Dear Christian,
thanks for your reply.
I am developing an application for SAP running on the IBM i (Power Series). This implementation has a proprietary journaling system that can capture every change to a file. My application is an extract/transfer/load. For example, it extracts data from the journal of EBAN over a month. Each journal record has a fixed part (system data; program name, user id, timestamp etc) and a Entry Specific Data part (SAP data).
The transformation part creates an event log with selected & reformatted parts of this data for use in process mining tools. Process mining is a capability that allows the reverse engineering of business processes. You can get workflow diagrams with performance and wait times. You can also get conformance and organisational data. You get to see what the process actually looks like. This is for use by process owners, managers and business analysts. It answers the question - how is the process behaving?
The load part is taking the created event log (usually excel CSV) and inputting it into a Process Mining tool. The same file can also be used in statistical & BPM tools.
Discussing this with a client he believed that what I was doing could be done with event triggers. I am trying to establish if these are two different things so I can convince him of my systems worth.
My sense is that event triggers serve a different purpose and cannot help you reverse engineer processes?
Regards & thanks,
George