Major ECM vendors send content sharing standard to OASIS

 In fact, the players involved have been working on this standard, known as Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) since 2006.

As Razmik Abnous, VP and CTO at EMC CMA Division points out, many companies have multiple (sometimes even hundreds) repositories as a result of purchases made by individual departments or different locations, and further complicated by mergers and acquisitions. Trying to get these different systems to communicate with one another, up until now, has been a nightmare for IT staffs, which have been forced to create one-off connectors, middleware solutions or other expensive and time-consuming work-arounds.