General

PPM uses XML as a universal data format, which means that the entire PPM system can be configured using XML files.

This technical reference describes PPM's XML interfaces that are used to import source system data into the PPM system as XML files. For importing data, PPM uses its own data formats, namely system event format and graph format.
The source system data is first extracted from almost any source system type (e.g., SAP, JDBC, CSV) using the PPM process extractors (system event format) or other adapters.

The Design of a Process Warehouse chapter provides a design-based view of how extracted source system data can be used to generate process instances, which reflect the sequences of the source system processes and are available for further measure analysis in PPM.