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This final report on the Esprit project ORCHESTRA deals with the design and development of an advanced groupware environment. It provides a global perspective on the project from the technical research and development and marketingThe Orchestra (Organizational Change Evolution Structuring and Awareness) project as the name suggests was the result of the contributions of a number of people and organizations whose collaborative efforts made the project and its results possible. This report provides readers with a global perspective on the project its conceptual roots the developed technologies the partners and the users. The following subsection is a long but necessary acknowledgement to a large number of people from the several organizations that participated in the project: INESC (P) SMD (P) Software AG (DIE) UPM (E) Lisle (E) Novabase (P) EDP (P) Edinfor (P) CN (P) ISCTE (P) UITESA(E) T ASKON (N). Without these organizations and the people mentioned below the project would not have been possible. The uninvolved reader is therefore asked to forgive us for this long acknowledgement and go directly to the fIrst chapter. Acknowledgments This is a personal acknowledgment of the contributions of most of those people and an anticipated apology to anyone who may have been left out of this large list. The persons are mentioned in the order of the organizations they belong to just for the sake of not losing tr1. Introduction. 2. Rationale and Birth of the Orchestra Project. 2.1 A Conceptual Framework. 2.2 The Objectives of Orchestra. 2.3 A Bit of History. 2.3.1 The Initial Consortium and Proposal. 2.3.2 Proposal Revision and Final Configuration. 3. Functionality of the Orchestra Environment. 3.1 Organizational Analysis. 3.1.1 Analysis Methodology and Information Gathering. 3.1.2 ComputerBased Modeling. 3.2 Office and Workflow Platform. 3.2.1 The Orchestra User Environment. 3.2.2 Workflow. 3.2.3 Security in Orchestra. 3.2.4 Global Information System. 3.3 Communication. 3.3.1 Enhanced Messaging. 3.3.2 Contextual Communication Services. 3.4 Decision and Group Interaction. 3.4.1 Management & Executive Information Systems in Orchestra. 3.4.2 Interactive Negotiation Tools. 4. Architectural Issues in Orchestra. 4.1 Logical Architecture. 4.2 Specific Architectural Configurations. 4.2.1 Document Archive Architecture. 4.2.2 Document Generator Architecture. 4.2.3 Workflow Engine Architecture. 4.2.4 Security Architecture. 4.2.5 Global Information System Architecture. 4.2.6 MAPI Integration. 4.2.7 Contextual Communication Architecture. 4.2.8 MEIS Plug Architecture. 4.2.9 Interactive Negotiation Tools Architecture. 4.3 Mechanisms for Modularity. 4.3.1 Secure and Remote Archive API. 4.3.2 Orchestra/Elenix 3.0 Document Generator API. 4.3.3 Orchestra Workflow API EWA (VI.00 Jul/96). 4.3.4 Orchestra/Elenix 3.0 Mail Api ESMA (V2.00 Jun/96). 5. Technical Information on Components and Prototypes. 5.1 Taskon/OORAM Technical Data. 5.1.1 Hardware and Operating Systems. 5

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