Analyze processes using object-centric process mining

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Business value

Object-centric process mining delivers transformative insights that traditional process analysis simply can't capture. By analyzing how multiple object types, such as orders, items, deliveries, and invoices interact throughout your processes, you gain a complete, realistic view of your operations as they actually function.

This comprehensive visibility enables you to identify hidden inefficiencies, such as bottlenecks that only appear when certain object combinations occur, or resource constraints that emerge from complex object interactions. You can pinpoint exactly where delays cascade across related objects, causing ripple effects that impact customer satisfaction and operational costs. The ability to analyze multiple dimensions simultaneously means faster root cause analysis and more accurate process optimization. Instead of piecing together fragmented views from separate analyses, you see the full picture immediately, reducing investigation time from weeks to hours and enabling data-driven decisions with confidence.

Ultimately, object-centric process mining helps you reduce cycle times, lower operational costs, improve resource utilization, and enhance customer experience by addressing the real complexity of your business processes rather than oversimplified approximations.

Feature details

Real business processes rarely flow as a single, linear instance. Events routinely touch several objects of different types at the same time (for example, creating an invoice for a specific order, or shipping a package that contains items from multiple orders). Object-centric process mining captures that reality by recording events that relate to many objects and object types in one process, preserving their relationships end‑to‑end.

Here's the key idea: Instead of “one case → one sequence of activities,” object-centric process mining lets one event belong to multiple objects (and object types), keeping the full context intact.

Object-centric process mining support in Power Automate Process Mining allows you to:

  • Easily ingest your object-centric event logs from Azure Data Lake or OneLake.
  • Map object and event-level attributes to unlock detailed analytical opportunities.
  • Visualize your object-centric process in an understandable, customizable, and easy-to-read process map.
  • Visualize key metrics in a comprehensive process overview.
  • Analyze your process from process execution and throughput time viewpoint.
  • Focus on specific process areas by using filters or by specifying a particular path in the Process Analysis widget.

This premium feature is automatically enabled for all Power Automate Process Mining customers.

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Overview of object‑centric process mining (preview) (docs)