The objective of the CMIS standard is to define a common content management web services interface. According to Stefan Waldhauser, founder and CEO of WeWebU Software, this approach is very similar to the standardization of SQL by ANSI in the 80s. "SQL enabled software application vendors for the first time to offer database applications that could run against different databases. So SQL boosted the growth of software markets like ERP and CRM dealing with structured data….CMIS will now enable ISVs to offer content-centric applications that can be run on top of different ECM-platforms. That will enlarge the opportunities for vendors of Content Enabled Applications drastically and will lead to a lot of innovation in this marketplace."
According to John Newton, "CMIS is both and an opportunity and a threat for traditional ECM vendors. It is a threat because it provides SharePoint in particular an opportunity to ease users out of those traditional platforms and into SharePoint. SharePoint being a value player at the low end will naturally try to gobble up ECM low end implementations. It is an opportunity for a number of different reasons. This is a chance for the larger vendors to consolidate the small holdings of the lesser or defunct competitors….More solutions will mean more money spent on ECM as it solves real business problems, thus making a bigger ECM pie. This in turn will create more solutions. All this played out with the standardization of the DBMS market and there is no reason to expect that it won't in the ECM market."
The following might also be of interest...
8 reasons why CMIS will transform the ECM industry
There are a host of resources and presentations available at the AIIM Official Guide to CMIS.
John Newton's 8 predictions for 2010.
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