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Fig. 10.9 Screenshot of Nitro while converting a CSV file into an XES file. The tool suggest a
mapping based on the content in each column, e.g., Nitro is able to recognize different time formats
and automatically maps these onto the appropriate XES or MXML notation

is scheduled to be publicly released in late 2011. Disco is complemented by Nitro
shown in Fig. 10.9. Nitro is an ETL tool tailored toward the extraction of event logs
(fluxicon.com/nitro).
Interstage BPME (Business Process Management through Evidence), also
known as Interstage Automated Process Discovery, is offered by Fujitsu as a service,
i.e., organizations do not need to install a software product. The discovered process
can be uploaded in Interstage BPM Studio (or other systems that support XPDL).
The focus is on process discovery, i.e., providing insights into what is actually hap-
pening. The tool is unable to discover concurrency, but is able to seamlessly abstract
from infrequent behavior. Interstage BPME is able to analyze performance using in-
dicators such flow time. Additional perspectives are not discovered (other than time)
and advanced features like prediction, recommendation, and conformance checking
are not supported.
The ARIS Process Performance Manager (PPM) by Software AG (initially de-
veloped by IDS Scheer) supports some of the process mining techniques described
in this book. The focus is mainly on performance analysis (drilling down to the
instance level, benchmarking, and dashboards) [11]. Models of instances can be
merged into process models (like in [117]) thus supporting “slicing and dicing” at
the process level. Recent versions of ARIS PPM also support organizational mining
as described in Sect. 8.3 (also see [88]). ARIS PPM does not support conformance
checking, prediction, and recommendation.
The Enterprise Visualization Suite by Businesscape focuses on the analysis of
SAP supported business processes. Process Discovery Focus by Iontas supports pro-
cess discovery. Iontas was recently acquired by Verint Systems, making the future