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ajrajes
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10 years ago

Process Mining using Power BI

Hello,

 

I am looking at this Power BI webpage where KPMG has incorporated "process mining" visualisation into Power BI which is amazing. See here..

https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiNTY2N2QzNDUtZTI1NC00ZDYyLThlOWQtYWY1ZmYyNzU1ZWVjIiwidCI6IjU3NGMzZTU2LTQ5MjQtNDAwNC1hZDFhLWQ4NDI3ZTdkYjI0MSIsImMiOjZ9

 

However, Power BI does not offer process mining capabilities by default. Could someone please help me understand the best way to bring 'process mining' within Power BI?

 

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  • ankitpatira's avatar
    ankitpatira
    Community Champion
    10 years ago

    ajrajes is your question about visuals that are produced or the actual process of process mining ? From what little I know process mining requires complex algorithms applied to the data. Power bi is your visualisation tool. While you can do data manipulation tasks in power bi you can't do complex algorithms that process mining requires. You should look at ways of doing it outside power bi and then importing final set of data for visualisation. You can consider other technologies from Azure eco system which blends in well with power bi.

    • ajrajes's avatar
      ajrajes
      Frequent Visitor
      10 years ago

      ankitpatira: thanks for your response. basically I am seeking a way of providing Process Mining visualiation to the users via Power BI. This will empower the business users to analyse their business using standard charts/graphs and analyse their business processes simultaneously using confiormed dimensions. If you can refer to the link below, KPMG has tried something similar (possibly using an API). I would be greatful if someone can advise on how I can achieve something similar. I understand that the process mining alrithms are complex, but there has to be a way to achive this technically :) 

      https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiNTY2N2QzNDUtZTI1NC00ZDYyLThlOWQtYWY1ZmYyNzU1ZWVjIiwidCI6IjU3NGMzZTU2LTQ5MjQtNDAwNC1hZDFhLWQ4NDI3ZTdkYjI0MSIsImMiOjZ9

      • mitale's avatar
        mitale
        New Member
        10 years ago

        Hi ajrajes, I'm not familiar with the specifics of what KPMG has exactly done here, but looks like they have included screen captures of some process mining tool in these slides and combined them with process performance figures which they most likely have crunched with Power BI.

        Combining process mining with Power BI and MS Excel in general makes a lot of sense and although the algorithms behind it might be complex you don't need to worry about those if you use some ready made tool. Have a look at this video (https://player.vimeo.com/video/135555707?api=1) on how we have done it and check some more details from http://www.qpr.com/products/qpr-processanalyzer We offer a client running on top of Excel which naturally let's you then expand the usage of process mining with any Excel functionalities

        Let me know if you want to hear more.

        BR,

        Mika