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Introduction to Business Space
Business Space provides a browser-based graphical user interface that lets users interact with content from products in the IBM BPM portfolio. It provides a customizable and collaborative environment for monitoring, reviewing, and administering common business processes, such as human task flows, mediations and modeling.
Business Space includes the concept of spaces, templates, pages and widgets. A space is a collection of pages based on a template, and a page is a canvas that contains a number of widgets. Widgets are the pluggable user interface components that you use to define the functionality of your business spaces. WebSphere ESB and IBM BPM ship a number of built-in templates and widgets.
In the context of WebSphere ESB, Business Space provides administrative capabilities. You can control and manage the applications installed on the system using these capabilities.