Christian7 Feb

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 internet.
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.
Anne6 Feb
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.
Anne30 Jan
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!
Links
Here are the links that we mentioned during the session:
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This is the article with the 13 process mining challenges and 95 best practices, from which we picked our favorite challenges during the café.
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Vinicius Stein Dani, Henrik Leopold, Jan Martijn van der Werf, Iris Beerepoot, and Hajo Reijers. From Process Mining Insights to Process Improvement: All Talk and No Action?, CoopIS, 2023.
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Vinicius Stein Dani, Henrik Leopold, Jan Martijn van der Werf, and Hajo Reijers. Progressing from Process Mining Insights to Process Improvement: Challenges and Recommendations, EDOC, 2023.
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Vinicius Stein Dani, Henrik Leopold, Jan Martijn van der Werf, Iris Beerepoot, and Hajo Reijers. From Loss of Interest to Denial: A Study on the Terminators of Process Mining Initiatives, CAiSE, 2024.
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Use our data quality checklist to validate your data before the analysis.
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Garbage In, Garbage Out: Ensuring Data Quality for Process Mining with with Kanika Goel from Queensland University of Technology and Niels Martin from Hasselt University.
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Process Mining Preprocessing Tasks with Xixi Lu from Utrecht University.
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Case Study: Auditing With Process Mining by Jasmine Handler and Andreas Preslmayr from the City of Vienna.
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How To Be A Responsible Process Miner with Dirk Fahland and Felix Mannhardt from TU Eindhoven.
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In the Process Mining Café Sequences of Stuff, Léonard Studer from the City of Lausanne shared many practical tips about how to put people at ease when analyzing their work with process mining.
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Our Privacy, Security, and Ethics guide shares Léonard’s ethical charter and discusses anonymization options.
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Collecting Process Mining Data With Privacy In Mind with Tobias Zepter from the BVV.
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Maikel van Eck, Xixi Lu, Sander Leemans, and Wil van der Aalst. PM2: a Process Mining Project Methodology, CAiSE, 2015.
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Our 12-step project guide helps you embed your process mining project in the methodology your organization already uses.
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The Business Case for Process Mining with Miguel Angel Gómez from PROA.
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How to simplify complex process maps.
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The skills and roles needed in your process mining project team.
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How to deal with blindspots in your process through missing activities.
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.
Anne27 Jan

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.
Anne19 Dec ‘24
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.