• Preparing recordings for analysis is time consuming.
• Requiring users to set recordings as “Ready to analyze” introduces additional friction on the path to insights.
• Navigating from the recorder to recording details requires too many clicks.

Read on to discover how we are alleviating these pain points and really reducing the amount of time and number of clicks to get to insights.

 Auto create activities from recordings

We have heard your feedback! Manually preparing screen recordings can be painful. Previously you needed to:

1. Review the recorded actions (e.g. mouse clicks or keyboard events)
2. Identify sensible groupings
3. Define a label for each group, AKA activity

Thankfully, Process advisor now support auto creating activities from the recording. We automatically group related recorded actions into a single activity and create a label that accurately describes the user’s action, leveraging the application and window used. You can accept auto created activities as is, you can edit individual auto created activities, or delete all auto created activities and create your own from scratch.

Editing the activities in anyway will remove the “Auto created” tag so you know which activities were edited or added after. This solution helps first time users quickly understand their process activities, while more advanced users have a starting point to fine tune the activities to get the desired results.

Removal of “Ready to analyze”

With the addition of auto created activities, we wanted to streamline the steps to getting to analytics. Having to toggle ready to analyze every time was more of a hinderance than of value. Now, as long as you have two activities in your recording, you are ready to analyze!

Link back to Process advisor from recorder

We added a button once you have finished recording to open the recording details in Process advisor portal. Previously you had to navigate to the page on your own, which required many clicks and was another source of additional friction.

Get started with process advisor to experience these enhancements or try it out for the first time!

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During your digital transformation journey at an enterprise level, you might wonder if you are tackling the correct processes to automate, or if you are setting up process automations in the most optimal way before starting.  Process mining and Task mining are technologies that provide visibility into how your operational processes look like, not what people guess they look like. With such knowledge, you can fully unlock the benefits of automation.

Process Mining: Identify company-wide bottlenecks and inefficiencies in main operational processes

Process mining uses event logs of key enterprise systems to reveal the steps and variations in completing a specific process. For example, if you use Dynamics apps to manage your Sales process, you could look for event logs from Dynamics for Sales to start with Process mining.

You can use Process mining to improve larger processes with a specific goal such as: Purchase to Pay, Inventory management, Account Receivable, etc…

Try analyzing an Account Payable process with sample data using Process advisor: process mining tutorial.

Task Mining: Discover possibilities for automation for individual workflows

Task mining can capture the user activity and interaction on the desktop. A user records their task using Power Automate Desktop and contributes such recording to the process analysis by Process Advisor. Multiple recordings can represent diverse ways people perform the same process, and Process Advisor analyzes them to synthesize an overall process map.

Some example of use cases for Task mining are tasks such as invoicing, data entry, getting a more granular analysis of activities within a process, and understanding how different applications are used so you can discover automation opportunities and improve efficiency of the process.

What’s next for you: Try out Process Advisor. Anyone can start a free trial!

Learn more about Process advisor and Power automate:  Optimize how you work with RPA and process mining in Power Automate | Power Automate Blog (microsoft.com)

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