Analyze process compliance
A compliance analysis with ARIS Process Mining helps you find issues or inconsistencies that reduce process performance. The compliance analysis includes the process conformance analysis and the compliance rule check.
Process conformance check
Without considering business attributes, such as risk measures, a process conformance check compares the structure of cases to a reference process. ARIS is the main repository for modeling target (to-be) processes. These reference processes are modeled using BPMN or EPC models. ARIS Process Mining is used to discover and analyze executed processes that are recreated based on event logs imported from application systems. A process conformance check compares the reference process with the executed process instances and calculates relevant measures and dimensions.
Note
To achieve acceptable performance, the algorithm uses heuristics to find a path through the reference model when multiple possible paths exist. The algorithm guarantees that cases marked as conformant do conform with the reference model. However, the process conformance check may show cases as non-conformant, although there is a possible path in the reference model (so-called false negatives). False negatives may occur if the reference model contains complex control structures with a cascade of gateways. Often such reference models can be simplified without loss of semantics, thus avoiding false negatives in the conformance analysis. Avoiding several tasks with identical names in the reference model will also tend to improve the quality of process conformance analysis.
When the reference model is an EPC, some cases that might informally be considered to be not conformant with the model may be shown as conformant. This can happen when the EPC contains inclusive OR operators. The informal semantics of EPCs requires that at least one outgoing branch of such an operator be chosen. However, the conformance check always uses the operational BPMN semantics of inclusive gateways, in which all outgoing branches are considered optional.
Compliance rule check
A compliance rule check analyzes whether an executed and measured process instance (case) of a production system is compliant with a defined condition of a compliance rule. The compliance rule check allows you to formulate declarative rules that evaluate business attributes, but make very limited use of process structure information.
Compliance app
You can use the Compliance app to work with process conformance analyses and compliance rule checks. The Compliance app is a standard app in ARIS Process Mining and ready to use.