Interactive Process Identification and Selection from SAP ERP (Extended Abstract (original) (raw)

An Event Data Extraction Approach from SAP ERP for Process Mining

2021

The extraction, transformation, and loading of event logs from information systems is the first and the most expensive step in process mining. In particular, extracting event logs from popular ERP systems such as SAP poses major challenges, given the size and the structure of the data. Open-source support for ETL is scarce, while commercial process mining vendors maintain connectors to ERP systems supporting ETL of a limited number of business processes in an ad-hoc manner. In this paper, we propose an approach to facilitate event data extraction from SAP ERP systems. In the proposed approach, we store event data in the format of object-centric event logs that efficiently describe executions of business processes supported by ERP systems. To evaluate the feasibility of the proposed approach, we have developed a tool implementing it and conducted case studies with a real-life SAP ERP system.

Semi-Automated Approach for Building Event Logs for Process Mining from Relational Database

Applied Sciences

Process mining is a novel alternative that uses event logs to discover, monitor, and improve real business processes through knowledge extraction. Event logs are a prerequisite for any process mining technique. The extraction of event data and event log building is a complex and time-intensive process, with human participation at several stages of the procedure. In this paper, we propose a framework to semi-automatically build an event log based on the XES standard from relational databases. The framework comprises the stages of requirements identification, event log construction, and event log evaluation. In the first stage, the data is interpreted to identify the relationship between the columns and business process activities, then the business process entities are defined. In the second stage, the hierarchical structure of the event log is specified. Likewise, a formal rule set is defined to allow mapping the database columns with the attributes specified in the event log struct...