We are happy to announce the release of Disco 3.6.

This update makes loading your log data into Disco even faster and more reliable, especially if you are importing from CSV or Excel documents. We have also thoroughly updated Disco’s foundation, so you should expect better performance, less bugs, and improved security all around.

Thanks for all your feedback, you are really doing the Lord’s work here. 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

• CSV Import: Improved stability and performance.
• Excel Import: Improved stability and performance.
• XES Export: Fixed validation issues.
• macOS: Fix graph layout for some Apple silicon users stuck on Big Sur.
• Connection: Improved stability.
• Control Center: Improved hardware detection.
• Platform:
  • Java update.
  • Streamlined dependencies.

In our next Process Mining Café this Wednesday, Rudi and I will discuss what it takes to create a good project plan for your process mining project. Join us!

The café takes place this week, Wednesday, 20 September, at 15:00 CEST! (Check your timezone here). As always, there is no registration required. Simply point your browser to fluxicon.com/cafe when it is time. You can watch the café and join the discussion while we are on the air, right there on the café website.

Sign up for the café mailing list here to receive a reminder one hour before the session starts.

Tune in live for Process Mining Café by visiting fluxicon.com/cafe this week, Wednesday, 20 September, at 15:00 CEST! Add the time to your calendar if you don’t want to miss it.

In this last Process Mining Café before our summer break, we spoke with Nuno Serra from Food4Sustainability CoLAB in Portugal.

If you are creative, you can find process mining data in unexpected places. Nuno showed us how he turned static data from an agricultural government funding program into a process view. After creating timestamps and activities from implicit information, he could analyze how farmers requested more or less aid over the years in the context of the development of their farms.

You can now watch the recording here if you missed the live broadcast or want to re-watch the café. Thanks again to Nuno and to all of you for joining us!

Links

Here are the links that we mentioned during the session:

• Information and brochure about the project (both in Portuguese)

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

Have you already seen that the Process Mining Café is now 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 to our café mailing list, the YouTube playlist, follow Fluxicon on LinkedIn, or add the café calendar to never miss a Process Mining Café in the future.

Food4Sustainability CoLAB is a non-profit association dedicated to innovation in sustainable food production. Nuno Serra is the director at Food4Sustainability and has used process mining to evaluate the effect of public policy on farmers.

In our next Process Mining Café this Wednesday, Nuno will show us how he tweaked the data to be able to use it for process mining and what kind of analyses he could then do with it. Join us!

Discuss public policy and data magic with us this week, Wednesday, 19 July, at 15:00 CEST! (Check your timezone here). As always, there is no registration required. Simply point your browser to fluxicon.com/cafe when it is time. You can watch the café and join the discussion while we are on the air, right there on the café website.

Sign up for the café mailing list here to receive a reminder one hour before the session starts.

Tune in live for Process Mining Café by visiting fluxicon.com/cafe this week, Wednesday, 19 July, at 15:00 CEST! Add the time to your calendar if you don’t want to miss it.

In the latest Process Mining Café, Rudi and I went through the most frequent questions around data. An event log is something that you make, and getting the data is often one of the first challenges you have at the beginning of your process mining project.

We also show you two common data transformations based on a practical example. Building the data on a logical level is a crucial step in understanding the choices you make preparing the data. Even a small sample data set can serve as the blueprint to explain how you need the data to be.

You can now watch the recording here if you missed the live broadcast or want to re-watch the café. Thanks again to all of you for joining us!

Links

Here are the links that we mentioned during the session:

• Data extraction checklist

• Marc Tollens from KLM shows how he analyzed Jira data at Process Mining Camp 2018

• Mark Pijnenburg and Carmen Bratosin analyzed data from the MRI machines at Philips Healthcare during Process Mining Camp 2019

• Skills and roles needed in your process mining team

• Manual activities need to be taken into account when you interpret your process map

• Which process mining project should you start with?

• Data suitability checklist

• Data requirements for new IT systems

• Jasmine Handler and Andreas Preslmayr did their own data preparation in this audit project, which enabled them to fully understand the data and the choices that needed to be made

• Combining data sets in Excel, in an ETL tool, and with SQL

• Column-formatted data often has missing timestamps for activity repetitions

• Transposing the data in Excel and with an ETL tool

• Put additional information in separate columns to preserve the flexibility to unfold individual activities

• You can get creative and find data for process mining everywhere. See also the Process Mining Café with Léonard Studer from the City of Lausanne in Switzerland, where we look at different examples of “Sequences of Stuff”

• Privacy, Security, and Ethics are becoming more and more important. See also the Process Mining Café with Dirk Fahland and Felix Mannhardt from TU Eindhoven, where we talk about how to be a responsible process miner

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

Have you already seen that the Process Mining Café is now 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 to our café mailing list, the YouTube playlist, follow Fluxicon on LinkedIn, or add the café calendar to never miss a Process Mining Café in the future.