CMIS live example

Three ECM vendors and the AIIM organisation have collaborated together to design and deploy a live example of federated search utilising the Content Management Integration Standard (CMIS). This is being demonstrated at the AIIM Conference in Philadelphia in the US.

This example is also available on the web at this location:

http://www.aiim-iecm.org/CMISDemoE/Default.aspx


This is primarily a federated search and retrieve implementation of CMIS over Documentum, Nuxeo and Alfresco repositories. You can search across the repositories and then retrieve the document from your browser.

While some may say this is not stunning, this is a great test model of the standard (not yet ratified) in action. There are many organisations, especially the large ones that have multiple vendor products and therefore multiple repositories in place. The possibility of bringing these together in a federated way is an exciting possibility.

ECM Alfresco a customer story

Great to see a customer reference to the implementation of Alfresco for records and document management. I have been following Alfresco for some time now and I came across a set of slides from Islington Council in the UK.

Great to see that Open Source is starting to enter into the traditional ECM Market space, especially around records management. The Jeremy Tuck, Islinton's CIO has a slide deck presentation give a good overview of where they were and where they have got including a high level of the process that they went through. Sure it is high level and you need some solid information management background to fill in the gaps, but he has put in his e-mail address for you to contact him if necessary.

CMS Watch have also put Alfresco into their ECM Suite reports and I find that next to Nuxeo it is one of two potentials if you are looking at Open Source for the technology piece of your ECM solution at a reasonable cost.

But there is a warning here folks, while the community edition is free, if you are looking for scalability or DR facilities then you will need to sign up for a per annum support fee for Alfresco. However this is not a bad option when you consider that the annual maintenance cost of any ECM technology runs at 20% per annum.