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EMC Documentum CMIS EA2

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Earlier today, the second Early Access (EA2) release of EMC Documentum ECM Platform support for the proposed CMIS standard (i.e. current v0.5 draft) was made publicly available via EDN Labs.

EA2 features support for both bindings in the proposed draft standard: SOAP and AtomPub.

  • CMIS EA2 WSDL endpoints are available as follows:
    http://host:port/services/cmis/service?wsdl
    (e.g. http://localhost:8080/services/cmis/RepositoryService?wsdl)
  • CMIS EA2 AtomPub service document is available as follows:
    http://host:port/resources/cmis
  • CMIS EA2 WADL for the AtomPub resources (not covered by the CMIS specification):
    http://host:port/resources/application.wadl

You’ll find more deployment details in the associated guide.

EMC is committed to CMIS and the standards process. Just as there was an EA1 before this update, there will be subsequent EA releases in the future. Hopefully by making CMIS support available to you as the proposed standard develops and matures, you will consider exercising the draft bindings and submitting your feedback. Thanks in advance!

Update 1/27/2008: Pie (Laurence Hart) has posted about AIIM’s intention to demonstrate CMIS-based interoperability at its upcoming Expo via a prototype. EMC is looking forward to participating in this effort, which will provide a nice proof point for ECM customers, partners and vendors all.

Big Men on Content

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Hopefully you’ve already been reading the musings of Lee Dallas and Marko Sillanpaa over at their Big Men on Content blog. If not, I recommend that you give them a read; I do, regularly.

Anyway, this post is a belated acknowledgment of the fact that both Lee and Marko are EMC colleagues now. Marko joined EMC last quarter and is focused on enabling strategic SI’s to develop solutions on top of the CMA platforms. Marko also writes for CMSWire. Although not a package deal–”might have exceeded weight limitations,” to quote Marko*–, Lee joined around the same time and is part of the same group supporting our system integration partners.

So, welcome Lee and Marko to the EMC team!

* Reference the BMoC tagline and about panel for context, please. :-)

Intelligent capture

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Today, EMC announced new releases of EMC Captiva products (i.e. EMC Captiva InputAccel 6.0 and EMC Captiva Dispatcher 6.0). I want to address the benefits of service-oriented infrastructure related to capture as embodied by these new releases.

The big deal with SOA and InputAccel 6.0 (IA6) is the connectivity it enables with other enterprise applications.

Capture depends heavily on validation of the captured data so access to systems that can supply information based on an extracted value or can perform the validation of extracted values is necessary. Service-orientation in IA6 lets capture be part of a company’s composite TCM applications.

Prior to the release of IA6, capture systems “connectivity” was restricted to ODBC, dropping files on file shares, and/or duplicating validation rules in software.

Another potentially big deal is the exposure of Captiva’s capture functionality to other applications (e.g. a web service for importing data into Captiva).

Today Captiva takes (captures) data from scanners, email, fax machines and legacy systems using specialty importers and file shares. Using web services will reduce complexity by allowing for a single method to be used to take in data from all kinds of systems.

Capture processing tends to occur in large batches; so, the “queue” behavior of a file share is useful. However, it lacks a handshake when the data has been picked up.

A web service would be more likely to be used by an interactive process or could be used as a call-back with the file share method to give a handshake.

It will be interesting to see how service-orientation within capture takes hold.

I want to thank my colleague, Clay Mayers, Captiva CTO, for contributing to this post. (Ah, another potential CMA blogger target… :-) )