Standards
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Use CMIS or Die?
When discussing the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) standard with organizations, progress is measurable when the developers start asking me if they have to use CMIS. The answer is of course no. In the recent Forrester report from Cheryl McKinnon on how CMIS is being used in the “real world”, this excerpt explains the balance… Continue reading
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Strategy Versus Tactics in Content Management
One of the things I REALLY like about my job is the chance to talk to clients, prospects, and people throughout the industry. Nothing helps you learn a technology or vertical like a project, but nothing helps you keep a broader perspective than talking to a wide array of people. Last month I visited two… Continue reading
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Why CMIS 1.1 Is Pretty Awesome
Before I get to the meat of this post, I want to start with a confession. I have been a slacker. If you look at my word cloud to the right, you’ll see CMIS as a big piece of the proverbial Pie. Even before it was a public term, I railed for the need for… Continue reading
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Content, Security, and Standards
I am about to do what I stopped doing several years ago, start paying attention to James McGovern. Why? Because he is talking about several important issues that need to be dealt with in the industry. Years ago, James and I discussed Security standards around Identity Management, primarily SAML. While my focus on the time… Continue reading
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Using a Platform for an ECM Strategy
As I covered in my last post, Implementing an ECM Strategy without a Platform, you don’t need an Enterprise CMS Platform to implement a successful Enterprise Content Management Strategy. That doesn’t mean that you can’t use one or that using one would be the wrong approach. Just like there is no one-size-fits-all CMS, there is… Continue reading
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Darwin’s take on JCR and CMIS
There has been a lot of talk of late regarding the demise of the Java Content Repository (JCR) specification and what to do when a standard does die off. Much of this is blamed on the emergence of CMIS as a standard, but that is just a contributory factor. Many Content Management specifications and standards… Continue reading
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The AIIM CMIS Demo: Looking Back at 2009 and Ahead to 2010
I’ve published a lot on the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) standard since it’s initial public announcement in September of 2008. One problem is that a lot of that content is spread out in multiple blog posts. Well Thomas Pole, the AIIM iECM Committee chair, and I have written a whitepaper talking about the demo… Continue reading
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CMIS, Beauty Is More Than Skin Deep
Kas Thomas wrote a post about how CMIS could be called DMIS as it is more for document management systems than content management systems. This hit me on two fronts. The first is with the concept of “CMS”. Why is it that when I talk to people about “CMS”, they are almost always referring to… Continue reading
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Talking on CMIS at EMC World and Other Slides
In case you missed it, there were a lot of presentations last week at EMC World. While most of the slides are only available to attendees, there are a few exceptions. The first is my presentation. Since I wrote part of it and was a co-presenter with Karin Ondricek of EMC, I was given permission… Continue reading
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EMC World 2009: Documentum ECM 6.5 Architecture Overview
Victor Spivak, chief architect for the platform, is presenting on what is the most popular topic post from last year. Victor is smart and doesn’t mince words. The session was mostly packed 15 minutes before it even started. Victor is going to breeze through many of the things that haven’t changed in a year, so… Continue reading