Process Performance Manager draws data from data sources you identify, such as databases containing business process execution and audit data, or data stores of trading partners contacted by business process steps, or third-party applications such as Oracle Applications, SAP, or Salesforce. In addition to facilitating process, function, and organizational analyses, Process Performance Manager enables you to evaluate process-independent data using data analytics.

You specify the KPIs (cycle times, frequencies, costs, adherence to deadlines, and quality guidelines) to investigate, and Process Performance Manager automatically reconstructs the entire business process in an easy-to-read, event-driven process chain view. Process Performance Manager provides a wide selection of chart types and tables in which to display the results of your analyses clearly and in detail. Process Performance Manager data is displayed in an Internet browser-based user interface. The illustration below shows the comparison of the aggregated fast-running processes versus the aggregated slow-running processes described in Analytics & Decisions Example.