Apromore

With over a decade of research experience in process mining, the contributors behind Apromore engineered extensive academic expertise into their solution. The open-source software is available as a free Community Edition and as a subscription-based Enterprise Edition that includes commercial add-ons, connectors and services. Apromore offers robust process discovery capabilities, process comparison, conformance checking and an authoring environment to manipulate BPMN process models. Predictive process monitoring is available as well and can be fine-tuned with sophisticated settings by experienced users. Apromore finds application in the public sector, banking, insurance, telecommunications and more. The provider raised close to USD 5 million in a Series A funding round in mid-2020 with plans to further extend and improve the functionality of its platform.

Tool Name

Apromore

Vendor

Apromore Pty Ltd (Melbourne, Australia)

Company Size

11-50 employees

Free Trial

Immediate access

Licenses

Free (LGPL 3.0), Commercial

Enterprise Edition is open source and comprises commercial add-ons and services

Deployment

SaaS

, On-Premises

Embedded In

–

Tested Version

Enterprise Edition 7.16 - Tested in 08/2020

Import File Types

CSV, MXML, XES

Supported file types can be uploaded in compressed format

Database Connections

Adapters/Connectors

SAP ECC and S/4HANA

Adapters are sold as separate products via consultancy engagements

Integrated ETL Functionality

Data Anonymization & Pseudonymization

Data Loading

Data Refresh: Incremental data loading, appending new data to an existing set of data
Scheduled Jobs = Automatic data loading in defined time intervals

Data Refresh

, Scheduled Jobs

Character Encodings

UTF-8 compatibility tested with special characters and various languages: Korean, Japanese, Trad. & Simplif. Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic, Russian

UTF-8 (verified

) + various more encodings

Attribute Types

Case-level

, Event-level

Specify Business Hours

Working week

, Multiple shifts/day

, Exclude days

, Holiday calendar

Define Event Order

Manual definition of event ordering in case of identical timestamps. This criterion does not consider automatic ordering by the tool.

Start/End Timestamp

2 timestamps

» Process Graph

As-Is Process Visualization

Directly-Follows Graph (horizontal, vertical), BPMN

Export As-Is Process Graph

For data exports (e.g. CSV) see “Export Reports” criterion

BPMN, PNG, PDF

Performance Highlighting

Visual highlighting of process bottlenecks

Active time

, Idle time

Process Animation (Replay)

Adjust speed

, Adjust timeframe

, Switch time mode

, Zoom in case

Zoom in case not possible, however case tokens display the corresponding case IDs

Search and Filter in Graph

Search and find activity names (relevant for spaghetti-like graphs)
Filter activities/transitions directly from graph

Search

, Filter

Filtering only by activities, not by transitions

Graph Abstraction

Abstraction by frequency or case duration: from most-to-less frequent or vice-versa, and from slower-to-faster or vice-versa

Frequency Metrics

Activity frequency, Case frequency, Min/max/avg/med frequency

Time Metrics

The term “duration” is used when both active and waiting/idle times can be displayed

Tot/min/max/avg/med duration

Additional Graph Metrics

Cost metrics

, Custom metrics

» Process Analysis & Analytics

Process Benchmarking

Visual comparison

, Metric comparison

Process Benchmarking (Different Logs)

Visual comparison

, Metric comparison

Root Cause Analysis

Variant Breakdown by

“Duration” refers to the case throughput time

Case count, event count, min/max/avg/med duration

Case and Activity List

Activity List

, Case List

, Case List for Variants

View Case Details

Rework Analysis

Edge/Transition Details

From-to activities: List of ingoing and outgoing activities for any selected activity

List of all transitions

, From-to activities

Compare As-Is and Target Process

Additional plugin, provided on demand

Target Model Creation

Import model

(BPMN), Auto-create from as-is

, Create new

In-Graph Conformance Visualization

Additional plugin, provided on demand

List of Compliance Violations

Additional plugin, provided on demand

Four-Eyes Principle

Sequence Filtering

“(Not) Directly followed by” filtering

Conformance Root Cause Analysis

Alert Generation

Predictive Analytics

Additional plugin, provided on demand
Remaining case time, next activity, fast/slow case duration

Recommendations (Prescriptive Analytics)

Organizational Mining

Scenario Simulation

Decision Rule Mining

Export Reports

Events (CSV), Cases (CSV), Variants (CSV)

Export Charts and Tables

Custom Dashboards

Custom charts

, Custom tables

Only 1 custom dashboard possible

Custom Metrics/KPIs

KPI Thresholds

Deviation from defined thresholds can be detected through color differentiation

Advanced Charts

Dashboard offers >5 different chart types

World Map

Latitude & longitude coordinates

, Location by attribute (e.g. country codes, city names)

Save Filter Settings

UI Languages

English

Share & Collaborate

Share selection

; No further dedicated collaboration features

Role-Based Access

User Authentication

Basic; LDAP

Audit Logs

Distinctive Focus and Features

Predictive analytics: Apromore offers a sophisticated plugin to predict the remaining time of a running case, the next activity of a running case with a respective probability, and more. The model training UI offers advanced settings for feature engineering and a choice of prediction algorithms including random forests and XGBoost.
Process modeling: Apromore’s integrated BPMN editor can be used to create, edit, share and merge process models. Model versioning allows stakeholders to revert back to older versions of a model.

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Disclaimer: The timeliness of provided information is based on the tested version and date as stated under “Tested Version”. No guarantee can be given about the correctness and accuracy of the information contained.

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