Big data is a style of data analysis that reflects a return to large, centralized data repositories. Processing power and memory are getting cheaper, while the bandwidth among all the smart devices remains a barrier to getting all the data together in one place for analysis. The trend is for putting the anaytics into the swarm of devices known as the Internet of Things (IoT) Continue reading
I did a web presentation with Sandy Kemsley on the subject of “Crossing the Next Frontier of Business Process Management: Introducing Process Intelligence.” The webcast went well, and I really appreciated Sandy’s clear and accurate descriptions of how process mining works. It also touched on Fujitsu’s new Interstage Process Analytics product. Access the webcast and related things at the BPM For Agile Enterprise site. Continue reading
There is an interesting video “Your Storytelling Brain” from Cognitive Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga who talks about how we remember things. He describes a part of the brain called “the interpreter” which functions to organize memories into plausible stories. This is great most of the time, but causes a type of memory distortion that is gets in the way of designing appropriate business processes. Continue reading
The IEEE Task Force on Process Mining has just released the Process Mining Manifesto. This the single best, most concise description of what process mining is, and what this revolutionary new technology might bring about. Continue reading
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