Now that CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services) is an official OASIS standard, life should become easier for people trying to access their content repositories through multiple tools. An extension of the existing SOAP specification, CMIS makes it possible to store your documents in a...
Alfresco’s first commercially supported implementation of CMIS provides interoperability of its enterprise content management system with IBM Lotus social software, Google Docs, Drupal and Microsoft Outlook.In addition to support for the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS), Afresco’...
Content management systems do not always like to play nice with each other. With the May 4 announcement of the OASIS international consortium's approval of Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) version 1.0-a new open standard that enables information to be shared across Enterprise...
After months of buildup, Microsoft has released SharePoint 2010, the latest version of their collaboration platform. It’s garnering praise for tight integration with the new Office 2010, but SharePoint 2010 seems to otherwise be a fairly incremental release. And some folks are concerned about...
The ECM company Alfresco ought to occupy a special place in the open source pantheon for readers of this blog. As well as being one of the leading companies in its category, it shows how free software can meet the most demanding enterprise needs and – most importantly, perhaps – it's British by...
For a city or county agency, the routing and maintenance of documents is much like the human body's circulatory system -- there is a lot of complexity and many pathways.And like health care, document management systems can be expensive. But that's not necessarily a set-in-stone cost. For example,...
Alfresco Software has released Alfresco Community Edition 3.3. This version of their enterprise content management platform highlights content services and semantic web features.Alfresco Community 3.3 Features
For those interested in kicking the tires on new and shiny features, version 3.3 offers a...
Alfresco Enterprise Edition runs on a range of software stacks, offers granular management, dashboard-like user interface, and is simple to install and put to work.
This week in the CMS industry (don't start the acronym war on me), we saw WCM vendors change jobs to become analysts and continued sparks (or flames for some) around the (seemingly never-ending) debate on whether WordPress is a CMS.I once said that WP is a web publishing tool in my books. Gilbane's...
One way or another, everyone needs to eat — and that includes all of you open source people too. Fortunately, there are as many ways to make money in the world of open source as there are people who try it. Here's a run down of the top models.Support Contracts and Licenses
There are many different...
