Store Time Series of Metrics to Table

At last post Schedule Notebook to Run Data Jobs I showed you how to schedule Data Job using Machine Learning Workbench. Of course, not only Data Job but any kind of tasks can be scheduled by Python script. Today I would like to schedule backup some kind of data to table by Machine Learning Workbench. Store time series of metrics Imagine I am running Celonis EMS for months and I already established dash board Aalysis to observe some KPIs (metrics). [Read More]

Handle Day based Activity as Milestone

I already created four activities until last post Unite SQL statements by CASE Expression, those are fillfilled requirement of event log. Going back to Consider Case ID before Starting Transformation, case ID is the biggest requirement. Also is is not so big as case ID, but event time is important too. In process mining, event time should be year, month, day plus hour, minute, second (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS in Vertica format). I guess event time in process mining referred to that is recorded automatically by system responding to something action. [Read More]

Copy Previous Value to Blank Period by RUNNING_SUM and RANGE_APPEND functions

At Investigate Workload Trend of Cropped Subprocess I showed trend of activity count, and at that time I used RANGE_APPEND to fill zero count in trend graph. Today I would like to use different aggregation RUNNING_SUM and fill value to blank period. Imagine you would like to check weekly trend of credit amount regarding some customer. Credit amount is increased by the amount of net value when ‘Receive Order’ happened, and it is decreased when ‘Clear Invoice’ happened. [Read More]

Create Key Column of Activity Table

Celonis Data Model always require unique key in case tabel (case key) to group activities belong to each case. How about activity table ? Activity table do not have explicit key column, instead combination of case key, activity name, timestamp, and sorting number are similar to activity key (those four columns are configured in Data Model). This week I was asked to create activity table key column due to duplication check purpose. [Read More]

Investigate Workload Trend of Cropped Subprocess

Celonis Activity record is good to investigate user workload, so you may already implement analysis to do this. Today I would like to crop activities to minimum subprocess then investigate workload against subprocess. Today’s output image is below. I set filter button of company code, also set three buttons to point out activities to crop subprocess pass through these activities. Right side Process Explorer is to check subprocess, in this case it is starting from ‘Approve Credit Check’ until ‘Cancel Order’ via ‘Deny Credit Check’. [Read More]

Verify calculation result in OLAP table then convert to visual component

Today is 24th post of this blog series and I am suprised that I can continue to post blog every week. I got some reply from who loves Celonis in the world and it is my fun to continue posting. Celonis is releasing new functionarity year by year and I am interested in catching up them and thinking how these functions help my clients. After listening to next week’s Celonis World Tour Webiner in Tokyo, I will get more inspiration to write blog. [Read More]

Group similar cases by Clustering

Last week I posted Convert Quantitative value to Categorical one by Quantile Function to create categorical dimension. Today I will create categorical dimension via different way, clustering. Clustering is one of the unsupervised learning method, to automatically group cases by their attributes. Celonis PQL has clustering funciton KMEANS, so you are ready to use clustering. Today I will use O2C process and would like to group customers by (1) their lead time from Invoice send to Clear Invoice and (2) net value. [Read More]

Convert Quantitative value to Categorical one by Quantile Function

Last week I posted Integrate Button Dropdown Entries to one Formula and integrated multiple dimensions. At that time I used string column that enable you to categorize each case, that is called categorical variable. In contrast quantitative variable such as order quantity, net value is not normally possible to use for dimension. If you would like to use these column as dimension, you need to convert its value to categorical value. [Read More]

Integrate Button Dropdown Entries to one Formula

I usually use two types of analysis components, time scale graph and drilldown table for my development projects. These compnents makes it possible to discover root cause of target KPIs by changing time scale or drilldown dimension. In the end, these components and attaching button dropdown were maintained many times, but I was annoyed to set variable value (especially long PQL) to each button entry (it was also cause of defects against my analysis sheet). [Read More]

Use BIND function to enable multiple DOMAIN_TABLE

Variant Explorer is the major Celonis Analytical view to find process pattern by GUI operation. Of course I used it many times and enjoyed it at first, and found that I had a lot of effort to filter on and off to observe process. Today I would like to create collective list of variant to see major process KPI. Also I would like to show you BIND function that is difficult to understand but quite convenient if you know it. [Read More]