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WorkFusion provides a full range of components allowing comprehensive Enterprise automation. To understand the goals of each component included in IA Cloud Developer and how components work together, first, let's group them on a high level.

Now, let's look at each component description and the functions it provides.

Launcher

Description	Launcher is the management desktop application, which allows to start and stop local server components, as well as access their logs and search in them.
Related components	Control Tower, WorkSpace, RPA, OCR, Object Storage, WorkFusion Studio, Secrets Vault, RabbitMQ, Nexus Repository
Covered functionality	Local server components management Monitoring components processes Handling logs data

Control Tower

Description	Control Tower is the central managing web application, which orchestrates automation processes and tasks, and provides a user interface for power users, admins, and developers.
Related components	WorkSpace, Workflow, RPA, AutoML, OCR, Object Storage, WorkFusion Studio
Covered functionality	Automation processes management Creating and editing workflows using GUI tools Running and monitoring automations Handling input and output data User and role management Manual tasks management System-wide configuration

WorkSpace 2.0

Description	WorkSpace 2.0 is a local web application for manual task management.
Related components	Control Tower, Object Storage
Covered functionality	Manual tasks queue management Manual tasks processing

WorkFusion Studio

Description	WorkFusion Studio is an Eclipse-based IDE used to develop Bot configurations.
Related components	Control Tower, ODF, OCR, AutoML, RPA, Object Storage
Covered functionality	Creating, editing, and publishing Bot configurations Recording user workflows Inspecting desktop applications

Service level

ODF

Description	Open Development Framework (ODF) provides high-level components and API for data processing, architecture for large RPA and ML automation, support for dependency injection, unit and integration testing, reduces usage of XML code, adds deployment automation.
Related components	WorkFusion Studio, Control Tower, Nexus Repository
Covered functionality	Quick project start from archetypes Multi-team SDLC and internal components sharing Business process data flow optimized for developers Scalable RPA architecture Java API wrappers for WebHarvest WorkFusion components Tools for CI/CD based on the SPOKE testing framework Library of ODF OOTB components

BEP

Description	Bot Execution Platform (BEP) is the engine that increases AutoML performance and the number of running workers. The platform creates tasks and submits them to queues.
Related components	Control Tower, AutoML, Workflow, RPA
Covered functionality	Horizontal scaling of workers Bot execution isolation Reuse of shared resources (cluster nodes) both by Control Tower and AutoML tasks Task processing fault-tolerance Aggregation of logs and metrics from tasks and workers

RPA

Description	RPA Cluster is a scalable computing environment that executes user scenarios within desktop or web applications. It takes control of the keyboard and mouse pointer to emulate user inputs.
Related components	WorkFusion Studio, Control Tower, Bot Manager, BEP, Secrets Vault, Database
Covered functionality	Automation of user scenarios within desktop and web applications

OCR

Description	OCR engine converts unstructured, image-based data into structured character documents in several formats (HTML, XML).
Related components	WorkFusion Studio, Control Tower, WorkSpace, Object Storage, Secrets Vault, Database, RabbitMQ
Covered functionality	OCR processing of scanned documents

Workflow

Description	Workflow Engine executes automation processes authored in Control Tower. This is the server application configured within Control Tower.
Related components	Control Tower, RPA, WorkSpace, AutoML
Covered functionality	Automation Process execution according to process definition created in Control Tower. Execution is handled in different computing environments—RPA, WorkSpace, OCR, and AutoML.

Nexus Repository

Description	Nexus is a repository manager. It allows to proxy, collect, and manage dependencies so that developers aren't constantly juggling a collection of JARs. Internally, the team configures a build to publish artifacts to Nexus for them to become available to other developers.
Related components	Control Tower, ODF, WorkFusion Studio
Covered functionality	Single source of truth for all your project Java components, binaries, and build artifacts Efficient distribution of parts and containers to developers, OOTB integration with most of Java tools WorkFusion Java dependencies provider

Data level

Database

Description	Database stores business process definitions, runtime, and tracking information on their execution, including RPA and Cognitive automation.
Related components	Control Tower, Bot Manager, WorkSpace, Analytics, OCR
Covered functionality	Reliable storage of the designed automation implementation

Secrets Vault

Description	Secrets Vault is a secured storage destination for sensitive data.
Related components	Control Tower, Bot Manager, RPA, OCR
Covered functionality	This is related to the solution’s non-functional requirements: Storing authentication data (logins and passwords) for applications involved in automation and providing secure access to it during business process execution Storing authentication data for WorkFusion Intelligent Automation Cloud inter-component interaction

Object Storage

Description	Object Storage based on the Minio tool keeps binary file type content, such as OCR results, AutoML models, screenshots, and reports generated by automation.
Related components	WorkFusion Studio, Workflow, OCR, AutoML
Covered functionality	Reliable storage of OCR results and trained AutoML models