OpenWateirs the name of a project that started towards
the end of 1998 in the IBM Research Laboratory in
Zurich. The principle goal of the project was to address
the problem of capturing the business process in a
computerized model by providing a system that discovers
the business process. Early on in the project the
opportunity to use the tool as the basis for knowledge
management and process mining became very apparent.
For this reason an open architecture has been adopted in
the hope that this will foster other projects in this area.