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Workflow Logs provide a very valuable source of information about the actual execution of business processes in organizations. We propose to use data warehouse technology to exploit this information resources for organizational developments, monitoring and process improvements. We introduce a general data warehouse design for workflow warehouses and discuss the results from an industrial case study showing the validity of this approach.
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Eder, J., Olivotto, G.E., Gruber, W. (2002). A Data Warehouse for Workflow Logs. In: Han, Y., Tai, S., Wikarski, D. (eds) Engineering and Deployment of Cooperative Information Systems. EDCIS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2480. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45785-2_1
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