Dan Grady
ServiceNow Employee

Stories have been a part of all human cultures since the beginning of time.

They are very often the most effective way to communicate any type of information because our brains like to arrange things in a simple way, it just makes it easier to remember things.

Every great story has a memorable structure - a beginning, a middle, and an end – that familiar sequence of events makes it easier to recall pieces of information at any particular point in the story than if we just had a big pool of unstructured information to wade through.

Moving pictures, or movies, fundamentally changed storytelling. The structure of a good story remained the same, but they could be told at a faster pace with visuals to enhance the way ideas were communicated.

Like movies, process mining is revolutionizing the way we tell the story of how efficiently our organization is operating.

All our organizations are a collection of interconnecting processes, and every process - like a story - has a structure. Process mining gives us the ability to, in a very rapid fashion, visually tell the true story behind how our organization is operating and more effectively communicate opportunities to increase the speed of getting things done, raise our productivity levels, and remove risk from our processes.

The video clips below walk through the why and what of ServiceNow’s in-platform process mining solution using moving pictures. 

The first video introduces our unique “closed loop” approach to process mining.

And the second is a demonstration of the solution in action, telling the story of a process, in a new, but memorable way.

 

Why and What of in-platform Process Mining overview presentation

 

 

Demo

 

 

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Comments
Tera Contributor

In analyst workbench, count of total records in model is different from the records mined. Why all the records do not get mined. In the above video total records in the model shows 22.9k but actual records shown are 22.5k

ServiceNow Employee
ServiceNow Employee

@Akanksha35 that is a good observation.  The reason you'll see different numbers there is that not all the records have audit log data associated to them.  So in this case 22.9K incidents met the criteria we defined when we configured the project but only 22.5K incidents had associated audit data.

Tera Contributor

Thank-you for giving the answer. 

Tera Contributor

Hi Dan, 

 

I have another question. I have used table rm_story in Process model definition and then generated the full model for it. Process flow in the analyst workbench is successfully created. But I have not done any process configurations for this table under Process Optimization > Process Configurations module neither this table has some associated Cluster with it. How the process flow is generated? I have observed an entry created automatically in table Process optimization Definitions[ml_capability_definition_promin] for rm_story.

As per my observation/understanding, process configuration and cluster definition is required to generate a process flow. Correct me if i am wrong here.  I am saying this because firstly I installed process optimization plugin only and I created Process model definition [on table incident] for the same and tried to generate the flow but did not work and failed with error. Then I Install the ITSM Process optimization content pack. I generated the model for the same process model definition which got failed earlier with error related to ml_capability_definition_promin table. It was successfully generated.

Could you please help me to understand whether process configuration and cluster definition is required to generate a process flow.