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Stefan Waldhauser is the founder and CEO of WeWebU Software, a specialist in Enterprise Information Management. With the WeWebU products, enterprises can access their complete information infrastructure via a unified, process-oriented working environment. WeWebU operates internationally. It cooperates with leading EIM manufacturers and consulting firms and is an IBM Advanced Business Partner as well as Alfresco Solutions Partner. He can be reached on Twitter (@WeWebU) or via LinkedIn http://de.linkedin.com/in/stefanwaldhauser. AIIM has been extensively involved in the CMIS project. In the later part of 2008, OASIS announced the formation of a committee to standardize a web services interface specification that will enable interoperability of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems. EMC, IBM and Microsoft lead the way by developing the initial draft for the standard. Other EMC vendors such as Alfresco, Open Text, Oracle, SAP and others reviewed this intial draft and provided comments on the draft prior to selecting OASIS to advance the standard through the standardization process. There are a host of resources and presentations available at the AIIM Official Guide to CMIS. 8 reasons why CMIS will transform the ECM industry 1 -- CMIS is the SQL for Content Management. According to OASIS the objective of the CMIS standard...