Last week’s Process Mining Café was all about legacy systems. Two veterans of the trace, Steve Kilner and Derek Russel, joined us for a discussion on the role process mining can play in better understanding, and improving, legacy systems. You can now watch the recording here.
Our session started with a primer on what legacy systems are in the first place: Old systems that are often poorly understood and critical at the same time. Process mining can help to understand both how these systems are actually used, as well as how the processes that are run on them can be improved.
We also discussed the different approaches to get process mining data from these old systems: Some may have existing logs that can be used. Other setups need to be instrumented or otherwise observed.
Here are the links that we mentioned during the session:
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The first legacy system mining application at an Australian government agency in 2009
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Process mining example of a completely automated process in a parcel handling system by Boris Nikolov from Vanderlande at Process Mining Camp 2019
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Electronics manufacturer process mining case study involving multiple companies
Thanks again, Derek and Steve, for joining us!
Anne Rozinat
Market, customers, and everything else
Anne knows how to mine a process like no other. She has conducted a large number of process mining projects with companies such as Philips Healthcare, Océ, ASML, Philips Consumer Lifestyle, and many others.
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