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Process Analytics - General Information

This chapter provides an overview about the workflowAn object of the Automation Engine that can include several executable objects and which runs them in a specified order. [Formerly called "ProcessFlow" and "JobPlan."] between Process AnalyticsAn Automic graphical analysis tool that displays the activities, statistical data and forecast data per Automation Engine system client in a bar diagram and that can be used to calculate the critical path. [Formerly called "ClearView," "Graphical Workload Analyzer," or "JobMonitoringStudio (JMS)."] and the AE system.

Process Analytics can be used to analyze scheduled, running or processed tasks of an AE system. To enable this functionality, the required data must be loaded from the AE databaseA database is an organized collection of data including relevant data structures., converted in a specific way and written to a different database (Process Analytics database). This process is referred to as ETL process (extract, transform, load). Process Analytics can read this data from the Process Analytics database and graphically display the information.

Keep your Process Analytics database up to date by executing the ETL process on a regular basis.

Process Analytics consists of two components:

You can also load data as of a particular point in time to the Process Analytics database. Do so by starting Process Analytics Admin with a specific start parameter.

Overview about UC4 GWA integration

Start Process Analytics Admin in order to start the data-loading process (ETL process). You can either do so manually or by using an AE jobAn Automation Engine object type for a process that runs on a target system. in order to start it automatically. To obtain a current view, reload the data in Process Analytics Studio ("Reload").

Process Analytics collects and visualizes the following AE database tasks:

 


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