What is CMIS

Content Management Interoperability Services, short CMIS, is the new buzzword in the ECM world and is also the name for a new ECM standard. CMIS offers a common view and access on ECM repositories in terms of document management. It provides the least common denominator between all vendors which have been involved in the CMIS standardization.

Figure 1: History of CMIS
(see http://www.slideshare.net/alfresco/cmis-spec-uncovered, slide 5)
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