Collaborative Workspace

Collaborative Modelling in the Cordys Collaborative Workspace

Cordys BOP provides an integrated development environment called the Cordys Collaborative Workspace (CWS) where both business and IT users can collaborate in a browser to design complete process driven solutions following a “what-you-model-is what-you-execute” approach.

Cordys Collaborative Workspace, with its unified metamodel, allows for immediate validation and correction of models (including processes) based on the changes in other models, such as web forms, business rules, organizational models, business calendars, etc. As all the design artifacts are defined in a single meta-data driven repository, Cordys has created all the relevant associations between these design artifacts. This translates into powerful benefits such as active guidance for business and IT professionals during design of process models. Cordys “knows” which services can be logically connected to a process model.

The single browser based workspace and configurable views of models allow the business and IT teams to collaborate during process design, development, execution, and enhancement.

Cordys Collaborative Workspace provides a set of standard facilities to all modelers:

• Where used: Based on the associations between models, as expressed in the metamodel, CWS automatically provides “where used” overviews. This is an important tool during impact analysis and refactoring.
• User interface: Common look and feel across modelers is facilitated through an advanced UI framework.
• File system synchronization: The content of a CWS workspace can be synchronized to a file system directory, to enable interaction with SCM tools, use of file-based editors and IDEs. It also helps in easy exchange of workspace content.
• Import/export: A plug-in framework supports generic import/export of models. XPDL import/export ships out-of-the-box, other import/export plug-ins can be developed as needed.
• Build: The build engine takes care of building all the changed documents.
• Package: content-elements which together form an application can be packaged into logical grouping so that it can be published on the same server or transferred to different environment. Cordys supports full staging concept following Development, Test, Acceptance & Production (DTAP) principle.
• Publish: the application package can be published and deployed by single click in the target environment.