CMS Advisory: ECM systems are not SOA-compatible
By Staff -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 4/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
CMS Watch, an Olney, Md.-based analyst firm that evaluates content technologies, finds enterprise content management (ECM) products ill-equipped to meet the security requirements of service-oriented architecture (SOA).
“Separating out the SOA hype from the ECM reality remains difficult, as vendors have aggressively positioned their products as SOA-ready—while most are not,” says Alan Pelz-Sharpe, lead analyst for the CMSWatch report on SOA. “When vendors talk about SOA, they mostly mean that they have SOAP-enabled their APIs, but that's not really the point.”
CMSWatch says an SOA-ready ECM solution should have these characteristics:
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Awareness of the location of content items, whether originals, duplicates, or previous versions;
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Interactivity with Identity Management protocols and products;
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Real-time, bidirectional integration with directory servers;
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Ability to remotely control access to content items;
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Ability to track change history on content items occurring remotely; and
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Synchronizing off-line devices to monitor and manage data copied there.
