Process intelligence, explained

What is
process mining?

Process mining reconstructs how work actually happened from the digital traces left in business systems. It turns event data into a living view of the real process, including every path, delay, rework loop and deviation.

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The simple definition

Your systems already record the process. Process mining makes it visible.

Every order, invoice, payment or approval leaves a timestamped trace. Process mining connects those traces by business case and orders them into the sequence that actually occurred.

This creates an objective process model from data, not from interviews or an ideal flowchart. Teams can compare expected execution with reality and move from an aggregate signal to the exact cases behind it.

01Case IDWhich order, invoice or business object?
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02ActivityWhat happened?
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03TimestampWhen did it happen?

Users, values, customers, companies and documents add the business context needed to explain why the process behaves that way.

From records to reality

Reconstruction is the foundation. Insight is the outcome.

01Connect

Collect the digital traces.

Bring together transactions, event timestamps, users and business objects from ERP, CRM and workflow systems.

02Reconstruct

Build the real sequence.

Order every event by case and time to reveal the actual path, waiting periods, handoffs and repeated work.

03Discover

Find patterns that matter.

Compare variants, cycle times, touchless execution and conformance across the complete available population.

04Improve

Turn evidence into action.

Prioritize root causes by impact, route cases to owners or automations, and monitor whether the result improves.

Evidence, not assumption

See the process.
Then verify every conclusion.

A selected case connects its source records, ordered event history and reconstructed path in one view. The insight remains explainable because the supporting evidence never disappears.

PISE Process ExplorerCase evidence connected
PISE process mining view showing case data, event history and reconstructed Order-to-Cash path
One selected O2C case, reconstructed from its recorded events and connected to source-level evidence. Illustrative product view
SignalA case waits 30 days after invoice output is blocked.
EvidenceEvery activity, timestamp, user and source record is visible.
DecisionFix the failure point and route affected cases to an owner.
What process mining reveals

Questions a conventional dashboard cannot answer alone.

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Variants

Which paths are actually followed, how often, and where do exceptional routes appear?

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Bottlenecks

Where does work wait, which handoff creates delay, and how much cycle time is lost?

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Rework

Which activities repeat, reverse or create avoidable manual effort across the process?

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Automation potential

Which activities are touchless today and where can automation remove repeated intervention?

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Conformance

Where does execution deviate from approved sequences, policies or control requirements?

06

Business impact

Which process behavior affects cash, cost, customer outcomes, capacity or risk?

Where PISE goes further

Process mining explains the flow. PISE helps change the outcome.

01Process reconstruction

Discover real paths, variants, waiting time, rework and deviations.

02Business context

Connect behavior with customers, financial value, risk and strategic priorities.

03Decision intelligence

Explain what matters, quantify the impact and identify the best intervention point.

04Execution and value

Send work to people or automations, preserve evidence and measure the result.

In plain language

Common questions.

Is process mining just another dashboard?+

No. A dashboard summarizes selected metrics. Process mining reconstructs the sequence behind those metrics and preserves the route from an aggregate pattern to each contributing case and event.

Does it replace business intelligence?+

No. BI remains useful for reporting and visualization. Process mining adds sequence, time and case context, answering how a result was produced and where execution diverged.

Does the source data need to be perfect?+

No, but the event model must be governed. PISE makes data coverage and assumptions visible so teams understand what the reconstruction includes and where quality should improve.

How is evidence preserved?+

Every finding can remain connected to its affected population, cases, source objects, activities, timestamps, users and calculations.

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