--- title: Leonardo Invests in Apromore to advance AI-Driven, Open-Source Process Mining Technology description: Leonardo announces its investment in Apromore - a leading developer of open-source, AI-driven process mining technology. image: https://blog.leonardo.com.au/hubfs/Images/LC3/lc3bg14.png --- [![LeonardoUST_CMYK-1](https://blog.leonardo.com.au/hubfs/LeonardoUST_CMYK-1.svg "LeonardoUST_CMYK-1")](https://www.leonardo.com.au/) [![Talk to Us](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/430417/7eb77b0e-c703-49d8-930c-a6d73a5e986f.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/430417/7eb77b0e-c703-49d8-930c-a6d73a5e986f) ![cross-icon](https://blog.leonardo.com.au/hubfs/cross-icon.svg?t=1536031936288 "cross-icon") ![business-design](https://blog.leonardo.com.au/hubfs/business-design.svg "business-design") ###### [Business Design](https://www.leonardo.com.au/business-design-consulting-advisory) ![process-automation](https://blog.leonardo.com.au/hubfs/process-automation.svg "process-automation") ###### [Process Automation](https://www.leonardo.com.au/process-automation) ![data-integration](https://blog.leonardo.com.au/hubfs/data-integration.svg "data-integration") ###### [Integration & API](https://www.leonardo.com.au/integration) ![platform-engineering](https://blog.leonardo.com.au/hubfs/platform-engineering.svg "platform-engineering") ###### [Platform Engineering](https://www.leonardo.com.au/platform-engineering) ![Event_bg](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hub/3842749/hubfs/Backgrounds%20/Event_bg.jpg?width=2000&name=Event_bg.jpg "Event_bg") # The Leonardo Blog ## [Leonardo Invests in Apromore to advance AI-Driven, Open-Source Process Mining Technology](https://blog.leonardo.com.au/leonardo-invests-in-apromore-to-advance-ai-driven-open-source-process-mining-technology) Written by [Daniel Weatherhead](https://blog.leonardo.com.au/author/daniel-weatherhead) On July 6, 2020 [** ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/weatherhead) - [Automation (2)](https://blog.leonardo.com.au/topic/automation) - [bpm (3)](https://blog.leonardo.com.au/topic/bpm) - [BPM - Business Process Management (111)](https://blog.leonardo.com.au/topic/bpm-business-process-management) - [BPM/EA Technology (25)](https://blog.leonardo.com.au/topic/bpmea-technology) - [Business Innovation (5)](https://blog.leonardo.com.au/topic/business-innovation) - [CXM (1)](https://blog.leonardo.com.au/topic/cxm) - [EA - Enterprise Architecture (7)](https://blog.leonardo.com.au/topic/ea-enterprise-architecture) - [Intergration (12)](https://blog.leonardo.com.au/topic/intergration) - [**](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.leonardo.com.au%2Fleonardo-invests-in-apromore-to-advance-ai-driven-open-source-process-mining-technology) - [**](https://www.twitter.com/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.leonardo.com.au%2Fleonardo-invests-in-apromore-to-advance-ai-driven-open-source-process-mining-technology) - [**](http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://blog.leonardo.com.au/leonardo-invests-in-apromore-to-advance-ai-driven-open-source-process-mining-technology) [All Posts](https://blog.leonardo.com.au) # Leonardo Invests in Apromore to advance AI-Driven, Open-Source Process Mining Technology - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – 7 July 2020 – Leonardo today announced its investment in [Apromore](http://www.apromore.org) - a leading developer of open-source, AI-driven process mining technology. The investment forms part of a Series A round of funding totalling $A6.8 million, led by German business process management specialist [GBTEC](https://www.gbtec.com), and also included [The University of Melbourne](https://www.unimelb.edu.au), which helped to incubate Apromore prior to spin off. - Leonardo invests in emerging process mining software startup [Apromore](http://www.apromore.org) - Apromore has spun out of [The University of Melbourne’s School of Computing and Information Systems](https://cis.unimelb.edu.au) - Process Mining is the future of AI-driven automated process improvement - Leonardo’s clients are seeing process mining further support them in digital transformation to its full extent ![Apromore+Leonardo copy](https://blog.leonardo.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/Apromore+Leonardo%20copy.jpg?width=3000&name=Apromore+Leonardo%20copy.jpg) Leonardo’s Managing Director Adam Mutton commented on Apromore’s potential: > “Apromore is leading the way in innovative AI Driven Process Improvement – from automated discovery of actual as-Is processes, to predictive process modelling based on live data to future directions involving integrated robotic process discovery, scripting and automation. We have seen real business value from using process mining and integrating this technology with our intelligent end-to-end process improvement approach. Improving processes with data-based analysis across business systems helps pinpoint the bottlenecks and validate automation opportunities.” Apromore’s CEO, Prof. Marcello La Rosa, highlighted that: > “Apromore inherits a decade of R&D in the field of business process management and process mining and we have packed the most advanced algorithms for process mining into Apromore’s products. This investment will allow us to maintain our competitive advantage, by incorporating the latest research and innovations in the field of AI-driven automated process improvement into our product. It will also allow us to continue pursuing our mission of democratising process mining via a commercial open-source business model.” ## Process Mining Enables Agile, Real Time Production Planning Decisions Apromore provides process mining, a [data-driven approach to analysing and improving business processes](https://blog.leonardo.com.au/data-driven-insights-can-transform-your-business). Traditionally, business processes are discovered and analysed by observing and interviewing the people who use them – a labour-intensive and error-prone job. In contrast, Apromore analyses the vast data that is contained in modern business IT systems, such as enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management systems. [Apromore’s process mining algorithms](https://www.leonardo.com.au/apromore-process-mining-services-consulting) can, for example, automatically reverse-engineer the processes supported by these systems, and identify bottlenecks, deviations from policy or compliance violations, and quality issues affecting customer experience. One of [Leonardo’s](https://www.leonardo.com.au/) clients, a food production company has already seen real business value using Apromore’s Process Mining tool on a recent project: > “Leonardo and Apromore enabled this business to dramatically reduce discovery and analysis time, rapidly analyse large data sets and drill to specific issues that have determined this customer’s highest priority improvement projects. This helped provide the business with live production analytics and performance data to enable more agile and real time production planning decisions.” said [Marco Fargnoli – Consulting Principal ](https://www.leonardo.com.au/our-people)for Leonardo. ## Apromore's Story [Apromore ](https://www.leonardo.com.au/apromore-process-mining-services-consulting)was incubated at the School of Computing and Information Systems (CIS) of Melbourne School of Engineering for two years, before a company was incorporated in 2019. The startup was co-founded by [Professor Marcello La Rosa](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcellolarosa/?originalSubdomain=au) of CIS and [Professor Marlon Dumas](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marlondumas/?originalSubdomain=ee) of the University of Tartu, Estonia, with their former PhD student Dr Ilya Verenich and Apromore’s Chief Architect Dr Simon Raboczi. 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Over the past two decades, Leonardo has helped their clients both in local and international, take manual, outdated, broken processes and reimagine them for the digital age – ensuring that the business strategies are embedded, automated and integrated into the systems and platforms that drive better experiences with customers and stakeholders.  To learn more, visit: [https://www.leonardo.com.au/](https://www.leonardo.com.au/) ## About Apromore Pty Ltd Apromore Pty Ltd is a leading provider of open-source solutions for process mining and AI-driven business process improvement. Their vision is to democratize process mining by enabling organizations to achieve digital transparency and operational excellence. We’ve helped dozens of organizations leverage the full potential of their business transactional data to enhance their productivity, product & service quality, and compliance.. To learn more, visit [https://apromore.org](https://apromore.org/) ## For media related enquiries - please contact: Daniel Weatherhead Tel.: +61424160635 E-Mail: [d.weatherhead@leonardo.com.au](mailto:d.weatherhead@leonardo.com.au) **Gartner Disclaimer** Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.   ![Daniel Weatherhead](https://blog.leonardo.com.au/hubfs/Daniel_0822_LI2.jpg) ###### Daniel Weatherhead A seasoned digital leader with over 20 years of experience, aligning marketing, client, tech and brand strategies. 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