What is the Process Variants widget?

From version 10.1, PPM provides the process variants feature. The process variants feature helps you to obtain an overview of the most typical process variants, to identify irregular processes, and to analyze them (for example, to detect critical outliers).

For details on how to use the variants feature in PPM, see the PPM Process Analysis Quick Start Guide.

The Process Variants widget adapts the PPM process variants feature to the requirements and use cases of MashZone NextGen.

Axis scaling

You can select the axis scaling in the widget properties dialog.

Variant names

The names of the variants depend on the variant dimension level selected. Variant has two dimension levels, Combined variant (rough step width) and Precise variant (refined step width).

The variant v0(n/a) contains all process instances that are not assigned to a variant.

Examples

Combined variant with rough step width: v1, v2, v3,...

Precise variant with refined step width: v1-1, v1-2, v1-3,.... ,v2-1, v2-2, v2-3... ,v3-1, v3-2, v3-3,....

Pagination and navigation

Depending on the number of variants and space available for the chart widget, the variants are displayed on multiple pages. The current page and the total number of pages are shown at the center of the page, for example, 1 / 5 pages. You can use the links <<, <, > and >> to browse the pages. With the links << and >> you can navigate to the first or the last page, respectively. With the links < and > you can navigate one page backward or forward, respectively. If you click a link, the variants of the new page are loaded immediately without resetting the selections of the previous page.

When MashZone NextGen refreshes the data of the widget, the pages are updated automatically.

Example of the Process Variants widget in MashZone NextGen

ppm variants in mzng