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Glossary

Definitions for the process mining, BPM, and platform terminology used throughout the iGrafx Process360 Live documentation.

A

Activity
A named step in a process (e.g. "Approve Invoice"). Each event in an event log records one activity occurrence for one case.
Related terms: Case, Event Log, Trace

B

Bottleneck
An activity or transition where work accumulates and delays the rest of the process. Process-mining visualizations highlight bottlenecks by waiting time or queue length.
BPM (Business Process Management)
The discipline of governing, improving, and automating end-to-end business processes as a strategic capability.
Related terms: BPMN, Workflow, Process Owner
BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation)
An ISO/OMG standard graphical notation for modeling business processes. Process360 Live uses BPMN 2.0 for design and simulation artifacts.

C

Case
A single instance of a process — for example, one customer order, invoice, or support ticket. An event log groups events by case ID.
Related terms: Event Log, Activity, Trace
Conformance Checking
A process-mining technique that compares an event log against a reference process model to quantify where reality diverges from the intended flow.
Cycle Time
The active processing time for an activity or sub-process, excluding waiting time. Used together with throughput time to separate delay from effort.
Related terms: Throughput Time, Bottleneck

D

Dashboard
A configurable view in Process360 Live that aggregates KPIs, charts, and filters across one or more processes for stakeholders to monitor performance.
Related terms: KPI
Digital Twin of an Organization
A dynamic virtual representation of an entire organization — its processes, people, assets, systems, and data. You build a digital model of your business and use it to test which levers to pull for improvement. The model must be accurate and must evolve continuously rather than being built once and left static.

E

Event Log
A chronologically ordered record of activities executed for individual cases, typically extracted from source systems. The primary input to any process-mining analysis.
Related terms: Case, Activity, Trace, Process Mining

I

iGrafx Identity
The iGrafx identity and access management service that brokers authentication between customer identity providers and Process360 Live components.
Related terms: SSO, SAML

K

KPI (Key Performance Indicator)
A quantitative measure used to evaluate process performance against a target — for example, average throughput time, automation rate, or rework percentage.
Related terms: Throughput Time, Dashboard

P

Process Automation
Executing a modeled process directly via a workflow engine, with human tasks, system calls, and decision logic orchestrated from the model.
Related terms: Workflow, BPM, BPMN
Process Design
The discipline of explicitly modeling business processes to document, analyze, and optimize them. In Process360 Live, process design is the authoring side that complements mining's data-driven view.
Process Discovery
The process-mining step that infers a process model directly from an event log, without any prior model as input.
Process Map
A visual graph of activities and the transitions between them, derived from an event log (mining) or authored by hand (design).
Process Mining
A discipline that uses event data recorded by enterprise systems to discover, monitor, and improve real business processes — revealing how work actually flows rather than how it was designed.
Process Modeler
The Process360 Live authoring tool for creating and editing BPMN diagrams and other process models in the browser.
Related terms: BPMN, Process Design
Process Owner
The person accountable for a specific business process — its design, performance, and improvement. The primary stakeholder for mining and simulation outputs.
Related terms: BPM
Process Simulation
Running a designed process model against scenarios (volumes, resources, durations) to predict performance before making real-world changes.
Related terms: Process Design, BPMN
Process360 Live
iGrafx's cloud platform for end-to-end process management — combining process design, mining, simulation, and automation in a single environment.

Q

Quick Shape Menu
The shape picker that opens when you add a connected shape through the orange circular handles on a selected diagram shape. It offers the shapes of the diagram's current shape library.
Related terms: Shape text

S

SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language)
An XML-based standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between an identity provider and a service provider. Process360 Live supports SAML 2.0 for SSO.
Related terms: SSO, iGrafx Identity
Shape text
The text displayed on a diagram shape. Type while a shape is selected to add or edit it. Part of the shape feature family alongside Shape Links and Shape Properties.
Related terms: Quick Shape Menu
SSO (Single Sign-On)
An authentication scheme that lets users sign in once with an identity provider and access Process360 Live without re-entering credentials.
Related terms: SAML, iGrafx Identity

T

Throughput Time
The total elapsed time from the first to the last event of a case. The headline metric for end-to-end process performance.
Related terms: Cycle Time, Bottleneck, KPI
Trace
The ordered sequence of activities executed for a single case. Grouping cases by identical traces produces variants.
Related terms: Case, Activity, Variant

V

Variant
A unique trace pattern in an event log. Variant analysis ranks how often each path is taken and is the fastest way to spot process deviation.

W

Workflow
An automated or semi-automated sequence of tasks that moves work from initiation to completion, often with routing rules and human-task assignments.
Related terms: BPM, Process Automation

Total terms: 29