Robust product for task mining could do with some updates to the dashboarding features
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are currently using the Task Mining component from ProcessMaker to evaluate our business processes and identify inefficiencies, opportunities for streamlining the process and to implement automation. We look at processes which have a very significant number of manual process steps which involve activities outside of our core system landscape, or when there are many different applications involved.
Pros
- Connecting activities across applications which are not part of the core landscape (e.g. Excel, MS Teams)
- Being able to identify activities being performed such as typing into a form, reading content on pages, or navigating between pages in an application.
- Identify copy / paste events, including the source system / application being copied from and the target.
Cons
- The maturity of the Task Mining dashboard is quite low
- The process for managing the invitation tokens to a team is quite challenging
- The knowledge curve for configuring, especially with moderately complex system landscapes, is very steep.
Likelihood to Recommend
The task mining component is well suited for processes where there are a lot of steps performed in a variety of systems, particularly by a single individual on a team. It also requires a robust activity ID to be able to track an activity. It is not well suited when trying to track a process where the content is in an email.
