What is Process Event Audit?
A process event audit allows you to manage the enterprise-wide business activities or events in reference to your defined business processes. Every company performs some degree of process event audits! However, the value derived from process event audits is directly dependent upon the methodologies and technologies that a company selects. Click here to see the differences. A non-conforming event can cause severe business impacts. Therefore, having the capability to audit each event in the enterprise can dramatically mitigate business risks!
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What we do?
The primary function for Decision-Zone's software, "dzAudit", is to perform continuous process event audits for catching all non-compliant process instance event exceptions non-intrusively.
Decision-Zone's Continuous Process Event Audit System (dzAudit) generates the validated and consolidated process instance event streams or the process logic layer. A business process can have numerous functions, each function can require complex sets of sequential and logical state or step tasks or sub-processes to be executed. The process logic layer provides a complete trace of the actual executing process instance event streams that have been audited against the reference process execution patterns. The value of the process logic layer is to facilitate the accurate specifications and development of management applications simply and rapidly at less cost and time to maximize business performance and to mitigate business risks.
Management now has the opportunity to respond, analyze, classify, and to integrate dzAudit validated and consolidated process instance event streams with internally developed or third party software applications for process management, complex event processing, back-end processing, financial audit, operational risk, regulatory compliance, revenue assurance, security, financial fraud, money laundering, privacy, governance, etc...
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Why Decision-Zone?
Without Decision-Zone's proprietary causal operators used to generate reference process instance event pattern definitions for performing event audits, hundreds of thousands lines of code taking years of effort would be required to build an event audit system for each process in the enterprise. Without continuous process event audits, organizations are exposed to myriads of unknown operational, security and financial risks. dzAudit Software eliminates the massive costs and time barriers for implementing a continuous process event audit system.
The Business Value for Process Event Audits
Non-conforming events in process instances can severely impact your business. Therefore, it is necessary to audit all the events in a process instance for non-conformance. dzAudit outputs a contextual and consolidated audit trail for every process instance. Any non-conforming event in a process instance results in dzAudit red flagging the audit trail. The red flagged audit trails reveal the cause for event non-conformance and can be used to analyze and classify the severity of business impacts. Non red flagged audit trails can be used to conduct deep performance analysis. The contextual and consolidated audit trails help management to answer regulator queries about business transactions rapidly, accurately and with proof.
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The Value of Patterns in Process Event Audits
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| How dzAudit is Implemented |
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| In order to perform an event audit, dzAudit generates all the reference process event pattern definitions required for checking an event’s logical positions relative to the reference patterns for non-conformance.
Reference event pattern definitions are generated from the process diagram.
Process diagram provides the event characteristics and the logical event mapping information required for generating the reference event pattern definitions.
Event characteristics contains the event topic name, process instance ID and content field values that are used to evaluate the logical event positions in the process diagram.
The event map contain the logical event sequence and timing positions in reference to other events.
dzAudit uses its proprietary causal operators to automatically generate all reference process event pattern definitions within minutes for any given UML/BPEL process diagram.
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SLA and Behavior Process Instances
Additionally, dzAudit can be configured to provide audit trails for SLAs and Behaviors for every process instance.
Process Discovery
dzAudit Software allows you to reverse engineer processes by aggregating the specific events of interest and discovering causal event pattern relationships and connecting the discovered patterns to form UML compliant process state diagrams using its proprietary machine learning algorithms.
Where dzAudit Fits in The Real Time Enterprise Application Architecture?
The Function of dzAudit in the Real time Enterprise Application Architecture:
1) To automatically generate all reference process instance patterns from any given business process.
2) To consolidate application event streams into process instances (records) in context to a given business process.
3) To red flag those process instances where their process instance events do not conform to the given business process.
Third party CEP or other software can be used to implement complex scenarios utilizing dzAudit process instance audit trails in management applications.
DZI simplifies application development and provides savings in cost and time by up to 80% when organizations implement dzAudit process event audit system for their business processes.
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dzAudit Example for Process Event Audit
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| Deal Process State Diagram - Example for Process Event Audit |
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