“If I had an hour to save the world, I would spend 59 min defining the problem and one minute finding solutions (Einstein)”

More and more people, both in industry and academia, consider process mining as one of the most important innovations in the field of business process management. It joins ideas of process modeling and analysis on the one hand and data mining and machine learning on the other.

What is Business Process Modeling?
A business process describes how a business pursues its objectives. This can be done gradually by adding more and more information at different levels:

• Process map which is a simple flowchart of the activities
• Process description which extends the process map with additional information, but not enough to fully define actual performance
• Process model which is a full description of a process that allows it to be analyzed, simulated or executed

Well, BPMN supports all of these levels.
But what is BPMN and how did it start?