CMIS

The CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services) standard defines a domain model and set of bindings such as Web Service and REST/ Atom, which can be used by applications to work with one or more Content Management Systems/ repositories.

The CMIS interface is designed to be layered on top of the existing Content Management Systems and their existing programmatic interfaces. It is neither intended to prescribe how specific features should be implemented within those CM systems, nor to exhaustively expose all of the CM system's capabilities through the CMIS interfaces. Rather, it is intended to define a generic/universal set of capabilities provided by a CM system, and a set of services for working with those capabilities .

The following image shows not only a typical requirement in a larger enterprise, but also how the CMIS standard can enable content to be ubiquitous in an enterprise.

Just as the major database vendors standardized on SQL in the 1980's, today's leading ECM vendors...