Toward a CM standard

EMC and Adobe have joined forces to develop a standards-based interoperable content management infrastructure. The new infrastructure will reportedly combine EMC's enterprise content management (ECM) platform and Adobe's open standard Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) technology to deliver a solution to maximize distributed information sharing and management, enabling customers to manage data more intelligently and efficiently.

The collaboration will also support the emerging Interoperable Enterprise Content Management (iECM) standard being developed by AIIM. The iECM framework will address the growing need for a common integration layer between different enterprise content management systems and multiple business applications. It will include support for major industry standards such as SOAP, WSDL, BPEL, JCR (JSR-170) and others, organizing them in the context of content-rich application requirements. Additional information about iECM is available here.

Adobe describes XMP as an extensible and customizable framework that leverages standard XML structures to facilitate distributed information sharing and management. It is a labeling technology that can embed data about a content file into the file itself, enabling more innovative job processing, workflow automation and rights management. Through Adobe XMP, metadata can be assigned to content earlier in the information life cycle and prior to it being stored in the EMC Documentum repository, enabling users to automate the tagging and validation of content more effectively and intelligently.