Introduction to the Third Workshop on Business Process Intelligence (BPI 2007)

Abstract

Business process intelligence (BPI) is quickly gaining interest and importance in research industry. BPI refers to the application of various measurement and analysis techniques in the area of business process management to provide a better understanding and a more appropriate support of a company’s processes at design time and the way they are handled at runtime. The Call for Papers for this workshop attracted 16 international submissions. Each paper was reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee and the eight best papers were selected for presentation at the workshop. In addition, the workshop included of a keynote and a roundtable. In his keynote talk “DataMining: Practical Challenges in Analyzing Performance” M. Genrich addressed challenges which arise when applying process performance analysis in practices. Genrich pointed out that events logs are often not sufficient for process analysis, and that the business context has to be considered carefully before drawing conclusions from the data.