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Intro

This tutorial provides a brief introduction to PIPEFORCE's key components and concepts, without going into extensive details.

It is meant to give a first, simple overview about the core spaces and act as a starting point.

The Platform

PIPEFORCE is a turnkey cloud platform for operational excellence teams to do AI-based business process automation and data integration.

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Having these combined services you can 100% focus on your business related solutions.

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The Portal

The self service portal is the central starting point for both: employees, developers and customers.

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Upon logging in employees, customers and partners can see a list of available applications and easily start them by clicking one the tiles:

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The Business App

An business app in PIPEFORCE is typically the first step to build a business automation solution.

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You can learn more about apps here: App.

The Automation Pipeline

An automation pipeline (sometimes also called “data pipeline” or just “pipeline” in short) in PIPEFORCE is the “glue” between all data entities, workflows, executions and integrations of a business application.

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You can learn more about pipelines here:  Automation Pipelines.

The Command

Every automation pipeline consists of one or more commands.

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You can learn more about commands here: Commands.

The Workflow

More complex and stateful human interactions are defined in BPMN 2.0 workflows in PIPEFORCE.

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You can learn more about workflows here: BPMN Workflows.

The Command Line Interface (CLI)

The command line interface is a little command line tool, which can be used to automate tasks from your local command line and to manage a workspace.

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You can learn more about the CLI here: Command Line Interface (CLI).

The Property Store

The Property Store is a key-value database, which stores all resources (mainly JSON documents) related to your business apps. Any resource stored in this database is called a property in PIPEFORCE.

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