SKAN is an AI-powered process mining and process discovery engine. Skan cognitive engine utilizes computer vision and machine intelligence to observe human work – unobtrusively, at scale, and high precision – and identifies multiple process variants from the digital traces of human work.

Skan observes work and then discovers innumerable variants for a holistic view of business processes. The platform consists of the following features:

1. A virtual process analyst – a sliver of unobtrusive code snippet – records essential interactions with the system.
2. Skan AI algorithms process, analyze, and synthesize the image stream.
3. The AI models intelligently fathom process variations and compile a process metamodel.
4. Across the process participants, Skan gathers process metrics.
5. The resulting variants provide in-depth process insights into participants, applications, workflow, paths, and activities.

• Efficient, accurate, robust, and continuous discovery of business processes at scale.
• Automate with confidence and not end up in an endless cycle of fixing bots.
• Understand and implement process re-engineering based on a data-driven approach rather than the generic experience of consultants.
• Continuously monitor business processes for drift and not depend on once a quarter/year audit.
• With process transparency, improve capacity planning, and optimize workflows to save costs and enhance human productivity.

Awesome, it seems like you are already aware of the value of cognitive technologies and using them in various use cases. Skan is not a generic AI platform, but a highly focused engine that uses computer vision and machine intelligence to record human interactions with digital systems and derives a metamodel of work .

The origins of many of the process mining firms is in the analysis of backend application event logs. These tooling and approach leverages the committed states of data and misses what happens in between. Furthermore, applications that don’t write transactional logs are not captured. While some of them may be dabbling in user task mining, Skan’s origin is firmly rooted in the belief that deciphering the nature of work from their actions and activities offers the most accurate view of workflows and processes.

Skan’s technology has the ability to fathom various nuances and subtleties of how work happens and also encapsulate the tribal knowledge into the way process variants diverge and converge.

Skan deploys a non-intrusive virtual process agent on process participant desktops. The VPA is a lightweight probe, similar to a web conference applet, that is on the system tray and records screen interactions. From all these individual images of user interactions with digital systems, and through the law of large numbers, our AI engine is able to fathom the process and its variants.

Not at all. The beauty of our platform and technology is we don’t need application or data integration or APIs or batch files to do our work.

Depending on the nature and complexity and cycle time of the process, any where from 2 weeks to 8 weeks will be enough to account for all the process variants, diversity in case complexity, and the cycle times. Of course, if a process cycle time is 18 weeks, then the duration needs to change.

We at Skan believe human business analysts/consultants mapping processes are often ineffective and incomplete as it typically focuses on a so-called golden process and perhaps one or two exception paths. But in our experience, we believe most enterprise processes have dozens of process variants.

Furthermore, people know more than what they can tell, and also process participants indicate how work is supposed to be done, not necessarily how they do it.

We believe Skan can be a great ally to consultants – adding evidence to their expertise.  But the vivid and detailed process model is beyond any consultant – however bright they may be and the in-depth domain knowledge they possess.

Last but not least, Skan can monitor processes on an ongoing basis and deliver value each day.

We get how important personal privacy is for employees and companies. What Skan records is what is on the screen and not what is in front of the screen.

We allow company administrators to add applications to an inclusion list and an exclusion list so that any applications that are not a part of work are not included and recorded.

Furthermore, we provide the ability to pause and restart the virtual process agent.

We see Skan more as a Fitbit for the enterprise where ongoing monitoring results in continuous improvement of processes.

In addition, Skan can help in delivering precision training, calibrating capacity, process conformation, and ongoing optimization.