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The Ultimus Collaborative Client enables users to participate seamlessly in business processes using their email or a Web browser without the need for any additional client-side software. In addition to accessing and working on their tasks, workers can collaborate, monitor their workload, return tasks, share work with co-workers, and perform many other administrative capabilities on their work. Ultimus provides several versions of the client for different platforms and applications including:
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Web Client - to be hosted in any HTML 3.2 browser.
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Outlook Client - which appears as a folder in Outlook.
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Custom Client - allowing users to develop their own client.
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SharePoint Web Parts - so the workload can be presented in a portal.ยง SharePoint Web Parts - so the workload can be presented in a portal.
The Ultimus Client manages all the communications with the process server and provides a simple, prioritized, and customizable task list for the user. Whenever the user selects an item from the task list, the electronic form for the task is displayed. Users can simply fill out the form and "send" it. The task is complete and the process moves forward. The Ultimus Client has dozens of collaboration features built into the product that enable ad hoc routing, conferring, sending memos, returning tasks, sharing workload, provide shared views, reassigning work and much more.

Figure: Ultimus Collaborative Client Showing Task Forwarding |