{{tag>Index Glossary Notification Process Business_Rule Login Intelligent_Business_Object}}
====== Notification ======

A notification is a way of communicating where a party can send a message to another party without having to identify itself and without expecting a reply back from the other party. It is entirely up to the other party to decide how to react upon receiving the notification. An e-mail is a good notification example.

**//[[glossary:aware_im]]//** allows sending notifications from a [[glossary:business_space|business space]] to [[glossary:intelligent_business_object|intelligent business objects]] defined in the business space, for example sending e-mails to customers. It also forwards incoming notifications into relevant business spaces, for example when an incoming e-mail arrives or a user [[glossary:login|logs]] into the business space in the [[glossary:operation_mode|operation mode]].

Notifications, like business objects, have [[glossary:attribute|attributes]] to hold communication information.