OASIS has been selected as the standards body for fully formalizing CMIS. OASIS is an open international open standards consortium. The Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Technical Committee of OASIS will attempt to finalize the an open standard for using Web Services, Web 2.0 and Enterprise Content Management.
The draft specification that will be considered by OASIS was created by IBM, Alfresco, Microsoft and EMC. Now the attempt is to widen the scope of interested parties and to formalize the draft specification into a standard. The OASIS group has attracted considerable interest and a wide variety of companies have signed up to participate in the standards process. Companies include IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Alfresco, Booz Allen Hamilton, EMC, Magnolia, Nuxeo, Open Text, Quark, SAP, Saperion, Vamosa, and Vignette.
“CMIS offers new potential for write-once, run-anywhere content,” said Mary Laplante, senior analyst at The Gilbane Group. “Companies want the best solutions for their business applications. In reality, this means multiple CM systems and the resulting need for integration. Companies still spend significant time and money connecting heterogeneous repositories. CMIS offers the promise of dramatically reduced IT burden associated with maintaining custom integration code and one-off integrations.”
