2. Alfresco is…
Open Open source, open standards
Source Built with the latest, best-of-breed open
source components
Enterprise Enterprise-scale, enterprise-standards
Content Content that runs the enterprise: Web,
Office documents, rich media, images,
records…
Management One of the most experienced enterprise
software teams in the world
3. Agenda
History of content management
Classes of applications and problems
A bigger pie?
What is CMIS?
Why not others?
REST vs. SOAP
Which standard is it?
Before and After
What could go wrong?
What can go right?
Where does it go from here?
Joomla, Drupal, etc.
4. Challenges of Interoperability
Up to dozens of ECM Systems with huge sunk
cost
Each ECM system is a silo
Substantial operational and compliance risk to
separate repositories
System Integrators and Software Vendors need
to write to very different APIs
Previous standards failed to get adopted
Yet there is a lot of commonality
But there is “no adoptable standard”
5. What should a standard look like?
Maps to existing systems
Must play with major vendors systems
Fit with behavior of the underlying system
and little server logic
Learn from previous successes
Drive from real world use cases
Keep it Simple Stupid!
Build and learn
6. Standards Timeline
1993 – ODMA
1996 – DMA
2002 – JSR-170
2005 – iECM
2005 – JSR-283
Oct 2006 – CMIS
August 2007 - Partner review begins
Alfresco, EMC, IBM, Microsoft, Open Text, Oracle, and SAP
October 2007 - Partner review complete
December 2007 – Go to standards body
2008 – Submission to OASIS
2009 – Standard?
7. What is CMIS?
Content Mgmt Interoperability Services
SQL for Content Management
Language Independent
Target Content Apps and Collaboration
New SQL query language
Basic Operations thru REST and SOAP
Simple Data Model
8. Goals of CMIS
Create a new ecosystem for ECM
Enable new classes of cross repo
applications: eDiscovery, Publishing,
Collaboration…
Create a common understanding of ECM:
Query, Inheritance, Properties, CRUD
Versions, etc.
To NOT expose ALL capabilities of a
repository.
To NOT expose admin/management
functions.
9. Interoperable Content Application
Application portability;
(on any platform)
Content reuse/integration
A mapping Not all capabilities
CMIS
interface; of a repository are
(web-based, service-oriented interface)
Not a federation necessarily
interface exposed
CMIS CMIS CMIS CMIS CMIS
Implementation Implementation Implementation Implementation Implementation
DB2 Content
Documentum FileNet SharePoint Alfresco
Manager
Content & Content & Content & Content & Content &
Metadata in Metadata in Metadata in Metadata in Metadata in
Proprietary Proprietary Proprietary Proprietary Proprietary
Form Form Form Form Form
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10. Core Use Cases
Collaborative Content Creation
A set of users wish to work collaboratively to create one or more
documents or web pages.
Need: Authentication, Security, Versioning
Portals
Aggregated interface to viewing content from multiple sources.
Need: Query
Mash-ups
Composite applications that integrates data/functionality from
one or more sources.
Need: Query, RESTful Access (call via URL)
Search
Support for “unified indexing” search engines
Need: Change logs, ACL discovery
11. Use cases that can be built on top of
CMIS
Workflow & Business Process
Management
Need: Query, Reference-ability, ACL (SAP)
Archival
Need: Hi-volume ingestion
Compound/virtual documents
Need: Relationships, complex query
E-Discovery
Need: Query, Search, Hold
12. Not This Time
Records Management
Digital Asset Management
Web Content Management
Subscriptions / Notifications
Aspects (Mixins)
Tagging
17. Folders and Relationships
Source Target
Object Type Name
Data Data
Object Object
A folder object
A document object
A folder containment
relationship
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19. Soap vs.and REST
SOAP – Transactional Applications
WSDL and Basic SOAP Faults
WS-Security and WS-I compliance
Base 64 encoded and MTOM content transfer
REST – Web-based Applications
Leverage ATOM and APP
Authentication thru HTTP protocol
Operations: Get, Post, Put for CRUD and
Query
22. Alfresco’s CMIS
First implementation based upon the 0.5
Specification
Supports both SOAP and REST protocols
Basis for all future public APIs
Used in integration with Drupal and
Joomla
Demonstrates Alfresco as a Content
Services Platform as well as App
23. A Complete, Open Source Enterprise
Content Mgmt System
Image Document
Management Management
Content
Repository
Platform
Records Web Content
Management Management
24. Open Source Model Really Works
1.5M downloads
45,000 registered
users
30,000+ installations
90 countries, 30
languages
800+ enterprise
customers
Major banks,
governments, media
and professional
services
Industry recognition
25. CMIS – Mash It Up!
Shared Drive Portal Web Page Mash-ups Mash-ups Mash-ups Office
URL, CMIS CMIS, HTML, JSON
URL HTML, ATOM, RSS, JSON
CMIS Dispatcher
Alfresco REST Infrastructure
Rendition
JavaScript
Services
Freemarker Templating Content
Scripting Language Model
30. What Could Go Wrong?
No one adopts it
CMIS is not a good technical fit
A big guy decides not to adopt it
A big guy does an “embrace and extend”
CMIS becomes irrelevant
31. What Could Go Right?
Remember SQL-89 and SQL-92?
Remember the recession of 1991?
Remember the growth of the database
industry?
Remember client/server?
Remember web applications?
34. CMIS
The new SQL for content management
Alfresco is the first CMIS implementation
Alfresco is open source and free to try
Get your “CMIS on a Stick” at Booth #542
This presentation at
http://tinyurl.com/aiimjn09