bupaR vs Cortado

bupaR is a free, open-source suite of R packages for working with business process data. It supports importing and preparing event data, calculating descriptive statistics, visualising processes, and checking conformance. Analysts can examine control flow, performance, and organisational aspects, while including custom process attributes in their workflow. It handles event logs, where each row represents an event, and activity logs, where each row represents an activity instance. Process maps help summarise processes and can be used in Shiny apps or exported to PDF, PNG, PS, or EPS. The bupaverse core contains bupaR, edeaR, eventdataR, processcheckR, and processmapR. The xesreadR package reads XES files from a local path or URL and writes event logs to XES. Installation instructions cover CRAN and GitHub development versions. The package requires R 3.5.0 or later and is licensed under MIT plus a license file. For prediction with processpredictR, Python, TensorFlow, and Keras are required. Validation of larger event logs can take time, though the documentation allows it to be disabled when the data meets requirements.

Cortado is a free, open-source tool for interactive process discovery and process mining. It imports event logs in .xes format and initial process models in .ptml format. A variant explorer lets users inspect event logs visually and choose process behavior for discovery. Users can build an initial model from selected behavior, extend it with further behavior, and edit models manually while they are in progress. Discovered models can be exported as .ptml or .pnml files. Cortado supports temporal performance analysis both with a model and independently of one, and it supports conformance checking. The application combines an Angular frontend embedded in an Electron executable with a Python backend. Its repository lists the GPL-3.0 license. Standalone builds are listed for Windows 10/11, Linux, and macOS with Apple Silicon only. Help pages for selected functions are available in the tool, and the project invites questions and custom requests by email. The software metadata says administrator rights may be required to run it. The project identifies v1.12.1 as its latest release and gives the release date as June 25.