Configuration components

Configuration components are divided into the following categories:

Interface languages

PPM differentiates between two categories of interface languages: the user interface language and the language for displaying database contents that have been imported using the configuration files.

Data types

In PPM, a distinction is made between internal and user-defined data types. Internal data types cannot be changed. An XML file can be used to import any number of new data types into the PPM system.

Specific PPM attributes

Attributes are the information carriers of the PPM system. Attribute values allow data from the source system to reach the PPM system. Calculation results are also saved as attributes. PPM is supplied with a comprehensive set of default attributes, which can be supplemented with user-defined attributes.

Process key rules

Process key rules determine how process keys are calculated.

Process keys identify associated process instance fragments. Associated process instance fragments are written into a process instance unlinked using the process keys. Process keys are created when importing the process instance fragments.

Merge key rules

Merge key rules determine the attributes used by PPM to create merge keys when importing the process instance fragments. When merging events (event merge), the merge events with an identical merge key are used to link the process instance fragments.

Object key rules

Object key rules determine how object keys are calculated.

Object keys identify identical objects. This ensures that these objects are overwritten if the data is imported again and rules out unintentional multiple occurrences of identical objects within a process instance.

Attribute copy rules

Attribute copy rules define the object attributes that are copied to the merged process instance after the merge process. These attributes are required to calculate process measures and to create dimensions.

Typification rules

With typification rules, the imported process instances are allocated to a particular process type.

Measure definition

The measure definition is made up of the definition of the measures (type and calculation rule) and the definition of a process tree.
PPM already contains the calculation rule for many standard measures and a default process tree. If you require further measures, you can define supplementary indicators and their calculation.