Introducing Aiones – Meet Your New Favorite Colleague 🤖

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In the ever evolving landscape of business process management, the inception of aiones marks a pivotal moment.

This innovative tool is the fruit of years of expertise in the business process consulting and automation space, addressing a critical gap in the process lifecycle that often led to increased cost, detrimental long term effects and delongated project timelines or even project failure.

aiones is not just a technological advancement; it’s a paradigm shift in how businesses approach and handle their processes.

Intention And Background

The journey of aiones began as an answer to a common yet complex challenge: the need for effective and efficient process discovery and design. Observing the struggles that organizations faced due to inadequate discovery phases, the concept of aiones was born. It was envisioned as a tool that could simplify and streamline this process lifecycle phase, significantly reducing the burden on process managers and team members alike.

This inspiration was rooted in the recognition that many companies, driven by the allure of automation and its promised returns, often overlooked the critical step of thorough process analysis. Consequently, IT departments frequently ended up steering the process due to their technical expertise, leading to a deviation from the actual business processes.

aiones emerges at a time when AI technology has become accessible to a wider audience, providing an opportune moment to assist users in this tedious yet crucial task. By leveraging AI in process discovery, aiones aims to ensure that processes are not just assumed based on perceived operations, but are accurately derived from real workflows, providing a true reflection of how business is conducted.

Target Audience And Setup

aiones is designed with a broad spectrum of process-driven organizations in mind, catering to the needs of not just medium to large companies but also extending its benefits to smaller enterprises that are keen on embracing process-centric operations.

Its adaptability lies in its ability to either complement existing process management teams or fully assume the role of process discovery and design. This flexibility makes aiones an invaluable asset for any organization that places a strong emphasis on continuous improvement and change driven by efficient process management.

Offering Key Features

  • Conversational Discovery and Design: At the heart of aiones is its capability to convert conversations into actionable process insights. This feature allows users to naturally discuss their workflow, tasks, systems, personnel and any other form of artifacts, with the AI seamlessly translating these dialogues into structured process data. This approach makes process discovery and design more engaging and less technical, encouraging participation from all team members.
  • Dynamic Team Integration: aiones is not just a tool; it’s a team player. It integrates effortlessly with existing teams, encouraging collaboration and the continuous generation of new process ideas. Aiones learns about the position and centers of expertise of each individual teammember and applies relevant filters to in- and outputs. This feature ensures that process discovery is a collective effort, drawing on the diverse insights and experiences of the entire team.
  • Unified Information Management: With aiones, scattered process information becomes a thing of the past. It acts as a central hub for all process-related data, ensuring that every piece of information, from casual conversations to detailed process maps, is stored, organized, and easily accessible. This consolidation of information streamlines process management and aids in maintaining a clear, unified vision of organizational processes.
  • Continuous AI-Driven Evolution: aiones is designed to evolve continuously. Its AI algorithms are constantly learning and adapting, improving their understanding of business processes and best practices. This means that the more aiones is used, the more insightful and accurate it becomes, offering suggestions and identifying opportunities for process improvement specific to market, department and process type.
  • Versatile Assistant Range: Understanding that different processes require different approaches, aiones offers a range of AI assistants, each with a unique focus. Whether it’s diving deep into data analysis or fostering creative process redesign, these assistants provide targeted support, ensuring a well-rounded approach to process management.
  • Process Knowledge Hub: Beyond discovery and design, aiones serves as an ongoing repository of process knowledge. It allows users to revisit, refine, and question their processes at any time, drawing reports, discussing potential changes, and continuously improving the workflow.
  • Flexible Operation Modes: aiones caters to varying levels of process management expertise. For organizations with established process managers, it can serve as a supporting tool, aiding in data collection and analysis. Conversely, in environments where process expertise is limited, aiones can take a more proactive role, guiding teams through discovery and design with minimal external input.

Engaging User Experience

The user experience is designed to be as intuitive and engaging as possible. The platform operates through a sophisticated yet user-friendly chat interface, supported by a robust AI engine.

This design choice ensures that interactions with aiones feel like a natural dialogue, akin to speaking with an insightful colleague, rather than interacting with a complex software system.

This conversational interface is key to reducing the barriers often associated with process discovery and design. It enables users from various backgrounds, regardless of their technical and process expertise, to participate actively.

Users can simply describe their workflow, ask questions, and provide input in their own words, while aiones intelligently interprets and organizes this information into actionable insights

Solving Key Challenges

  • Streamlining Process Discovery: aiones significantly reduces the time and effort traditionally required for process discovery. By automating and simplifying this phase, it liberates process managers to focus more on analysis and optimization, rather than getting bogged down in the minutiae of data gathering.
  • Centralized Process Information: The platform addresses the common issue of scattered and disorganized process data by serving as a unified repository. This centralization ensures that all process-related information is easily accessible, streamlining decision-making and planning.
  • Adaptable Discovery: With its anytime, anywhere approach, aiones provides unprecedented flexibility in process discovery. This adaptability is crucial in today’s fast-paced business environment, where agility and responsiveness are key to staying competitive.
  • Democratizing Process Knowledge: By reducing the requirement for extensive process knowledge from users, aiones makes process management more inclusive. Its intuitive AI engine can extract and interpret detailed information, making it accessible to all team members, regardless of their process expertise.
  • Facilitating Collaborative Solutions: The platform is designed to foster discussions around potential solutions, encouraging a collaborative approach to problem-solving. By uncovering hidden opportunities and facilitating brainstorming, aiones helps organizations to innovate and improve continuously.
  • Bridging Expertise Gaps: Recognizing that different roles within a company often have varying levels of process understanding, aiones is tailored to communicate effectively with each user, regardless of their expertise level. This feature ensures that every team member can contribute meaningfully to process discovery and improvement.
  • Safeguarding Against Information Loss: aiones plays a critical role in ensuring that no vital process information is missed. By capturing comprehensive data, the tool helps prevent oversights that could impact later stages of process management, saving costs and mitigating risks.

Upcoming Development

As aiones moves forward, our focus is on continuously evolving our AI, ensuring it remains at the cutting edge of process management technology.

This evolution includes expanding the range of AI assistants, each uniquely skilled to address specific areas of process management. We’re also enhancing collaborative capabilities by integrating third-party participants, broadening the scope and depth of insights in process discovery.

Embracing global inclusivity, we’re introducing multilingual support, making aiones accessible to a wider audience. Coupled with this, we’re developing dynamic features to align processes with ever-changing business requirements, keeping your operations agile and responsive.

Want to give it a try?
Join our Early Access Stage and see for yourself what aiones can do for you and your team!

We are looking forward to hear from you
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Process Discovery Made Easy

Three Steps To Success

Step 1

Add Teams

Add one, ten or hundreds of people to your teams and discover at scale.

Step 2

Start Discovering

Exchange messages in private or group chats and uncover knowledge.

Step 3

Use Insights

Provide custom reports, answer questions or export to your other applications.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Business Process Discovery (BPD) involves the identification, mapping, and analysis of business processes in their current state to gain a comprehensive understanding of an organization’s operations and to uncover how processes are executed.

A systematic approach helps in documenting the current state of processes, which is essential for standardization, regulatory compliance, and process re-engineering efforts.

So far, Process Discovery has mostly been done through Process Management teams, holding workshops and assembling information manually.

One well known discipline that is often associated with the field of Business Process Discovery is Process Mining. This data driven approach allows to gain insights from event logs and data storages. 

Business Process Mining refers to the discipline of identifying, mapping, and analysing business processes through data driven approaches.

When Process Mining, known processes and workflows are followed up through and tested against event logs and data storages. 

The outcome is a detailed picture of how processes have actually been executed.

Business Process Discovery, the field aiones has focused on, features extraction of information from direct communications.

We believe the people working in your organization are the best source of knowledge to understand what you do and how you generate value.

Aiones can provide you with a detailled image of your process landscape, before data is accessible – or even before processes are established!

If you are able to use chat software, you are ready to use aiones!

It’s as easy as talking, and there is no existing knowledge required.

Aiones is a conversation based discovery system that will ask you questions about your organization, processes and tasks.

Piece by piece, a larger and more detailled picture will emerge – which in turn is used to provide you with answers to questions, tailor made reports or exports for applications and development. 

No!

You can bring data from your business process management software, in the form of BPMN files – or you can provide any form of text based documentation.

But it is absolutely not required!
You can start by writing down what you currently do, and aiones will take over to ask you for more information.

We can discover with a single person, or hundreds of them!

It heavily depends on your need for accuracy.

We always suggest to include all of your employees, to draw information from a diverse pool of knowledge, and allow everyone the same access to this unique source of wisdom.

Another benefit is that you’ll be able to find and see deviations in specific countries, regions, teams or structures, if you include a wide range of your teams. 
 
But in the end, it is up to you!
You can always scale up at any time as needed.

Currently we feature the output of business process models as graphic and bpmn xml export, as well as the output of general process information in pdf reports.

Indeed!

There are two ways to test out aiones.

The first way is to access our free trial page, on which you can take part in a realistic discovery chat and generate outputs to your information. 

The second way it to book a demo and get an entry to our early access program!

More options to follow soon