CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
1 July 2013
Product News
OASIS Approves New Version of CMIS Standard for Content in the Cloud
The OASIS international consortium announced the approval of version 1.1 of Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS), a broadly adopted open standard that enables information to be shared across Enterprise Content Management (ECM) repositories from different vendors. CMIS 1.1 is now an official OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification.
CMIS frees content trapped in traditional "content silos" and facilitates "content in the cloud" and mobile computing. The standard is designed to be easily layered on top of most content management systems to provide a common interface for generic content management functions.
"CMIS has been a key enabler of multivendor connectivity in the ECM world. Making it easier to interconnect and leverage content repositories in the cloud is the next wave as companies embrace the cloud in all of its permutations -- whether via public clouds, private clouds, or hybrid cloud/on-premise architectures -- to improve the productivity of their information workers and streamline their document-intensive business processes," said IDC’s Melissa Webster, Program Vice President, Content & Digital Media Technologies for the analyst firm.
"CMIS has been a game-changer for the market ever since version 1.0 was approved in 2010. Re-pository vendors across the board now offer CMIS services for their products, and application de-velopers use CMIS to access and manage content. CMIS 1.1 was developed to directly address feedback gained from this broad knowledge base of experience," said David Choy, chair of the OASIS CMIS Technical Committee.
Functionality added in version 1.1 includes type mutability, which allows CMIS clients to create, modify, and delete type and property definitions for repositories. Supports for object retention and hold are added. Named sets of properties can now be dynamically added and removed from indi-vidual CMIS objects. Very large uploads of document contents can be broken into smaller calls to append content. Repositories can now list supported extensions or additional CMIS-based standards for CMIS clients to discover. A JSON-base protocol binding is also added to facilitate browser-based CMIS clients.
Alfresco Software, SAP, and the Apache Chemistry OpenCMIS all verified implementations of CMIS 1.1, in accordance with OASIS policy.
CMIS is offered for implementation on a royalty-free basis. Participation in the OASIS CMIS Technical Committee is open to all companies, non-profit groups, governments, academic institu-tions, and individuals. As with all OASIS projects, archives of the Committees' work are accessible to both members and non-members, and OASIS hosts an open mail list for public comment.
Become a member of the CIMdata PLM Community to receive your daily PLM news and much more.
Tell us what you think of the CIMdata Newsletter. Send your feedback.
CIMdata is committed to your privacy. Your personal information will never be sold or shared outside of CIMdata without your express permission.