Why Not Go Straight to AI Agents?
Stereologic.
The baseline-first argument: an agent pointed at an undocumented process inherits every workaround in it.
Why Not Go Straight to AI Agents?Read the positionResources
Insights, guides and reference material.
Practitioner material on measuring how work is actually performed — Stereologic’s own position, presentations and case studies, interviews and press coverage, and the documents available on request. Every item shows its source, its author and its date.
Start here
The argument, in two documents.
If you read nothing else here, read these. Both make the same case: the operational baseline has to be measured before anything is automated on top of it.
How Stereologic Accelerates and Secures Agentic AI Success
By Dr. Sofia Passova.
What has to be known about an operation before agents are pointed at it, and how discovery supplies it.
How Stereologic Accelerates and Secures Agentic AI SuccessRequest the paperPresentations and case studies
Practitioners describing the work.
Conference material and customer-side accounts, written by the people who ran the engagements rather than by marketing.
Practical Implementation of Process Mining at Large North American Financial Services Enterprises
Presentation by David Whyte, Process Mining Conference.
Practical Implementation of Process Mining at Large North American Financial Services EnterprisesRequest the presentationHow precise knowledge of employee operations can simplify your transformation effort and reduce the risk
A case study by Scott Gorman, Senior Vice President, New Business Operations, Underwriting & Product Development.
How precise knowledge of employee operations can simplify your transformation effort and reduce the riskRequest the case studyMaximizing the Automation ROI and Acceleration of RPA Implementation
Case study, US nationwide bottled water producer.
Maximizing the Automation ROI and Acceleration of RPA ImplementationRequest the case studyPodcasts and interviews
Conversations, on the record.
Operational Intelligences and How Companies Can Improve Business Process Inefficiencies
Sofia Passova and Stan Passov with Jill Malandrino.
How companies can find the process inefficiencies they cannot currently see.
Operational Intelligences and How Companies Can Improve Business Process InefficienciesWatch the interviewAutomate Process Discovery and Task Mining to Improve Outcomes
Patrick Morrison, Stereologic EVP Sales, interviewed by Christopher Whyte, Digital Pragmatic.
Automate Process Discovery and Task Mining to Improve OutcomesRequest the recordingEXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Stereologic CEO Sofia Passova on innovative business solutions software
Interview with Dr. Sofia Passova by Joshua Manning.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Stereologic CEO Sofia Passova on innovative business solutions softwareRead the interviewQ&A: Why process mining is critical in the post-COVID workplace?
Interview with Dr. Sofia Passova by Dr. Tim Sandle.
Q&A: Why process mining is critical in the post-COVID workplace?Read the interviewWomen Of The C-Suite: Dr. Sofia Passova Of Stereologic On The Five Things You Need To Succeed As A Senior Executive
Interview with Dr. Sofia Passova by Charlie Katz.
Women Of The C-Suite: Dr. Sofia Passova Of Stereologic On The Five Things You Need To Succeed As A Senior ExecutiveRead the interviewCoverage
Where the work has been written about.
Trade press, analyst commentary and company announcements. Listed with their publication and date so the age of each is obvious.
Process mining becomes acquisition target, altering the terrain
By Jim O’Donnell, News Writer.
Process mining becomes acquisition target, altering the terrainRead the articleEliminating expensive inefficiencies with process and task mining
Article by Stan Passov.
Eliminating expensive inefficiencies with process and task miningRead the articleUiPath Unassisted Task Mining was removed. What should former users do now?
UiPath removed Unassisted Task Mining from Automation Cloud on 1 December 2025. What was lost, what UiPath offers now, and how to evaluate a replacement.
Stereologic Unveils Fast, Non-Intrusive Data Discovery to Accelerate Transition to Data-Driven Enterprise
Press release.
Automated data discovery: helping enterprises find ungoverned and unstructured data, remove privacy and security risk, and open it up for use.
Unlock Finance Transformation With Process Mining
Stereologic is referenced in this Gartner research.
Why process mining matters to finance organizations, and why adoption there has lagged the rest of the enterprise.
Separating Fact From Fiction In Digital Transformation ROI
By Neal Oswald.
Why transformation business cases so rarely show up in the monthly P&L, written for finance chiefs.
What Good is Robotic Process Automation (RPA)?
By Sofia Passova, Ph.D.
Many business tasks can be automated; not all of them need to be. On why automation planned from interviews and spot-checks fails.
Available on request
Seven documents, sent on request.
Ask for the one you want by name and it is sent to you by reply.
01
Successful Transformation Projects Begin and End with 360° Process Mining, Discovery and Diagnostics
Presentation by Dr. Sofia Passova.
02
How to Accelerate the Implementation of RPA and Reduce the Risk of Failure
White paper. How to get the operational data needed to calculate RPA return, accelerate RPA discovery and complete RPA projects with lower risk.
03
How to Map and Measure Hundreds of Processes in a Short Period of Time
Presentation by Dr. Sofia Passova, from the Process Mapping and Modeling Open House.
04
How did Pitney Bowes Accelerate Back Office Operations by 56% in less than 90 days
Case study. Scope and source. The 56% figure is the improvement in customer service response in back-office customer management operations at Pitney Bowes, measured in under 90 days, and is drawn from Stereologic’s published case study. The full story and method is published here.
05
Reality Based Business Operations are Finally Here
White paper by Jim Sinur, an expert in intelligent business operations and co-author of BPM: The Third Wave.
06
How Can I Manage my Operations?
White paper by Simon Holloway, practice leader in business process management, Bloor Research, UK.
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Secrets of Success: Process Excellence for RPA and Transformation in “No Time”
Joint presentation with East West Bank and the City of Toronto, by Jen S. Li and Fazal Husain. OPEX Week: Business Transformation World Summit, San Diego, summer 2017.
How to ask
Use the enquiry form, name the document, and it is sent by reply. If you are in a security or procurement review, ask for the Security and Compliance Pack in the same message.
Analyst reference
Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Process Mining Tools.
Published 20 March 2023. By Marc Kerremans, Kimihiko Iijima, Andrei Razvan Sachelarescu, Nick Duffy and David Sugden.
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