Disco 4.1

Software Update

We are happy to announce the release of Disco 4.1.

This update focuses on the core Disco user experience, from importing data from CSV and Excel files, to deriving metrics and creating process maps. We have squashed the bugs, optimized the algorithms, and changed the oil.

Thanks for all your feedback and your bug reports. Keep it up and, as always, thank you for using Disco!

How to update

We recommend that you update to the latest version of Disco at your earliest convenience. Disco will automatically download and install this update the next time you run it, if you are connected to the internet1.

If you prefer to install this update of Disco manually, you can download and run the latest installer packages from fluxicon.com/disco/download

Changes

  • Process Map: Improved reliability of metrics generation.
  • CSV Import: Improved performance and stability.
  • Excel Import: Fixed a rare problem with huge spreadsheets.
  • Airlift: Improved performance.
  • Control Center: Improved hardware detection.
  • Connectivity:
    • Improved proxy detection.
    • Security updates.
  • Software Update: Fixed a bug that could prevent successful automatic updates in some situations.
  • Platform:
    • Fixed a rare race condition in the UI when massively multithreading.
    • Java update.

  1. You need to download and install this update manually to make sure you get the latest version of the Java runtime and graph layout. ↩︎

Process Mining Analysis Tip: How To Export the Audit Summary

Auditors use the same process mining tools as everyone else. But their analysis questions are slightly different. For example, they often focus on compliance questions rather than performance questions. If you have not seen it yet, you should read this excellent case study from the City of Vienna and you can find many more audit examples here.

Another thing that auditors need is a way to document their findings. In Disco, we developed an audit summary that fulfills the needs of the auditor together with the Central Audit Service in the Netherlands.

In this 4-minute video, we show you how you can export the audit summary from Disco.

Challenges and Best Practices

For the first Process Mining Cafe of the year, we invited Vinicius Stein Dani from Utrecht University to talk about the common challenges and best practices for process mining.

Vinicius, Rudi, and Anne discussed the importance and unimportance of data quality, data privacy, process mining methodologies, and domain expertise. What must you do to ensure your process mining initiative is successful? Watch the recording of the café here and find out — A big thanks to Vinicius and to all of you for joining us!

Here are the links that we mentioned during the session:

Contact us anytime at cafe@fluxicon.com if you have questions or suggestions about the café.


Have you seen that the Process Mining Café is also available as a podcast? So, if you prefer to listen to our episodes in your favorite podcast player, you can get them all here.

Sign up for our café mailing list and the YouTube playlist, follow Fluxicon on LinkedIn, or add the café calendar to never miss a Process Mining Café in the future.

Process Mining Café 38: Challenges

Process Mining Café 38

At last year’s Process Mining Camp, we collected 13 process mining challenges and 95 best practices.

We are going to talk about these process mining challenges in the next Process Mining Café together with our guest Vinicius Stein Dani from Utrecht University. Vinicius is the perfect guest for this episode because he has been working on understanding the effort, the challenges, and obstacles to progress process mining improvements in his research.

Which challenges and best practices do you see for process mining yourself? Join us! The café takes place this Wednesday, 29 January, at 15:00 CET (Check your timezone here). As always, you don’t need to register. Point your browser to fluxicon.com/cafe when it is time.

Sign up for the café mailing list here to receive a reminder one hour before the session starts. Or add the time to your calendar if you don’t want to miss it.

Process Mining Analysis Tip: How To Create a Baseline

If you don’t have the time to watch the full Process Mining Café about the Explorative Analysis right now, watch this 3-minute video about how to create a baseline in Disco.

Without the right baseline you will get incorrect results. In this short video, we show you how to create a good baseline in Disco.