Good Bye, Content Islands!

CMIS will Change the ECM World – WeWebU Takes an Active Part

Classical document and enterprise content management (ECM) is an old hat and reaching its limits. Enterprises as well as government organizations need fast access to all their crucial information, no matter where it is actually stored. The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) has released the new standard for Content Management Interoperability Services. CMIS will lead to business applications providing exactly that: One unified work environment for data, documents and processes independent from the underlying back end systems. Good bye, content islands!

WeWebU is a member of the OASIS CMIS Technical Committee that defines the new standard. Since many years, WeWebU’s products have combined data and processes from a wide range of ECM platforms in one unified, process-oriented work environment (e.g. WeWebU OpenWorkdesk, WeWebU Zero-Install Office Integration). With CMIS they are interoperable with almost every ECM system and usable in a wide range of cross-repository scenarios.

As a first step, CMIS will open the floodgates for innovative, content-centric applications that can run on top of different ECM platforms. Thinking further, CMIS will lead in the direction of overall Enterprise Information Management that replaces distinct solutions for managing data, contents and processes discretely. It is not a pie in the sky that documents and business processes from different ECM and BPM systems will go hand in hand with data from different data bases and business applications like ERP, CRM and Business Intelligence (BI) systems. WeWebU’s products have this approach for a long time. With CMIS, these functionalities are extended to provide cutting-edge Enterprise Information Management applications for almost all back ends and business applications.