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Gilbane SF: Content Standards — CMIS, JSR-170, JSR-283
One of the final sessions at Gilbane SF yesterday was around content standards: CMIS, JSR-170 and JSR-283.
Many realize there are several challenges with CMIS in particular and efficiently working with content from disparate content repositories in general.
The session aimed at shedding light on some of these challenges and possible solutions in the standards space.
Too Much Content in Too Many Content Repositories
Chances are, if you’re in the enterprise content management space and you have an ECM system, this still doesn’t solve all your ECM problems. There are also document management and digital asset management systems, for example, you need to be able to “talk to.” Users of one ECM system often need to access and store documents in an entirely different content repository.
Scattered data repositories only add to the challenge. The majority of companies have an assortment of repositories, be it ERP, PLM, PDM, BI, KM, WCM, or DM systems. The problems we run into with multiple repositories are compliance, eDiscovery and business intelligence.
Add to that the fact that 80% of data is unstructured, and the enterprise world looks very gloom. Search gets harder as data sets grow. It takes longer to index. Thus, it takes longer to search.
ECM: CMIS or JSR-170/283?
Naresh Devnani, managing director at Lean Management Group, gave us a peek into real-life scenarios and impressions of implementing a standard’s wrapper, from the times when he was working for Vignette PS.
Devnani talked about implementing a JSR- 170 (the standard that was led by Day Software) level 1 functionality for an RDBMS-based web content management system.
Speaking of lessons learned, Devnani mentioned:
- Lack of ease in implementing a contained 1-n parent-child relationship
- Inefficient reference model in certain cases
- Node types not useful for WCM object wrapper
- No multidimensional view of repositories
- Big ramp-up
One of the examples at the session was quite shocking, actually. According to Devnani, some customers think of interoperability in terms of a content migration and moving things around from one repository to another. But there are still high hopes for CMIS.
Full story on CMSWire: Gilbane SF: Content Integration Standards — CMIS, JSR-170, JSR-283
Day’s New CRX Releases Empower Developers and Enterprises
Chatted with Day’s Kevin Cochrane about the announcement early this week. Of course, took me a bit longer to get the news out than I expected. Was a bit busy with infrastructure designs, trainings, project timelines, unavailable resources, lost baggage and other exciting disasters.
Will refer you to CMSWire for this one — there’s a lot more details in that piece I wrote. Just as a side note, I am really curious to see how Day’s new CRX editions will impact the entire content management market, including traditional, open source and SaaS CMS vendors. There is a lot of power in what Day is now offering. Twitter messages indicate that Day’s competition is already afraid of Day keeping them “too busy” this year. Cool stuff 
On the other hand, I am also concerned about Day CQ5, which I also covered before. But I guess Nüscheler’s bright mind has got it all figured out.
Oh, and another piece of news from Day, which I normally would not have any interest in, but it was a really feel-good, heart-warming story (I could use one of those with my laptop powerstrip sitting in the bag Delta lost on my flight to SD from GA ) Couldn’t pass on it. Also referring to full coverage of that on CMSWire.
Day Opens Up, Empowers Developers With New CRX Releases
Day Software Awards First JCR Cup Winner (congrats, Russell Toris. I am sure you’re on cloud 9 )
Open Source Hippo CMS 7.0 Sports Revamped Core
Hippo, a vendor in open source Enterprise Content Management and Portal technology, has launched version 7.0 of its Content Management System.
In the new release, Hippo CMS boasts easier categorization of content “that is not found in other open source CMS product,” in addition to a completely revamped technology core based on Apache Jackrabbit.
The Apachean Jack-of-All-Rabbits devotion sounds quite familiar, doesn’t it?
Full article on CMSWire:
Day’s New CMO Kevin Cochrane Made My Day
Had a chat with Day’s newly-appointed chief marketing officer Kevin Cochrane on Thursday (interrupted by landing and boarding announcements) and this morning. Initially, wanted to get all the glorious details about Day’s new open source award, hoping that the conversation would morph into much more than that. And it did.
It’s a Swiss treats day for a Swiss vendor. Enterprise CMS provider Day Software has received the Swiss Open Source Award 2008 in the business category.
Recipe for success? Mix two tablespoons of Day with several pounds of a new chief marketing officer, who has arrived from Interwoven via the open source devout Alfresco. And, voila! The open source awards will follow.
Surely, I am not the first one to sing praises and speak highly of Kevin Cochrane. He knows his oats, and that doesn’t go unnoticed. But It was just so refreshing to talk to a knowledgeable CMO for a change. Pure magic. He made my day, I made his day (doubly), it was a good day, no pun intended
Granted, I am easily intrigued by anything related to Web Content Management. I get excited and start hyperventilating as soon as I hear the magic acronym CMS. But even if Cochrane was marketing llamas as sled dogs, I would probably buy into it.
Again, I am not the first one to come to a conclusion that Cochrane is a good fit for Day Software with his palpable passion about content management (without getting spread thin on all that ECM, DM stuff), combined with the ability to infuse others with this passion. This is exactly what I once wanted to be for a (omitting the names) WCM vendor.
Day has been long (over)due for good marketing techniques. Even boring white papers is something Day has still to explore. Must give it to Day’s PR firm. LEWIS PR has been staying on top of things lately.
I suspect with Cochrane’s contagious swirl of activity, Day will have a better chance of finally starting to pop up on more of U.S. short-lists.
Additionally, Day is (finally!) getting ready to release the latest version v5.0 of its WCM platfrom – Communiqué. Scheduled for mid-November CQ5 promises to be nothing but a piece of heaven. I can’t remember the last time I was so excited about a new WCM system release. Perhaps, when SDL Tridion R5.3 came out It’s been too long of a WCM slump for Day. CQ4 was released way back in 2005.
CQ5 looks nice on paper. I am always able to find flaws after seeing so many WCM systems, but, ,from what I’ve heard from Cochrane, CQ5 looks really promising. Still under embargo, so will tell you more next week after I get a chance to have a proper look-see at the product.
In his forth week with Day, the company’s new CMO is a pleasure to speak with. Cochrane is not a CMS newbie. He was the fourth employee at Interwoven, where he was responsible for Interwoven TeamSite product line for 10 years. But when key IT requirements aren’t being executed around core content management principles, R&D is short-staffed and the product is starting to deviate from responding to customers’ best interests — it is time to move on and start fresh. Alfresco fresh, in Cochrane’s case.
Alfresco, says Cochrane, offered that refreshing open source exuberance without any compromises. He spent 2.5 years at the commercial open source pioneer as a vice president of product management. But left even before Alfresco 3 was completed — although not without getting the commitment that Alfresco 3, with its so much needed GUI overhaul, would be brought to life.
At Day Software, Cochrane says he’s finding new things, hidden gems every day. Waking up every day and being thrilled about your job (“the easiest job in the world,” funny, haha, says Cochrane) is something not all of us have the luxury of.
Highlighting Cochrane’s wünderkind to wanderkind transformation, CMSWatch thinks Cochrane would spice up Day. I tend to agree: savvier (if any) marketing is definitely something that Day couldn’t get its act together on for a long time. Cochrane shows potential to shake things up and change this perception (which, as we know, is also reality).
More on Day’s ambitious 2009 plans, open source embrace, CMIS response, etc.,: Day Speaks on 2009 Plans, Open Source, CQ5 and More
Day Reacts to Enterprise CMS Interoperability Spec
It was fun talking to the almighty Nüscheler thru Day’s PR firm. He’s quite something, to be honest. Just look at his attack on Alfreso!
“As usual, Alfresco is making a lot of marketing noise about implementations despite that it has not even made it into a standards body yet.”
Following the initial introduction of the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) draft and reactions from Open Text and Alfresco, Day Software didn’t lag behind and responded to the proposed industry standard. Day thinks that it’s good having a standard that functionally matches on a protocol level to what JCR (JSR170/283) specifies on an API level for Java.
CMSWire had a chance to chat with Day’s CTO David Nüscheler, and here’s what we found out.
Irina Guseva
