Reviewing results

After you have gathered enough results, you can display them in different ways.

IBM® Business Process Manager Optimizer presents analysis results in:

Heat maps
Live reports
Recommendations
Smart Start hotspots

Note: To see all views in the Optimizer, including the Smart Start view and the Recommendations view, click Full from the drop-down menu in the lower-left corner of IBM Process Designer.

The following sections describe how to interpret these results.

Reviewing heat map results
The Optimizer displays a color-coded heat map to visually illustrate where bottlenecks and other problems exist in the processes included in your scenario, and how severe those issues are. The darker the halo around an activity, the closer it is to the high end of the scale or range that you specified in the Heatmap Settings view.
Reviewing Live Reports results
The data displayed in the Live Reports view depends upon the current editor and selection. For example, if you are examining a heat-mapped process diagram and you have selected an activity in that diagram, the Live Reports view shows data specific to that activity.
Reviewing recommendations
To get recommendations for a problematic Activity or other element in a process, click an element with a halo around it in the heat map. The Recommendations view makes practical recommendations for addressing issues that are identified in your processes, and suggestions for how to optimize your process models.
Reviewing results in the Smart Start view
The Smart Start view directs you to the activities and processes that deserve a closer look based on the most recently run analysis scenario and the current visualization mode. It provides direct access to hotspots identified by the Optimizer when you run an analysis scenario, as well as processes and teams included in the most recently run analysis scenario.

Parent topic: Simulating and optimizing processes