What are spaces in Profiles?

A space in Profiles is where you create a multi-tiered hierarchy of accounts or profiles. A space is the top entity containing profiles. A space can be either a global space or a sector-specific space. A global space includes profiles that are common across the enterprise. A sector-specific space represents a business unit and contains extended and customized profiles.

The Profiles team works with multiple stakeholders to find standardized definitions across Trimble and updates these definitions to maximize the similarities that enable interoperability. Should a specific property or relationship apply to an entity only in specific contexts that are not truly global, you can define those contexts using Profiles spaces.

Federated governance with spaces

Trimble uses spaces to define contextual limits to the scope of a definition, enabling federated governance by providing a way for specific divisions or teams to add to the Enterprise Data Model to suit their more unique needs. A team or division within a space extends profile types from the global space with their properties and relationships or defines new profile types.

The Trimble Profiles Team can use these spaces to look for candidate concepts that should become more widespread within Trimble.

Global spaces

The global space contains common profiles that are shared across the enterprise. The Cloud Platform team maintains the global space.

The default profile type provided by global space includes:

• user
• account
• asset

While working with Profiles, the default space is global unless otherwise specified. The list of spaces is presently unavailable via API. Please contact the Engagement team if you wish to explore the possibility of creating and using a space or spaces.