Tracking groups of process variables

Use tracking groups if you want to explicitly control your tracked data and tracking points. For example, you can group the variables that you want to track by type, strategically place tracking points in your BPD, and track variables across multiple BPDs. With tracking groups, your tracking points can also span multiple BPDs.

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Tracking groups provide the following advantages:
  • You can group similar data together for analysis. For example, you can track employee data, account data, or shipment status information in independent tracking groups.
  • You can track process variables across multiple BPDs and process applications. For example, if your organization includes several locations and each location has a similar, but unique, onboarding process for new employees, you can create a tracking group to capture the business data for all of these processes.
  • Tracking points for a timing interval can span multiple BPDs. For example, if you want to measure the duration between steps that start in one process and end in a nested process, you can include the start tracking point in the main process and the end tracking point in the nested process.
  • Creating a tracking group
    Create and use a tracking group to track process variables across multiple business process definitions and process applications, or to store tracking points for a timing interval. Use tracking groups when you want to explicitly control your tracked data and tracking points for more advanced custom reports.
  • Associating process variables to a tracking group
    You can associate process variables to a tracking group in order to track them.
Parent topic: Tracking IBM Business Process Manager performance data