| 摘要 |
A plurality of reporting elements are applied to a process, which reporting elements, during operation of the process, generate processing artifacts each including a coordination identification (relative to a specific item flowing through the process), a service identification and a time stamp. Thereafter, flow of the item through the process may be analyzed based on the processing artifacts. The processing artifacts may be stored locally at each reporting element or centrally. In the presently preferred embodiment, the analysis of the flow of an item through the process includes generating an industry-standard representation of the flow based on the processing artifacts. In this manner, the present invention provides for a complete analysis of a given process, particularly business processes, through the collection of relatively simple, easily-generated processing artifacts.
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