Similar to ODMA, the Shamrock Document Management Coalition is the result of an industry led initiative. The aim of the Shamrock initiative, whose main partners included IBM and Saros, was to specify a middleware layer to be inserted between applications and document servers that would provide a common set of tools for document security, administration and access. Shamrock allows applications to access multiple DMS's as compared to ODMA which allows multiple applications to access the same DMS. Other Shamrock partners include Adobe, EDS, Frame Technology, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Verity, ViewStar, and Wang together with ODMA members Documentum, Interleaf, PC DOCS, Sybase and XSoft. (see ODMA).