday, September 11, 2008 4:35 AM by Wictor

# SharePoint Daily for September 11, 2008

Top News Stories EMC, IBM, Microsoft Team on Content-management Interoperability (NetworkWorld) EMC,

Thursday, September 11, 2008 9:31 AM by SharePoint Daily

# re: Announcing the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Specification

Sharepoint is a great collaboration tool but it will have to be redesigned in order to support this specification.  The current version does not support SOA - I like the product, but I am very disappointed in MS.

Saturday, September 13, 2008 9:03 PM by lprzywozny@hotmail.com

# My favorite links from the 2nd week of September 2008

My favorite links from the 2nd week of September 2008

Sunday, September 14, 2008 5:29 AM by YESChandana -Blog

# re: Announcing the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Specification

Do you already have a roadmap or timeline?

Monday, September 15, 2008 5:57 AM by Lisa

# Content Management Interoperability Services

Microsoft, EMC and IBM announced a jointly developed specification that leverages SOAP, REST and Atom

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:44 PM by Riaan's Blog

# An ISV's perspective on CMIS

CMIS is an emerging standard for defining an interface for basic document repository interaction. It

Thursday, October 23, 2008 3:45 PM by Lou Franco's ECM Imaging Blog

# Making external repositories work like document libraries in SharePoint Server 2007 (and a cool example using the CMIS spec)

Making external repositories work like document libraries in SharePoint Server 2007 (and a cool example using the CMIS spec)

Wednesday, February 04, 2009 6:39 AM by Andrew Connell [MVP MOSS]

# Once SharePoint, Always SharePoint - what’s wrong with that?

Computer Sweden has an article in today's issue, also published online yesterday, called “Impossible to get rid of the cash cow of Microsoft”. To sum it up briefly it discusses how hard it is to get r...

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 3:36 PM by Wictor Wilen

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