How to Configure the Sampling Point Generation of a Project

11-8 Modeling and Implementation Guide for Oracle Business Process Management 5. From the Type list, select a data type. 6. If you selected a continuous data type and selected Dimension as its business indicator type, then add at least one range.

7. Optionally, check Auto Initialize to initialize the business indicator with a default

value. For more information about default values, see Section 8.2.2, Default Values .

8. Click OK.

The Create Business Indicator dialog closes and saves the business indicator you created.

11.4.2 What Happens When You Add a Business Indicator to a Process

You can use the business indicators that you added to your project to store data about the processes you want to monitor. Some business indicators require you to add different artifacts to your process to indicate the BPMN Service Engine must store their values in the Process Analytics databases. ■ Dimensions The BPMN Service Engine automatically stores the data in the dimension business indicators in the pre-defined and custom sampling points defined for your process. ■ Measures Pre-defined measures are always measured in every flow element that is configured to produce sampling points. You can add a measurement mark to specify the point, or process sections where you want the BPMN Service Engine to measure and store a custom business indicator of type measurement. For information on how to add a measurement mark, see Section 11.5, Adding Measurement Marks to Processes . ■ Counters You must add a counter mark to those activities where you want the BPMN Service Engine to store the value of the counter business dimension. For information on how to add a counter mark, see Section 11.6, Adding Counters to the Activities in a Process .

11.5 Adding Measurement Marks to Processes

Measurement marks enable you to measure a business indicator of type measure at a certain point in the process or in a section of the process. You can use one measurement mark to measure multiple business indicators. Measurement marks store the following data into the Process Analytics databases: ■ The value of the process default measures Note: The available data types vary according to the type of business indicator you selected. Table 11–1 shows the available data types for each business indicator type. Using Process Analytics 11-9 ■ The value of the measure business indicators associated to that measurement mark ■ The value of the dimensions defined in the process When storing the value of a measure business indicator, the BPMN Service Engine also stores the value of the dimensions you defined in your process. Later on, when you build the dashboards to monitor your process, you can use these dimensions to group the values into different categories. For example, in the Sales Quote process you might want to view the total amount of quotes approved by region. The types of measurement marks you can define are: ■ Single Measurement ■ Interval Start ■ Interval Stop Measurement marks are associated to a flow element. Measurement marks of type interval start track the value of business indicators before running the flow elements that proceeds them. Counter marks, measurement marks of type interval stop and single measurement marks track the value of business indicators after running the flow element that precedes them. Single Measurements If you defined measure business indicators in your process, then you must add single measurement marks in those points in the process where you want to measure those business indicators. Single measurement marks indicate the BPMN Service Engine that at that point in the process it has to store the value of the measure business indicators associated to that measurement mark. The BPMN Service Engine also stores the values of the default process measures and the dimension business indicators at this point in the process. Figure 11–2 Single Measurement Mark This image shows a single measurement mark placed on a transition between two exclusive gateways. This measurement mark stores the values of its associated business indicators have after the process instance completes the first exclusive gateway.