# Introduction

Process mining is an analytical technique that helps to discover, monitor and improve operational business processes. Using process mining, you can see how the process actually goes, instead of assuming how the process goes. Process mining helps you to discover, explore, audit, analyze and improve your processes by answering both compliance-related and performance-related questions. The ProcessMining extension for Tableau can be offered as a on-premise (we call it Enterprise) or as SaaS (we call it Share) deployment.

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