Analyze

The Analyze group in the project menu holds the screens that look at your process from each angle. They read the event log in use - shown in the top bar - and what you set up under Define, such as your rules and saved filters. Task Mining is the exception: it reads desktop recordings you upload, not the event log.

The screens, and the question each one answers

Screen The question it answers
Process Maps What does the process look like, and which paths do the cases take between steps?
Variants How many different ways does the work run, and how much of it follows the usual path?
Conformance Does the process run the way it is meant to, and which cases do not?
Performance How long do cases take, and where does the time go?
Automations Which steps could a machine take over, and what would that give back?
Task Mining How do people do the work on their own computers?
Simulation What would a change to the process save?
Predictions Which running cases are likely to go wrong, while there is still time to act?

Task Mining works from recordings made with the Task Mining Agent, a small Windows program. If you still use the earlier recorder, see Task Mining Agent, Version 1.

Where to start

  1. Open Process Maps to see the shape of the process and its main path.
  2. Open Variants to see how many ways the work really runs.
  3. Then go where your question is: Conformance for "are we doing it right", Performance for "where is the time going", Automations for "what could a machine do".

Looking at some of the cases

Several Analyze screens can look at part of the log instead of all of it:

  • On Process Maps, click a path or an activity to narrow the map to those cases. A chip at the top says what you are looking at, and Take it to carries the same cases to Variants or Performance.
  • On Conformance and Performance, Saved filter applies a filter saved on Filters.

The screens say which cases their figures are for. A view that always works from the whole log, such as the BPMN Map, says so when a filter is on.

Good to know

  • Looking, clicking and filtering on these screens does not change your event log.
  • To turn what you find into something to read and share, see Reports.