FlowSpy: exploring Activity-Execution Patterns from Business Processes

This paper describes FlowSpy, an environment that addresses the understanding of business process behavior by combining the exploratory analysis of process executions and process key performance indicators. FlowSpy employs a sequence mining technique to discover and analyze the actual execution paths of business processes. It supports the detailed analysis of business behavior and the quantification of different execution flows, and offers abstraction mechanisms to deal with process complexity and different process views. FlowSpy has also features for the synergic exploration of information originated from both sequential mining techniques and measurements of processes, activities and resources. FlowSpy is part of a broader scenario for business process analysis, which also encompasses the capturing and preparation of process execution data, together with a wide range of functionalities for analysis, monitoring and visualization of such data.

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