
Process mining uses actual organizational data to visualize real workflows, bridging data mining and business process modeling and enabling discovery, monitoring, and improvement of operations.
Learn how process mining bridges business process modeling and data mining to boost efficiency and quality using ai-native workflows, realistic datasets, and practical, platform-agnostic techniques.
Meet the instructor who guides you through process mining with Celonis, as you become an early adopter, revolutionizing business process management and learning to add value to organizations.
Trace the birth of process mining in 1999, when van der Aalst and Weijters fused workflow management with machine learning to harvest knowledge from ad hoc executions, enabling data-driven discovery.
Explore how process mining uses event data from information systems to discover, monitor, and improve processes, identify bottlenecks, anticipate problems, and streamline operations across domains.
Explore ProM, the godfather of process mining developed by Wil van der Aalst, a free open-source framework of plugins that sparked ideas later adopted by user-friendly tools.
Explore how AI-driven process mining shifts to a sovereign analyst model, enabling vibe coding and tool independence to uncover bottlenecks and actionable insights from any data.
Define core process mining terms, including business process, domain knowledge, subject matter expert, case, activity, event, event log, timestamp, throughput time, and BPMN, to enable accurate modeling and analysis.
Explore the event log as the input for process mining, featuring a unique case identifier, a timestamp, and an event name, with optional data like resource and order size.
Discover how process mining supports the BPM lifecycle across seven phases—from design to diagnosis—by analyzing candidate models, implementing changes, monitoring execution, and delivering predictions and recommendations based on historic information.
Explore the three types of process mining: discovery, conformance, and enhancement, where discovery builds models from event logs, conformance checks alignment, and enhancement uses timestamps to reveal bottlenecks.
Discover how discovery uses an event log to produce a process model, conformance compares logs to a predefined model for diagnostic indicators, and enhancement creates a new model for improvements.
Apply process mining at the organizational level to optimize resources and performance by using ERP event logs with discovery, conformance, and enhancement.
Discover how event-data process models provide purposeful abstractions of behavior and serve as maps for different stakeholders, offering multiple views at varying levels of abstraction.
There is no perfect process map; models should emphasize the user's needs, presenting different perspectives: control flow, data flow, throughput time bottlenecks, resources, costs, at varying levels of granularity.
Borrow ideas from cartography to create understandable process maps by highlighting features with color and size, clustering or omitting less significant elements, and using arc width to reflect bottlenecks.
Access all course resources from this lecture's Google Drive link, including literature references, datasets, the BPMN model, and PQL information.
Learn to run a vibe coded process mining tool locally on your pc with mini process miner and process miner 3.0 (Graphis), pm4py powered, using Anaconda, Streamlit, and graphics add-on.
Upload the dataset, map columns to patient ID, timestamp, and activity, then explore process maps and directly follows graphs, using sliders to adjust abstraction and reveal top variants and connections.
Learn to filter and group in process mining by applying case-level and event-level filters, and by creating activity groups like diagnostics and interventions to simplify the process map.
Explore process mining with ChatGPT code interpreter to analyze event logs, compare alpha miner results with Celonis, and interpret process maps and throughput time.
Learn how to run process mining with the PM4Py library inside ChatGPT, install dependencies, generate a process map and a Petri net, and produce data-driven summaries despite alpha miner limitations.
Explore a custom Celonis GPT built with ChatGPT to interpret process mining graphs, troubleshoot, and gain actionable insights from maps like pizza delivery and ob/gyn care.
Discover process mining and process intelligence powered by AI, where you upload data, convert raw logs to insights, and code analyses by talking to the AI with no paywalls.
Explore the vibe coded mini process mining tool on a Streamlit page, upload event logs, and explore Petri nets, time maps, and directly follows graphs with two filters.
Built a free open source process mining app in a weekend using vibe coding, with a Streamlit interface and AI-assisted prompts; no vendor lock-in and forkable on GitHub.
Create a vibe-coded process mining tool with Gemini in Google AI Studio to upload data, view process maps, and group activities into a diagnostics category.
Build a mini process miner with Google AI Studio using eight prompts, adding conformance checking, visual graphs, and metrics like average throughput time, unique case count, and activity count.
Compare a process model with an event log to assess conformance. Start conformance checking with Celonis Snap by uploading Bpmn files or mining a process from event data.
Learn conformance checking in process mining by loading a BPMN file and a CSV event log, visualizing the model, and comparing design versus actual data to identify deviations.
Perform conformance checking with the mini process miner using PM4PY, uploading data, comparing BPM models, and analyzing case-level risk profiles with CSV export and Excel pivots.
Perform conformance checking with google ai studio's vibe coded mini process miner by uploading a bpmn model and csv log to audit conformance and view violation categories.
Start a process mining project with practical guidelines and tips that emphasize soft, social, and managerial skills to drive success within your organization.
Explore four key process mining project types: control, improvement, transformation, and disruption, and see how regulatory oversight, department changes, digital transformation, and industry shifts affect processes.
Visualize four process mining project types: control, improvement, transformation, and disruption, and see how objectives adjust a current A–E process.
Involve IT, data engineers, a process mining analyst, business analysts, domain experts, a project manager, and a process owner to extract, clean, and transform data into an event log.
Define the business value to address with process mining, such as reducing wait times. Identify deviations from a sequence and redesign the process, guided by research questions.
Start small with a narrowly defined process in a known area. Redefine the scope if the map looks like spaghetti by adjusting filters or grouping activities to simplify the model.
Focus process mining on solving existing problems known to the manager, not on identifying new issues. Deliver practical solutions that address problems managers already face.
Start small with an easy process to achieve small wins, then expand process mining across the organization to become a structural part of optimizing overall performance.
PROCESS INTELLIGENCE & PROCESS MINING: A TOOL-AGNOSTIC, CONCEPT-FIRST MASTERCLASS
*** This course contains the use of artificial intelligence. ***
Master process mining in a practical, modern, and tool-independent way.
This course teaches the foundations of process intelligence and process mining using a concept-first approach. Instead of depending on one commercial platform, you will learn the principles that apply across tools: event logs, cases, activities, timestamps, variants, bottlenecks, throughput, and process discovery.
The course has recently been streamlined from about 5 hours to less than 3 hours. Most older Celonis-specific content has been removed, and the course is now shifting toward free tools, AI-assisted workflows, and practical “vibe coding” approaches.
You may still find occasional Celonis references in the current material. These are being replaced gradually. Celonis remains useful as an industry example, but it is no longer the center of the course.
Why This Course Is Tool-Agnostic
Process mining tools are powerful, but they change over time. Features, interfaces, free plans, and licenses can all change.
That is why this course focuses on skills that last:
Understanding event logs
Discovering real process flows
Interpreting variants and deviations
Detecting bottlenecks
Analyzing throughput and case-level behavior
Communicating insights to decision-makers
The goal is to help you understand process mining itself, whether you later use Celonis, UiPath, Microsoft Process Mining, Apromore, Disco, PM4Py, Power BI, Python, or future AI-powered tools.
Free Tools and Vibe Coding
A major update to this course is the move toward free and flexible process mining practice.
The course includes free process mining tools and AI-assisted exercises that help you explore process mining concepts without depending on paid software.
You will learn how to use simple tools and AI support to:
Load event logs
Generate simple process maps
Explore variants
Find bottlenecks
Create basic dashboards
Build small process mining prototypes
These exercises are educational and intentionally simple. They are not meant to replace enterprise platforms. Their purpose is to help you understand what process mining tools are doing underneath the surface.
Process Mining With AI and LLMs
The course also explores how Large Language Models can support process mining work, including:
Explaining process graphs
Interpreting event logs
Generating hypotheses
Supporting Python code generation
Turning technical findings into clear management explanations
This prepares you for the future of process intelligence, where analytics, automation, and AI increasingly come together.
What You Will Learn
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Explain the foundations of process intelligence and process mining
Work with event logs, cases, activities, and timestamps
Perform and interpret process discovery
Analyze variants, bottlenecks, and throughput
Use free tools for process mining practice
Build simple AI-assisted process mining prototypes
Apply process mining concepts in healthcare, finance, logistics, manufacturing, government, and operations
Communicate process insights clearly
Who This Course Is For
This course is useful for professionals and learners in:
Operations and production
Healthcare
Finance and government
Digital transformation
BPM, RPA, and process improvement
Analytics and data science
Manufacturing, logistics, and supply chain
It is also suitable for beginners who want to understand how real processes behave in practice, not just how they are drawn on paper.
What This Course Is NOT
This course is not:
A Celonis certification
A vendor-specific tool tutorial
A BPMN course
A full data science course
An enterprise integration course
A replacement for commercial process mining software
It is a practical, universal, concept-first process mining course with free-tool, AI-assisted, and illustrative industry examples.
Tool Access
Your learning does not depend on paid software.
Some commercial tools may be mentioned as examples, and some features may require paid licenses. But the core course can be completed using free tools, generic exercises, PM4Py-based examples, and AI-assisted prototypes.
Disclaimers
Celonis is a registered trademark of Celonis SE.
This course is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by Celonis.
All demonstrations are conceptual and intended to teach universal process mining principles.
AI-assisted prototypes and vibe coding exercises are educational tools and are not intended to replace enterprise-grade process mining platforms.