P-R-Dash: A Dashboard-Constructing Tool for Twinning Business Processes

Ever since the dawn of digital twin technologies, we have been introduced to advanced analytics and decision support on manufacturing, supply chain management, construction, etc. When it comes to twinning an organization, building a digital and mirrored representation of its business processes is of paramount importance. Visualization techniques, including dashboards, are generally attributed to the effectiveness of a digital twin. Though dashboard engineering has attracted a great deal of attention in the last decade, it has been hampered by a lack of automation tools, leading to poorly designed dashboards that fail to grasp the analyst’s analytical context. We develop a tool that semi-automatically creates a contextual dashboard that proves useful in the digital twin of a business process. Technically, our tool generates such a dashboard by iterating through all the pools and data objects visually depicted in a business process and generating the computer-interpretable source code that represents the appropriate visualization charts. To demonstrate the usefulness of our work, we walk through a real-life digital advertising project and illustrate how a dashboard generated by our tool could be displayed live using a dedicated visualization platform.