Silver Spring, MD, April 23, 2010 – AIIM, Alfresco, EMC Corporation, IBM Corporation, Microsoft, and Nuxeo announced the development of a demonstration implementation of the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification at info360 (AIIM International Exposition and Conference) that took place at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 20 through April 22. CMIS, which is currently being advanced through the open standards process at OASIS, makes use of web services to ensure content repositories and solutions are able to interoperate independent of operating systems and architectures.

The demonstration shows the use of CMIS version 1.0 specification to access electronic health records in several Content Management repositories or systems in a common and unified manner to make finding and accessing health records easier regardless of the storage location. Three clinical cases demonstrate the ease with which electronic health records may be located across repositories. We demonstrate how a physician will be able to conduct a search across repositories related to their patient and how patients will be able to view the documents and images that comprise their electronic health record. The vendors participating in the demonstration include Alfresco, Box.net, EMC Corporation, eXo Platform UA, IBM Corporation, Microsoft, and Nuxeo. Each of the vendors is operating their specific content repository which has been populated with electronic health records.  

“CMIS will have a profound impact on organizations using content applications and, as an open standard, has the ability to future-proof IT investments. This year’s AIIM Expo is going to be a superb forum for organizations to learn how they can get started with CMIS,” said John Newton, CTO, Alfresco. 

"Content management vendors of all sizes are recalibrating their offerings to meet rapidly evolving customer demands, namely the ability to access crucial content and collaboration tools across platforms and devices, and many are looking to the cloud as a compelling platform for content delivery,” said Aaron Levie, Co-founder and CEO of Box.net.  “Now more than ever, establishing a clear industry standard is essential to facilitating both interoperability on the systemic level and a seamless user experience. This year’s AIIM demonstration provides a glimpse into how CMIS can provide unprecedented access to content spread across repositories, and we look forward to participating in future implementations showcasing integration of CMIS with Box.net’s Cloud Content Management Platform.”

“We believe that the rapid adoption of CMIS is a testament to both the quality of its design and the potential impact of a true standard for content management,” said John McCormick, Vice President of Product Management, Content Management and Archiving Division at EMC. “As a long-time proponent of open standards, we’re pleased to be supporting CMIS within the next release of EMC Documentum.”

"CMIS is a huge win for end users, and effectively frees their content from vendor lock-in. eXo stands behind customer choice and is pleased to participate in this groundbreaking demonstration to illustrate the business value of this important standard," said Benjamin Mestrallet, founder and CEO of eXo.

 “As one of the three founders of the CMIS standard, IBM is proud of the team of visionaries that have brought CMIS from specification to an OASIS standard in such a short amount of time,” said Ken Bisconti, Vice President, Products and Strategy, IBM Enterprise Content Management. “IBM continues to invest in standards, such as CMIS, that will help customers increase the value of their ECM investment. We believe that our customers will benefit from universal and secure access to enterprise content from their office desktops as shown in the electronic health records demonstration.”

“Microsoft has been involved with CMIS since inception and we are excited to see the hard work of all those involved in defining the specification coming to fruition,” said Ryan Duguid, Senior Product Manager with Microsoft.  “The CMIS demonstration at info360 will give people a chance to see CMIS in action and shows Microsoft’s commitment driving interoperability in the ECM industry.  Microsoft will support CMIS in SharePoint Server 2010, providing our customers with a great out of the box solution for connecting disparate repositories and supporting a new era of Composite Content Applications that can be built on the CMIS specification without worrying about the underlying content repository.”

"Nuxeo is tremendously pleased to see how far CMIS has entered into the ECM ecosystem over the last year” said Eric Barroca, Nuxeo CEO. “Every couple of weeks we've seen new partners build prototypes and integrations to show how rapidly real business value can be delivered to common content management use cases. We're only at the tip of the iceberg of the potential, and predict that within months we will be helping customers deal with their content management challenges in new, innovative ways."

The AIIM iECM committee working with representatives from Alfresco, Box.net, EMC, eXo Platform, IBM, Microsoft, and Nuxeo developed this federated and distributed ECM system based on CMIS 1.0 specification developed by OASIS. The federator component integrates multiple CMS (Content Management Systems) solutions to make the content in the various repositories available as if it was contained in one repository.

The CMIS Demonstration concept and its requirements were developed by the AIIM iECM committee members. The software design and development of the Federator were lead by iECM members Thomas Pole of Harris Corporation and Laurence Hart of Washington Consulting, Inc. with development support from their respective companies.  

Attendees at the AIIM International Exposition and Conference were able to see the demonstration at each of the participating vendors' booths. Access to the demonstration is also available at http://www.aiim-iecm.org.

"CMIS promises to be a major development for the ECM industry as well as healthcare in general," said John Mancini, AIIM President. "Through the use of this specification, we will be able to make it easier for organizations to finding information within the organization as easy as it is to find information on the Internet."

Organizations will no longer be forced to select only one content management repository solution to be able to access information throughout the organization. The content stored in content management repositories installed either as an enterprise solution or to solve a specific problem can now be accessed through the implementation of the CMIS interface.

Anyone interested in participating on the AIIM iECM committee is encouraged to send an email to AIIM's Director of Standards, Betsy Fanning at bfanning@aiim.org. For more information about AIIM Standards, please visit http://www.aiim.org/standards .

For more information about the OASIS CMIS Technical Committee, please visit http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/cmis .

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About AIIM
AIIM (www.aiim.org) is the community that provides education, research, and best practices to help organizations find, control, and optimize their information.

For over 60 years, AIIM has been the leading non-profit organization focused on helping users to understand the challenges associated with managing documents, content, records, and business processes. AIIM was founded in 1943 as the National Microfilm Association and later became the Association for Information and Image Management. AIIM is also known as the enterprise content management (ECM) association.

Today, AIIM is international in scope, independent, and implementation-focused. As the industry’s intermediary, AIIM represents the entire ECM industry – including users, suppliers, and the channel.

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About Box.net
Founded in 2005, Box.net provides Cloud Content Management for over 4 million users and companies ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. Box.net’s dynamic, flexible content management and collaboration solution empowers users to access and share content online, and gives IT professionals unprecedented visibility into how content moves within their organizations and beyond.

About Alfresco Software, Inc.
Alfresco Software is the leader in the open source enterprise content management market. The company couples the innovation of open source with the stability of a true enterprise-class platform at a tenth of the cost. The Alfresco content platform uses a flexible architecture to provide document management, web content management, records management, and collaboration software to enterprise customers worldwide. Founded in 2005 by a team of content management veterans that includes the co-founder of Documentum, John Newton, and former COO of Business Objects, John Powell, Alfresco is based in London. For more information, go to www.alfresco.com.

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About EMC
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.EMC.com.

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