This chapter provides an overview of the extraction of data from application systems for use in Process Performance Manager. The extracted data can be imported into Process Performance Manager with no changes using the PPM XML import interface and processed by using suitable fragment and mapping definitions. The XML import interface is described in detail in the PPM Data import manual.
Via XML configuration files, the PPM CSV-2-PPM, JDBC-2-PPM and SAP-2-PPM process extractors are adapted to the source system from which the data is to be extracted.