Content management interoperability services (CMIS) enables easy information sharing across Drupal and Alfresco platforms.
Today we announced the integration of CMIS into the Drupal open source CMS. We partnered with Acquia, commercial support provider for Drupal, the open source social publishing software, and Alfresco, the open source alternative for enterprise content management, to integrate Alfresco with Drupal using CMIS.
Proposed as a new standard for content management by industry-leading organizations including IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and Alfresco, CMIS allows for interoperability between multiple sites and content repositories.
“The cool thing about CMIS is that it unlocks the content scattered across multiple silos in an organization.” says Jeff Potts, Optaros content management practice director. “Our clients get to choose the front-end technology with the best fit, and then they use CMIS as a consistent approach to working with the content.”
“Once content is in a CMIS-compliant repository like Alfresco, it can be synchronized or accessed from any number of Drupal sites via the CMIS API, without specialized integration,” says Dries Buytaert, Drupal founder and Acquia co-founder and CTO.
Led by Optaros’ systems integration team, developers from each company worked together to plan the CMIS integration with Drupal’s open source CMS. A collaborative project was housed online through OForge, an Optaros-created shared workspace, where developers could keep each other informed of project status, track code and work out bugs as the project progressed.
“Optaros’ solution utilizes the best capabilities of both Alfresco and Drupal, it shows what is possible when open source vendors and solution providers collaborate to create better solutions for customers. Open standards like CMIS will make similar solutions easier to accomplish,” says John Newton, Alfresco Software CTO and co-founder.
Drupal community members can access code through the Drupal CMIS API and CMIS Alfresco modules on Drupal.org.
