Glossary

Event log

Also called: event logs

A structured trail in which each process instance records case, activity, timestamp, user and action.

A structured trail in which each process instance records case, activity, timestamp, user and action. It is the raw material for process mining and is produced natively when the process runs on the platform.

Its three minimum columns — case, activity and timestamp — decide whether process mining is possible at all. Many systems record what happened without recording which case it belongs to, and that is where the discipline stops.

Related terms

Conformance checking

The quantification of the proportion of real cases that respect the approved design, its rules and its controls.

Process instance

A concrete, individual execution of a process: a case, a request, a file. It is the unit on which evidence accumulates, timings are measured and fulfilment of the objective is verified in…

Process intelligence platform

A platform that mines, analyses, models and monitors processes from the event data real systems already produce.

Process mining

Reconstructing how a process actually runs from the event logs its systems already produce, rather than from what people describe in workshops.