Roel Vliegen

Roel Vliegen

Co-Founder & CEO

About Roel Vliegen

Roel began his career focused on data visualization, helping make data clear, useful, and engaging. He later expanded into business intelligence and Process Mining before co-founding ProcessGold. Driven by curiosity, Roel looks for practical insights in data that can improve business operations.

Expertise and Approach

Roel brings clarity to complex business challenges. His expertise in business process management, process modeling, and workflow optimization helps teams simplify workflows and make day-to-day work more efficient. He helps organizations turn data into actionable insights and improve business outcomes. To see how that works in practice, explore process intelligence on the ProcessMind platform.

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AI and Business Process Architecture: One Curated Truth

Process Architecture

AI and Business Process Architecture: One Curated Truth

AI helps draft and analyze your architecture. People still decide what is true: one curated source, governed versions, Enterprise assistants via MCP.

BPMN vs UML vs Flowchart: Which Diagram to Use

Process Modeling

BPMN vs UML vs Flowchart: Which Diagram to Use

BPMN vs UML: what each notation models, one table to decide with, and why we standardise on BPMN 2.0 instead of a notation of our own.

Process Modeling and Process Mining: Better Together

Process Modeling

Process Modeling and Process Mining: Better Together

Learn what process modeling and process mining each show, where they differ, and how conformance checking connects them.

Digital Twin of an Organization: How to Build One in Stages

Digital Transformation

Digital Twin of an Organization: How to Build One in Stages

A digital twin of an organization connects a process model, event data and measurement. See the path from documented processes to live process health.

ETL Tools for Process Mining: What You Need

Data

ETL Tools for Process Mining: What You Need

When process mining needs ETL, what the extract has to contain, and why ProcessMind loads whatever your existing pipeline produces.

How Process Intelligence for Sustainability Makes Claims

Digital Transformation

How Process Intelligence for Sustainability Makes Claims

Trace sustainability figures from reports to the process events behind them.

How to Analyze Your Process and Find a Process Bottleneck

Process Mining

How to Analyze Your Process and Find a Process Bottleneck

ProcessMind's six-step method for reading your dashboards, exploring the flow and finding a process bottleneck you can defend with evidence.

Process Monitoring: How to Keep Improvements on Track

Process Mining

Process Monitoring: How to Keep Improvements on Track

Learn how to monitor process health, set a target on each measure, and check the data behind it. Use a monthly checklist to catch drift.

Event Log Process Mining: How to Build One

Process Mining

Event Log Process Mining: How to Build One

Build a process mining event log with the right columns, a downloadable restaurant example, and step-by-step Excel and SQL methods.

Find Process Automation Opportunities with Process Mining

Process Improvement

Find Process Automation Opportunities with Process Mining

Learn how process mining helps you assess automation candidates, estimate addressable effort, and decide when RPA is not the right answer.

How to Implement Process Optimization: A Practical Guide

Process Improvement

How to Implement Process Optimization: A Practical Guide

A practical guide to process optimization: prioritize opportunities, build an implementation plan, test changes with simulation, and sustain results.

MCP Server Process Mining: The Bridge to Your Data

Process Mining

MCP Server Process Mining: The Bridge to Your Data

Your AI assistant is only as useful as the context it can reach. ProcessMind's MCP server is the bridge to the process knowledge you have already curated.

Object Centric Process Mining: When Does It Fit?

Process Mining

Object Centric Process Mining: When Does It Fit?

Use OCPM when objects converge; use Multiple Perspectives when they share events but can be analyzed separately.

How ProcessMind’s Clarity Engine Keeps Process Maps Readable

Process Modeling

How ProcessMind’s Clarity Engine Keeps Process Maps Readable

See how the Clarity Engine lays out process graphs, what changes in the diagram, and how to compare the result with your own process data.

Process Mining Performance: Benchmarks and Tips

Process Mining

Process Mining Performance: Benchmarks and Tips

See how data volume, file format, and query shape affect process mining performance, with dated benchmarks from 100K to 100M events.

Task Mining: What It Captures and What to Use Instead

Process Mining

Task Mining: What It Captures and What to Use Instead

See what task mining records and how to discover work without desktop monitoring.

Value Stream Mapping: Connect Strategy to Performance

Process Architecture

Value Stream Mapping: Connect Strategy to Performance

Learn how value stream mapping connects end-to-end process architecture, real process data, and improvement work in ProcessMind.

What Is a BPMS? Business Process Management, Explained

Process Modeling

What Is a BPMS? Business Process Management, Explained

A BPMS models and executes defined processes. See its five parts, where it stops, and why process knowledge matters more than execution.

What Is a Digital Twin? A Definition, Types, and Uses

Digital Transformation

What Is a Digital Twin? A Definition, Types, and Uses

See how digital twins work, from physical assets to business processes.

BPMN 2.0: A Practical Guide to the Notation

Process Modeling

BPMN 2.0: A Practical Guide to the Notation

Learn how BPMN 2.0 represents processes, from events and activities to gateways, pools, lanes, and artifacts.

What Is Digital Transformation? Definition and Benefits

Digital Transformation

What Is Digital Transformation? Definition and Benefits

Learn what digital transformation means, why it matters, and how to build a practical strategy with a five-phase framework for change.

Process Mining Data: What You Need to Get Started

Process Mining

Process Mining Data: What You Need to Get Started

What process mining data you need, where to find it, how to check it, and how to load a first dataset without a data engineer.

Process Mapping Software: Types, Symbols and Examples

Process Modeling

Process Mapping Software: Types, Symbols and Examples

Learn how process mapping works, compare nine map types, and choose the right symbols, tools, and template for your process.

What Is Process Mining? See How Work Really Happens

Process Mining

What Is Process Mining? See How Work Really Happens

Learn what process mining is, how it works, its three types, common use cases, and how to get started.

What Is RPA? How Robotic Process Automation Works

Process Improvement

What Is RPA? How Robotic Process Automation Works

RPA uses software bots to operate applications through user interfaces. Learn what it handles well, where it falls short, and how to choose candidates.

Why ProcessMind: The Story Behind the Product

Process Mining

Why ProcessMind: The Story Behind the Product

What we learned at ProcessGold and UiPath, why the model and the data belong together, the loop we built around them, and the company-wide architecture we are working towards.

Process Mining Connectors: When They Pay Off

Data

Process Mining Connectors: When They Pay Off

See when process mining connectors justify the setup and maintenance, and how a data template lets you start with an export you already have.

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