Process details page

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  • Updated July 31, 2025
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    Summary of Process details page

    The Process details page in Process Mining offers ServiceNow customers a centralized view of high-level insights, opportunities, and an interactive visualized process map for their projects. From this page, users can navigate between multiple tabs to analyze process performance, explore improvement opportunities, and manage project configurations.

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    Key Features

    • Tabs for In-Depth Analysis:
      • Summary and Insights: Displays speed, quality, and cost insights impacting the process along with key performance indicators (KPIs), transitions, and route variations.
      • Opportunity Details: Provides detailed information about specific improvement opportunities within the project.
      • Analyst Workbench: Opens the project dashboard featuring the visualized process map with functionalities like filtering, drill-down analyses, and route variant views.
      • Automation Opportunities: Identifies automation potential within IT Service Management (ITSM) workflows using machine learning and process-based analysis.
      • KPI Dashboard: Shows any configured KPI dashboards relevant to the project.
    • Overview Panel: Presents essential project information including project name, data scope, record counts, route counts, average and median durations, and standard deviation of route times. It also contains a menu for editing the project, changing project version names, or creating improvement initiatives.
    • Project Panel: Enables refined data filtering and access to route details, with tabs for business insights, filter management, route variant visualization, automation opportunities, and KPI dashboards.
    • Process Map: An interactive visualization accessible via the Analyst Workbench tab, allowing users to view and adjust process metrics, refine activity and connection detail levels, examine records per route, and perform bottleneck and other analyses such as transition, work notes, root cause, or cluster analysis directly from the map.
    • Notes, Initiatives, and Scheduled Tasks Panel: Provides tools to create and manage notes, snapshots, improvement initiatives, and monitor the status of scheduled mining and analysis tasks.

    Practical Use and Benefits

    ServiceNow customers can leverage the Process details page to gain comprehensive insights into their processes, identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies, and uncover automation potentials. The detailed visualizations and metrics enable informed decision-making to optimize process speed, quality, and cost. The ability to create and track improvement initiatives directly supports continuous process enhancement efforts. Furthermore, integration with KPI dashboards ensures alignment with business objectives and measurable outcomes.

    The process details page for Process Mining provides access to high level insights and opportunities in addition to the interactive visualized process map.

    From the process details page, you can do the following:
    • Select the Summary and Insights tab to see the speed, quality, and cost insights impacting your process.
    • Select the Opportunity details tab to access details about an improvement opportunity.
    • Select the Analyst workbench tab to access the project dashboard, where you can view the visualized process map for your project.
    • Select the Automation opportunities tab to find automation opportunities using machine learning and process-based analysis.
    • Select the KPI dashboard tab to see any KPI dashboard that you have configured in the project configuration.
    Note:
    To go back to the projects landing page where you can see all the project cards, select the Process Models tab.

    Overview panel

    When you mine and open a project, Analyst workbench opens.

    Overview panel
    The project's overview panel displays the following overview details and brief context menu.
    UI element Description
    Overview details Important information about a project.
    • Project name
    • Table that the data reports on
    • Total records in project's scope according to the filters applied
    • Number of routes represented within the records
    • Average number of days it took the records to close
    • Standard deviation variation from route duration average value
    • Median duration value
    Menu icon (...) Access the menu for additional options:
    Edit project
    Select this option to edit the current project. For more information, see Create a project or template using Project Builder.
    Edit Versions
    Select this option to change the name of a project version. For more information, see Change a project version name.
    Create CIM
    Select this option to create a new improvement initiative. For more information, see Create an improvement initiative from Process Mining.

    Project panel

    Within the project view, the project panel provides business insights, filter tools to refine the data view, and access to route details.
    UI element Description
    Summary and Insights tab See business goals, summary insights for your key performance indicators, transitions, and route variation. For more information, see eSummary and insights page.
    Analyst workbench tab Select this tab to access the following:
    • Breakdowns tab: Create and delete filter sets, and set advanced filter conditions.
    • Variants tab: View the routes distributed over the records in the data set.
    For more information, see Analyst workbench page.
    Automation Opportunities tab Helps to identify automation opportunities for your workflows. Only available for ITSM. For more information, see Automation opportunities page.
    KPI Dashboard tab Displays any KPI dashboard that you have configured in the project configuration.

    Process map

    The process map shows the visualized project and routes, and provides the following tools for filtering and drilling into its view. You can access the process map through the Analyst workbench tab.
    UI element Description
    Metrics The primary and secondary metrics to show on the process map.
    Refine

    Tune activities and connections on the map. Select this tab to access the following:

    • Activities tab: Increase or reduce the detail view of activities on the process map.
    • Connections tab: Increase or reduce the detail view of the connections between activities on the process map.
    Show Records View the records for one or more selected routes.
    Model Statistics Use statistics for the process model that help provide perspective when comparing to the overall model statistics. This tab shows the following statistics for the filtered records or selected variant route:
    • Metric: Indicates total, project-specific, or difference in metric values between compared projects.
    • Records: Number of filtered records that follow the selected route.
    • Routes: The number of routes that the filtered records followed.
    • Avg duration: The average number of days it took the filtered records or records in a selected route to close. This value compares with the average number of days duration across all records in the model.
    • Std Deviation: The variation from the route average duration value.
    • Med Duration: The middle duration value for routes.
    Bottleneck Analysis View the top transitions based on the metric filters you specify.
    Activity Legend The defined project activities that display on the process map with symbols connoting activity categories.
    Process map Interactive map from which you can view metrics for a process, add activity conditions to filter by, and perform other actions.
    Any analysis You can do a transition analysis, work notes analysis, root cause analysis, or cluster analysis from any transition or node from the graph.
    Zoom Enlarge or shrink the view of the process map.

    Notes, initiatives, and scheduled tasks panel

    The notes, initiatives, and scheduled tasks panel provides tools for creating and viewing notes, snapshots, and improvement initiatives. You can also see the status of mining tasks you've scheduled.
    UI element Description
    Model options icon (Model options icon) View and use of the bottleneck analysis.
    Global metrics icon (Global metrics icon) View the primary and secondary metrics.
    Notes iconNotes icon View the notes list, create a note, and edit or delete a note.
    Improvement initiatives icon (Initiatives icon) View the initiatives list, create a new initiative, link to an existing initiative, or remove an initiative.
    Scheduled tasks icon (Scheduled tasks icon) View the status of scheduled mining, filtering, and requested cluster analysis tasks.