Bonita Process Insights Application

Overview

The Bonita Process Insights application allows you to manage your datasets from your Bonita usage.

You can easily analyze all execution data of your processes to better understand your teams' activities.

It is also possible to set time-based goals (Business Goals) to verify the achievement of your business objectives.

Prerequisites

  • Internet connexion

  • Any supported browser in latest version

  • At least one functional process diagram and a BDM defined in Bonita Studio (version 2021.2 and beyond)

  • A Bonita Process Insights account / license

  • Be able to run the export tool on your BPM database (for cloud customer you should ask to Bonita Cloud team)

Configuration

home page

Manage applications

An Application (BPI) reflects one of your Bonita (BPA) deployments.

For example, if you have multiple BPA instances for a project like "my-hr-app-dev", "my-hr-app-uat", and "my-hr-app-prod", you can create 3 applications in BPI (using the same names for clarity).

Create application

Applications can also be deleted in BPI.

When you delete an application, all related imported data will be removed. This includes data used in dashboards, related business goals, and the dataset import history. The "delete application" button is available on the application card in the application list.

Import data

Once the export tool generates the zip file containing your dataset, you can import it.

Go to the Applications page in your BPI instance, click the "Import Data" button on the target application’s card, and access the upload form. Upload the zip file and wait for it to be processed and analyzed. Once completed, you can explore the data in your dashboards.

Import Data

You can also clean all previously imported data for a specific application.

This may be necessary if, for example, you forgot to anonymize the data or if certain data shouldn’t have been included. Cleaning only deletes the BPM data used in dashboards; business goals and dataset import history remain. The "clean data" button is located on the application card in the application list.

Define Business Goals

You can either define a Business goal for a specific process either for any flownode you want.

Create business goal

Generate a license to be able to export data from Bonita

As described in the documentation about how to export data from Bonita, most CLI commands require a license to run.

To generate and retrieve a license, connect to your Bonita Process Insights instance and accessing the "Generate license" feature from any page.

Generate license

Glossary

Business Goals

Before exporting, you need to configure the connection to the Bonita Instance from which you want to export the data.

Cases

This is an instance of a process

Flownode

A Flow Node in BPMN is an element within a process that represents a point in the flow where something happens. It can be an activity that needs to be performed, a decision point, an event that occurs, or a gateway that dictates the flow’s path based on certain conditions. Flow Nodes are interconnected by Sequence Flows, which determine the order in which activities are executed in the process. Type of flownodes:

  • Events

  • Activities

  • Events Gateways