Flexible Runtime Clients

TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM provides two different client applications (Openspace and Workspace) which meet different end-user requirements.

Both client applications also provide administrative and management interfaces - see Administration of TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM.

Openspace

Openspace is a highly customizable web client application that users can use as a gateway to their frequently used services. Users can add web content from different sources - for example, news web sites or corporate portal content. Users add content as gadgets and customize how that content is displayed.

Openspace users can:

  • interact with their work lists and with processes.
  • add native gadgets that are developed, contributed and published by TIBCO developers.
  • add third party gadgets that are published as social gadgets.
  • render third party web content within a gadget and add it to Openspace.

Openspace also provides access to the Organization Browser, which is used to perform various organization model and resource management tasks.

Workspace

Workspace provides an "out of the box" web client application that allows users to interact with their work lists and with processes.

Workspace is a component-based application that can be easily configured or customized according to the requirements of a particular enterprise. For example:

  • Users’ access to different parts of the Workspace user interface can be controlled by the use and interaction of privileges, system actions and user access sets.
  • Workspace components provide a set of data-aware user interface components that may be used to quickly develop full-screen web applications, embed functionality in web pages, or serve as portlets in a portal application.