Content Management Interoperability Services

Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) is a specification for improving interoperability between Enterprise Content Management

Enterprise content management

Enterprise Content Management is a formalized means of organizing and storing an organization's documents, and other content, that relate to the organization's processes...

systems. OASIS

OASIS (organization)

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards is a global consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business and web service standards...

, a web standards consortium, approved CMIS as an OASIS Specification on May 1, 2010.

CMIS provides a common data model covering typed files, folders with generic properties that can be set or read. In addition there may be an access control system, and a checkout and version control facility, and the ability to define generic relations. There is a set of generic services for modifying and querying the data model, and several protocol bindings for these services, including SOAP and Representational State Transfer (REST)

Representational State Transfer

Representational state transfer is a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems such as the World Wide Web. The term representational state transfer was introduced and defined in 2000 by Roy Fielding in his doctoral dissertation...

, using the Atom

Atom (standard)

The name Atom applies to a pair of related standards. The Atom Syndication Format is an XML language used for web feeds, while the Atom Publishing Protocol is a simple HTTP-based protocol for creating and updating web resources.Web feeds allow software programs to check for updates published on a...

convention. The model is based on common architectures of document management system

Document management system

A document management system is a computer system used to track and store electronic documents and/or images of paper documents. It is usually also capable of keeping track of the different versions created by different users . The term has some overlap with the concepts of content management...

s.

Although initiated by AIIM, CMIS is now being administered by the OASIS standards body. Participants in the process include Adobe Systems Incorporated, Alfresco

Alfresco (software)

Alfresco is a Free/Libre enterprise content management system for Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems. Alfresco comes in two flavours. Alfresco Community Edition is free software, LGPL licensed open source and open standards. Alfresco Enterprise Edition is commercially & proprietary...

, EMC

EMC Corporation

EMC Corporation , a Financial Times Global 500, Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company, develops, delivers and supports information infrastructure and virtual infrastructure hardware, software, and services. EMC is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA.Former Intel executive Richard Egan and his...

, eXo

EXo Platform

eXo Platform is an open source, open standard, Enterprise-scale portal, content management system and WebOS for Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems. The eXo Platform project started in 2003 as an implementation of the first portlet API . eXo Platform is developed using Java technology...

, FatWire

FatWire

FatWire Software is a privately held company selling web content management system software.-History :* 1996: Established by Mark Fasciano, Ari Kahn and John Murcott it was named FutureTense...

, HP, IBM

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

, ISIS Papyrus

ISIS Papyrus

ISIS Papyrus is a Swiss-based commercial software development group that sells its products in 42 countries either directly or through business partners...

, Liferay, Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

, Open Text

Open Text Corporation

OpenText Corporation Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. As Canada's largest software company, it produces and distributes computer software applications designed to enable Enterprise content management solutions for large corporations across all industries....

, Oracle

Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...

and SAP

SAP AG

SAP AG is a German software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. Headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, with regional offices around the world, SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software...

. The standard is available for public comment at OASIS.

Specification Progress & TC Members

The specification is currently approved as OASIS

OASIS (organization)

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards is a global consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business and web service standards...

CMIS v1.0 standard.

There are public discussion lists.

The Technical Committee (TC) includes the following organizations:
Adobe Systems Incorporated, AIIM, Alfresco Software

Alfresco (software)

, ASG Software Solutions

ASG Software Solutions

ASG Software Solutions is a privately held computer software company that develops and sells enterprise software to international clients. Founded in 1986 by Arthur L. Allen , ASG’s headquarters is located in Naples, Florida . The company also maintains offices worldwide...

, Booz Allen Hamilton

Booz Allen Hamilton

Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. , or more commonly Booz Allen, is an American public consulting firm headquartered in McLean, Fairfax County, Virginia, with 80 other offices throughout the United States. Ralph Shrader is its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. The firm was founded by Edwin Booz in...

, Content Technologies, dotCMS

DotCMS

dotCMS is a free software / open source web content management system for building/managing websites, content and content driven web applications. dotCMS includes features such as support for virtual hosting, WebDav , structured content, clustering and can run on multiple databases PostgreSQL,...

, EMC Corporation

EMC Corporation

, Entropysoft, Exalead, Inc.

Exalead

Exalead is a software company that provides search platforms and search-based applications for consumer and business users. The company is headquartered in Paris, France, and is a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes .- CloudView Platform :...

, FatWire

FatWire

FatWire Software is a privately held company selling web content management system software.-History :* 1996: Established by Mark Fasciano, Ari Kahn and John Murcott it was named FutureTense...

, Fidelity Investments

Fidelity Investments

FMR LLC or Fidelity Investments is an American multinational financial services corporation one of the largest mutual fund and financial services groups in the world. It was founded in 1946 and serves North American investors. Fidelity Ventures is its venture capital arm...

, GX Software, HP, IBM

IBM

, ISIS Papyrus

ISIS Papyrus

ISIS Papyrus is a Swiss-based commercial software development group that sells its products in 42 countries either directly or through business partners...

, Microsoft Corporation, Nuxeo

Nuxeo

Nuxeo delivers an open source document management application built with a complete, modular and extensible open source platform for enterprise content management. Other packaged applications built with the platform provide solutions for digital asset management and case management...

, Open Text Corporation

Open Text Corporation

, Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation

, Quark, Pearson PLC

Pearson PLC

Pearson plc is a global media and education company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is both the largest education company and the largest book publisher in the world, with consumer imprints including Penguin, Dorling Kindersley and Ladybird...

, SAP AG

SAP AG

, Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...

, Wells Fargo, WeWebU Software AG, and Zia Consulting.

CMIS Benefits

The CMIS specification provides a Web services interface that:

Is language-agnostic (REST
Rest
Rest may refer to:* Leisure* Human relaxation* SleepRest may also refer to:* Rest , a pause in a piece of music* Rest , the relation between two observers* Rest , a 2008 album by Gregor Samsa...

and SOAP
SOAP
SOAP, originally defined as Simple Object Access Protocol, is a protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of Web Services in computer networks...

are implemented in many languages)
Decouples web service and content. So CMIS can be used to access an historic document repository.

Historical notes

The initial work of developing the momentum and use cases that led to the CMIS proposal was conducted by the iECM Initiative

sponsored by AIIM. This ongoing project to foster interoperability among ECM systems is supported by the collaborative efforts of governmental, commercial, vendor, and consulting organizations.

CMIS Servers

Software	Capability support	Notes
Alfresco Alfresco (software) Alfresco is a Free/Libre enterprise content management system for Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems. Alfresco comes in two flavours. Alfresco Community Edition is free software, LGPL licensed open source and open standards. Alfresco Enterprise Edition is commercially & proprietary... 3.3+	ACL=manage AllVersionsSearchable=false Changes=objectidsonly ContentStreamUpdatability=anytime GetDescendants=true GetFolderTree=true Multifiling=true PWCSearchable=true PWCUpdatable=true Query=bothcombined Renditions=read Unfiling=false VersionSpecificFiling=false Join=none	Provides extensions to the core CMIS specification to support "aspects" (mixins).
Apache Chemistry InMemory Server 0.3	ACL=none AllVersionsSearchable=false Changes=properties ContentStreamUpdatability=pwconly GetDescendants=true GetFolderTree=true Multifiling=true PWCSearchable=false PWCUpdatable=true Query=metadataonly Renditions=none Unfiling=true VersionSpecificFiling=false Join=none	Holds all data in memory targeted for testing and development, NOT for production use!
Day Software Day Software Day Software was an enterprise content management software company headquartered in Basel, Switzerland and Boston, Massachusetts. Day Software was founded in 1993 in Basel, Switzerland.... CRX 2.1+	Unknown
EMC Documentum 6.7	ACL=manage AllVersionsSearchable=true Changes=none ContentStreamUpdatability=anytime GetDescendants=true GetFolderTree=true Multifiling=true PWCSearchable=false PWCUpdatable=false Query=With Fulltext: bothcombined; Without Fulltext: metadataonly Renditions=read (not implemented for folders) Unfiling=false VersionSpecificFiling=false Join=inneronly
eXo Platform EXo Platform eXo Platform is an open source, open standard, Enterprise-scale portal, content management system and WebOS for Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems. The eXo Platform project started in 2003 as an implementation of the first portlet API . eXo Platform is developed using Java technology... with xCMIS	ACL=manage AllVersionsSearchable=true ContentStreamUpdatability=anytime GetDescendants=true GetFolderTree=true Multifiling=true PWCSearchable=true PWCUpdatable=true Query=bothcombined Renditions=read Unfiling=true VersionSpecificFiling=false Join=none	The xCMIS project, initially contributed to the Open Source community by eXo, is an implementation of the full stack of Java-based CMIS services. xCMIS also include the client side frameworks for integrating content from different enterprise repositories according to the CMIS standard. xCMIS provides an out-of-the-box ability to expose an eXo JCR repository, and can be used in conjunction with CMIS gadgets using GWT based client side framework (coming soon to Open Source). Both can be easily integrated to the GateIn portal. xCMIS supports all the features specified in the CMIS core definition as well as both REST AtomPub and Web Services (SOAP/WSDL) protocol bindings. In addition to architecture supposed to provide an ability to a plug any third party content repository thanks to Storage Provider Interface layer. So, the idea of the project is to make as simple as possible joining Enterprise Content repositories making all of them CMIS-able and expose them to language-independent CMIS clients using the most convenient protocol. Read more about CMIS in real-life here . xCMIS project is Packaged as J2EE Web archive ( WAR ) as well as prepared "download and go" Tomcat bundle
Fabasoft Fabasoft Folio Cloud Fabasoft Folio Cloud is software for Cloud Computing. It was developed by Fabasoft in Linz, Austria and launched in January 2010. The product also features secure document management and teamwork applications...	GetDescendants=true GetFolderTree=true Multifiling support=true ContentStreamUpdatability=anytime	Provides extensions to the core CMIS specification to support "aspects"
IBM FileNet 5.0 FileNet FileNet, a company acquired by IBM, developed software to help enterprises manage their content and business processes. The FileNet P8 platform, their flagship system, is a framework for developing custom enterprise systems, offering much functionality out of the box and capable of being customized...	Unknown
IBM Connections Files 3.0 IBM Lotus Connections IBM Connections is a proprietary Web 2.0 social software application developed by the Lotus Software division of IBM. The goal of Lotus Connections is to empower companies to be more innovative and help them execute more quickly by using dynamic networks of co-workers, partners and customers...	Unknown	Only documents are accessible via CMIS - other content types are inaccessible.
IBM LotusLive Files	Unknown
IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5 Lists	Unknown	Only data lists are accessible via CMIS - other content types are inaccessible.
ISIS Papyrus ISIS Papyrus ISIS Papyrus is a Swiss-based commercial software development group that sells its products in 42 countries either directly or through business partners... Objects	ACL=none AllVersionsSearchable=true Changes=none ContentStreamUpdatability=none GetDescendants=true GetFolderTree=true Multifiling=true PWCSearchable=false PWCUpdatable=false Query=none Renditions=none Unfiling=false VersionSpecificFiling=false Join=none	This module exposes objects defined in the Papyrus Repository. Document instances are mapped through MIME type into CMIS document type and subtypes.
KnowledgeTree KnowledgeTree KnowledgeTree, Inc. is a provider of online document management software based in Raleigh, North Carolina. The company also has an office in Cape Town, South Africa. The company's product, also called KnowledgeTree, makes use of the cloud computing platform from Amazon EC2... 3.7+	Unknown
Microsoft SharePoint Server Microsoft SharePoint Microsoft SharePoint is a web application platform developed by Microsoft. First launched in 2001, SharePoint is typically associated with web content management and document management systems, but it is actually a much broader platform of web technologies, capable of being configured into a wide... 2010	Unknown	Requires installation of the Administration Toolkit
NCMIS	Unknown
Nuxeo Nuxeo Nuxeo delivers an open source document management application built with a complete, modular and extensible open source platform for enterprise content management. Other packaged applications built with the platform provide solutions for digital asset management and case management... DM 5.3+ and DAM 1.1+	ACL=none AllVersionsSearchable=true Changes=objectidsonly ContentStreamUpdatability=pwconly GetDescendants=true GetFolderTree=true Multifiling=false PWCSearchable=true PWCUpdatable=true Query=bothcombined Renditions=read Unfiling=false VersionSpecificFiling=false Join=innerandouter	Proxy documents and secondary content streams are not available through CMIS
O3spaces O3spaces O3Spaces is a document management system developed by O3Spaces B.V.. It is built by a team of software engineers based in the Netherlands using OpenOffice.org, StarOffice, and ODF-centric applications as enterprise office and collaboration solutions. The product is written in Java, and based on the... 3.2+	Unknown
OpenIMS	ContentStreamUpdatability=anytime GetDescendants=true GetFolderTree=true PWCSearchable=true	Fully integrated into OpenIMS DMS.
OpenText	* Private Working Copy=TRUE PWC updatable=TRUE PWC searchable=TRUE ACL=MANAGE ACL propagation=OBJECTONLY ACL supported=BOTH Changes=NONE ContentStreamUpdatability=ANYTIME GetDescendants=TRUE GetFolderTree=TRUE Query=BOTHCOMBINED All versions searchable=TRUE Join Capability=NONE Multifiling support=FALSE Unfiling support=FALSE Version specific filing=FALSE Renditions=NONE	With the release of ECM Suite 2010, OpenText provides support for CMIS. These capabilities are implemented through a CMIS Connector above Enterprise Library Services 10.2.0.
OpenWGA OpenWGA OpenWGA is Web Content Management computer software running on the Java Enterprise Edition Platform. It is used to build, manage and publish websites and content-centric web applications... 5.2+	Unknown
Seapine Surround SCM 2011.1	Unknown
Sense/Net 6.0+	Unknown
TYPO3 TYPO3 TYPO3 is a free and open source web content management framework. It is released under the GNU General Public License. It can run on several web servers, such as Apache or IIS, on top of many operating systems, among them Linux, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and OS/2.-History:TYPO3 was...	Unknown

CMIS Clients

Software	Type	Technology	Notes
cmislib (part of Apache Chemistry)	Library	Python
CMIS PHPlib	Library	PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
cmis-php-client (part of Apache Chemistry)	Library	PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
CMIS Spaces	Application	Flex Adobe Flex Adobe Flex is a software development kit released by Adobe Systems for the development and deployment of cross-platform rich Internet applications based on the Adobe Flash platform... /ActionScript ActionScript ActionScript is an object-oriented language originally developed by Macromedia Inc. . It is a dialect of ECMAScript , and is used primarily for the development of websites and software targeting the Adobe Flash Player platform, used on Web pages in the form of...	Flex+AIR RIA Client with desktop drag/drop, Flex+Browser RIA Client, Portlet, ActionScript libraries (both AtomPub REST, SOAP)
DITALabs DITA CMIS Explorer	Application	PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... /ExtJS
DotCMIS (part of Apache Chemistry)	Library	.NET .NET Framework The .NET Framework is a software framework that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large library and supports several programming languages which allows language interoperability...
Liferay 6.1	Application	Java Java (programming language) Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...	Synchronizes Liferay's document repository with CMIS servers.
OpenIMS	Application	PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...	Can synchronize document store with CMIS servers.
OpenCMIS (part of Apache Chemistry)	Library	Java Java (programming language) Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...	Includes some CMIS server functionality as well, but is not a fully fledged CMIS server by itself.
OpenWorkdesk (WeWebU Software AG)	Application	Java Java (programming language) Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities... /ExtJS	An application suite (not just a CMIS browser!) for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) with an intuitive Web 2.0 front-end.
Papyrus CMIS Adapter	Application	Papyrus Objects Papyrus Platform The Papyrus Platform from Swiss software vendor ISIS Papyrus is a consolidated solution that brings together Adaptive Case Management , Enterprise Content Management , Business Process Management , Business Rules Management , and operational Business Intelligence .Built on its Papyrus Objects...	The module communicates with CMIS repositories directly through Papyrus Query Language (PQL).
Connect-CMIS (Connector in Pegasystems Inc. Pegasystems Pegasystems Inc. is a provider of Business Process Management software solutions and a Business rules Platform based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.-History:Pegasystems was founded in 1983 by Alan Trefler... Pega BPM)	Application	Pega BPM	Allows for connectivity to any CMIS compliant server from Pega BPM.
Zero-Install Desktop Integration (ZIDI) (WeWebU Software AG)	Application	Java Java (programming language) Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities... /ExtJS	ZIDI exposes parts of your ECM system as Direct Access Folders (DAF) that are shown as a network drive and can be therefore accessed directly by Windows Explorer or Microsoft Office.
CMIS Connector (Module of the SilverStripe SilverStripe SilverStripe is a free and open source content management system for creating and maintaining websites. It provides an out of the box web-based administration panel that enables users to make modifications to parts of the website, which includes a WYSIWYG website editor... CMS)	Application	PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...	The module can integrate external content via a CMIS connection into the SilverStripe SilverStripe SilverStripe is a free and open source content management system for creating and maintaining websites. It provides an out of the box web-based administration panel that enables users to make modifications to parts of the website, which includes a WYSIWYG website editor... CMS.
Drupal Drupal Drupal is a free and open-source content management system and content management framework written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is used as a back-end system for at least 1.5% of all websites worldwide ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and... 6.x	Application	PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...	Can be configured as a CMIS browser.
WordPress WordPress WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It is often customized into a content management system . It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14.7% of Alexa Internet's "top 1...	Application	PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...	Can be configured as a CMIS browser
Hippo CMS Hippo CMS Hippo CMS is an open-source information centered Content Management System. The Hippo CMS project was initiated and is maintained by . It's targeted at medium to large organisations managing content for multi-channel distribution like web sites and intranets...	Application	Java Java (programming language) Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...	Can be configured as a CMIS browser
libcmis	Library	C++ C++ C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell...

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Can someone who knows more about these products please allocate each of these products into one, and only one, of the above lists (client or server)?

Software	Language	Open source	Notes
ActiveCMIS	Ruby Ruby (programming language) Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. Ruby originated in Japan during the mid-1990s and was first developed and designed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto...
Atlassian Atlassian Atlassian is a software company based in Sydney, Australia which makes business enterprise software, targeted at software developers. On 1 September 2010, the World Economic Forum announced the company as a Technology Pioneer for 2011.- Products :... Confluence + Crowd 3.5+/2.2.2+	Java Java (programming language) Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...
Constellio	Java Java (programming language) Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...
ECM Mobile	Java Java (programming language) Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...
enprovia Mobile Enabler 2.0	Java Java (programming language) Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...
Exstream Software Exstream Software Exstream Software is a document management company based in Lexington, Kentucky founded by Davis Marksbury and Dan Kloiber in 1998.The company's primary product is the Diaglogue software package, which its customers use to generate and print mailings for their clients.In March 2008 it was acquired...	Java Java (programming language) Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...

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