Get your ticket for Process Mining Camp 2025 now and join us in Eindhoven from 14 – 16 May!

When you start using process mining, you notice that it seems refreshingly simple to do: You load your data, and – boom – there you have it, a visual map of your process. Easy! You pull the sliders, you play around with some filters, and it is so easy to get to some first, actionable insight about your process. It is truly a transformative experience.

Yet, while the above is certainly true, in reality you are just scratching the surface of what process mining has to offer. Process mining is a whole practice! After discovering a process map, you need to bring in other people, create different views for different stakeholders, refine your initial analysis questions, and measure the impact of changes in your organization. Now we are not in easy country anymore.

If you do not have a lot of experience, it is easy to run into roadblocks and get stuck. And even if you have done this for a while, especially if you are working alone, or when you don’t know many other process miners, it is not always obvious how you can take the next step and get more value out of your process analysis. For this, you need to learn new skills and methodological approaches. You need fellow process miners to give you some tips, and to show you their bag of tricks. And, sometimes, you just need some inspiration: Watching how others are approaching their work can give you lots of new ideas for what to try next.

Process Mining Camp is the place to be if you want to push your process mining practice to the next level. For up to three days, you can immerse yourself in the world of process mining, get out of your comfort zone, and gain a deeper and richer level of insight. You will meet curious and driven process mining professionals from all over the globe, and from all kinds of industries and professions. You will be expanding your horizon, discussing your challenges, learning from each other, and making new friends along the way. And, with a full day of intense, expert-guided workshops, we make sure that you bring home new skills and approaches, no matter your current level of expertise.

Process Mining Camp is the conference for you, the dedicated practitioner who is serious about process mining. You will improve your craft and skills over a series of three days:

• 14 May (Wednesday): Are you still relatively new to process mining? Then, we highly recommend that you join our optional boot camp on Wednesday, just before the regular camp starts. You will learn all the fundamental concepts that you need to understand, so that you can follow the discussions and get more out of camp. This is a great opportunity to combine camp with a condensed version of our renowned process mining training.

• 15 May (Thursday): On Thursday, you will first hear from a series of professionals about their process mining experiences in the practice talks. Learning how others have approached their problems is always helpful, and it gives you inspiration for your own use cases. It also allows us to ease into camp, setting the tone and sparking conversations to come. In the afternoon, you get together in small groups for the discussion roundtables to talk about your own challenges. Finally, during the evening program you will have lots of time to connect and recharge. Get to know your fellow campers, and take the time to follow up on the discussions, questions, and ideas that you had throughout the day.

• 16 May (Friday): On Friday, the last day of camp, you are diving deep during a full day of hands-on practice. You will participate in a sequence of three workshops that each cover different aspects of process mining. We designed these workshops specifically to speed up your learning process, by working on concrete, realistic scenarios that you can normally only get from real-life experience. You will leave camp with actionable insights, new approaches, and best practices that you can apply in your work right away.

Over the years, thousands of process mining enthusiasts from more than 34 countries have joined us at camp. You are going to meet people who apply process mining in their daily practice in completely different contexts. They will help you put your own challenges into perspective. Enjoy the friendly atmosphere, and meet old and new friends from all over the world!

→ Join us at this year’s camp and sign up before 14 March to benefit from the Night Owl discount here.

Camp is our favorite thing each year. We think you are going to love it, too, and we can’t wait to see you all in Eindhoven in May!

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.

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.

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:

• This is the article with the 13 process mining challenges and 95 best practices, from which we picked our favorite challenges during the café.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Use our data quality checklist to validate your data before the analysis.

• 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.

• Process Mining Preprocessing Tasks with Xixi Lu from Utrecht University.

• Case Study: Auditing With Process Mining by Jasmine Handler and Andreas Preslmayr from the City of Vienna.

• How To Be A Responsible Process Miner with Dirk Fahland and Felix Mannhardt from TU Eindhoven.

• 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.

• Our Privacy, Security, and Ethics guide shares Léonard’s ethical charter and discusses anonymization options.

• Collecting Process Mining Data With Privacy In Mind with Tobias Zepter from the BVV.

• Maikel van Eck, Xixi Lu, Sander Leemans, and Wil van der Aalst. PM2: a Process Mining Project Methodology, CAiSE, 2015.

• Our 12-step project guide helps you embed your process mining project in the methodology your organization already uses.

• The Business Case for Process Mining with Miguel Angel Gómez from PROA.

• How to simplify complex process maps.

• The skills and roles needed in your process mining project team.

• 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.

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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.

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