[εm] - Process Analysis using a Meta Modeling Tool

Increasing complexity in business processes and the resulting missing manageability are one of the main issues in business process management today. Process owners do not only have to keep track of one aspect of a process (e.g. the correct input and output, the efficiency or the compliance) but of combinations of these. In turn, these aspects are influenced by several possible factors throughout the whole process. Often occurring adjustments and fast changing regulations raise the complexity of monitoring even more. As the manual analysis becomes more and more infeasible, automatic analysis tools are required that support responsible persons in this task. Here, our meta modeling tool [εm] comes into play. For analysis, [εm] enables the user to define specific patterns that describe issues to be detected in business process models. [εm] can search these issues automatically by means of an included algorithm and present the detected parts. Currently existing tools often lack a wide applicability (i.e. only support one modeling language), only allow rather simple patterns or are too difficult to use. The demo presents the flexible applicability of the tool and how it can be used by modeling experts as well as domain experts to benefit from its wide-ranging functionality. Based on a continuous example, the support of arbitrary modeling languages, the creation of complex patterns by using the graphical user interface, and the search of these patterns in business process models are presented.