Proceedings

Abstract:

Increasingly organizations want to manage content from an enterprise perspective, across departments and content and asset management systems. XML is a key enabling technology for integrating disparate systems, repositories, and business processes. However, both ECM vendors and end-users alike promote and employ XML in various different ways.

In some cases, XML is used as an abstraction layer across repositories. In other cases, XML is used for content and data interchange. XML is often employed for enterprise metadata ("reference") repositories.

XML adoption has been somewhat uneven, however, partly because ECM and content integration vendors use XML in highly different ways, and because standards adoption has remained uneven.

This session will look at some emerging models in the industry and attempt to identify some implementation patterns. It will also examine which standards appear to have the most traction in the marketplace.