Workplace Foundation
Workplace Foundation templates are
common components that can be used to either build a workplace or to supplement
business solutions. They represent core foundation elements of
a workplace and examples of collaborative applications that are not specific to
a given business function or process. Thus, Workplace Foundation elements
can be used in various places
within a workplace.
Business Solutions are all made up
of different Workplace Foundation elements. For instance, the Sales Pipeline
solution is actually a special purpose workspace. The Internal Project Teams
business solution has a dashboard and a workspace.
The Workplace Foundation group has
the following five categories:
- Workspace – The core place where
information is stored and people work together
- Portals, Dashboards, Personas –
Interfaces for communities, groups, role-based, and individuals to access
information throughout the workplace
- Workplace Accessories –
Collaborative solutions used throughout a workplace
- Generic Templates – Starter
templates used to build solutions from "scratch"
- Workplace Administration
– A special interface which is used to build and configure
components and solutions, and centrally
manage a workplace