Federated ECM Search with CMIS

Unleashing CMIS: From Federated Search to Developer Tools Paul Hampton Alfresco Laurence Hart Washington Consulting, Inc.

Agenda What are the issues CMIS : Who, What and Why Details of CMIS AIIM CMIS Demo: Who, What and Why AIIM CMIS Demo: Live Demo CMIS: Further Resources Questions and Answers

Challenges of Interoperability ?? ?? ? ? ● Potentially dozens of Content Management 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 Imaging/ Project/ ECM WCM XML Workflow Collaboration ● Yet there is a lot of commonality Project/ ● But there is “no adoptable standard” ECM Collaboration Project/ WCM Imaging/ ECM Collaboration Workflow Project/ Collaboration

Goals of CMIS  The Solution: Content Management Interoperability Services  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.

Who is behind CMIS? ● The need for such a standard was first identified by AIIM’s iECM Committee ● An initial proposal was drafted by EMC, IBM, & Microsoft ● Reviewed by Alfresco, Open Text, Oracle, and SAP ● All built early prototype to validate the design, and tested interoperability among them ● Draft was unveiled in Sept 2008 and donated to OASIS ● The OASIS CMIS Technical Committee was formed in Nov 2008 ● 20+ vendors are participating ● Aggressive working timeline for v1 ● http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=cmis

Who will benefit from CMIS? ● Enterprise ● Unlock content without sacrificing investment ● Gain business flexibility, agility, & insight Everybody Wins! ● Developer ● Reduce development & maintenance cost CMIS can bring ● Increase addressable market maturity to a ● User fragmented industry ● More content becoming accessible ● Improve usability due to uniformity and accelerate its ● Cheaper & more abundant applications/tools growth! ● Repository Vendor ● Increase demand for repository technology ● Create a horizontal market opportunity

What is CMIS?

What is CMIS?  Content Management Interoperability Services  SQL Standard but for Content Management  Language Independent  Target Content Applicatoins and Collaboration  New SQL-based query language  Basic Operations thru AtomPub and Web Services bindings  Simple Data Model

How does it work? Application portability; Interoperable Content Application Content reuse/integration (on any platform) CMIS Request Not all capabilities A mapping of a repository are interface; necessarily CMIS Not a federation exposed (web-based, service-oriented interface interface) CMIS CMIS CMIS Implementation Implementation Implementation Content Content Content Repository Repository Repository (on any platform) (on any platform) (on any platform)

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

CMIS Protocol Bindings ● Web Services Binding: ● Service-oriented binding ● CMIS-specified XML schema ● Capable for system-to-system access ● Use MTOM to transfer content stream ● WS-Security 1.1, Username Token Profile 1.1 ● Transactional Applications ● ReSTful AtomPub Binding: ● Resource-based binding ● Atom format with CMIS extensions ● Browse-able by standard Atom feed readers ● Suitable for ReSTful-style application-to-system access ● HTTP authentication ● Web-based Applications

iECM Demo for AIIM ‘09 ● Organized by the AIIM iECM Committee ● Thomas Pole, Chair ● Betsy Fanning, AIIM Director of Standards ● Project 2 months before the AIIM Conference ● Search Federator Application ● Development led by Laurence Hart (CMIS Federator) and Thomas Pole (User Interface) ● Use CMIS (Web Services binding) to query/access disparate, geographically distributed vendor repositories ● Content ● Several issues of AIIM E-DOC Magazine, Infonomics Magazine, and vendor material ● Spread across repositories ● Participating vendors ● Alfresco ● EMC Corp ● Nuxeo

How does it work? AIIM iECM’s Search UI (.NET) CMIS Search Federator (California, US) CMIS CMIS CMIS Implementation Implementation Implementation Nuxeo Alfresco Documentum Repository Repository Repository (United Kingdom) (Amazon Cloud) (France)

Challenges Building the Demo ● Hosting Challenges ● Federator hosting service ● Vendor server hosting ● Multiple Firsts ● First SOAP-Based CMIS Application ● First Multi-Vendor CMIS Application ● The 80/20 rule ● Two Months to do Everything ● Only Possible with CMIS Most technical challenges weren’t CMIS related ● ● Nuxeo connector only took one hour to add

iECM System Demo

Alfresco’s CMIS  First implementation based upon the 0.5 Specification  Supports both Web Services and AtomPub 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

Further Resources ● AIIM Demo ● http://aiim-iecm.org/ ● http://aiim-iecm.org/CMISDemoe/ Questions? ● Alfresco CMIS Examples ● http://aiim.alfrescodemo.com/ ● CMIS Development Resources ● http://www.cmisdev.org/

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