Splunk® Business Flow (Legacy)

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Splunk Business Flow is no longer available for purchase as of June 20, 2020. Customers who have already purchased Business Flow will continue to have support and maintenance per standard support terms for the remainder of contractual commitments.
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Welcome to Splunk Business Flow

Welcome to Splunk Business Flow (SBF). SBF is a process mining solution that allows users to explore and visualize business processes, discover connections across disparate systems, and optimize flows.

Where to start

To install SBF, see Install Splunk Business Flow.

If you are new to SBF, see the Getting Started Tutorial.

To review the known issues, fixed issues, and new features, see Release Notes for Splunk Business Flow.

To learn more about features and concepts in SBF, see the user manual Splunk Business Flow User Manual.

How to administer Splunk Business Flow for your organization

As Splunk platform administrator, you are responsible for the following Splunk Business Flow administration tasks.

Task Description Instructions
Install SBF You must install the app. Install Splunk Business Flow
Configure SBF You must register the app with the SBF Hosted Environment and add your license. Set up Splunk Business Flow
Assign roles and capabilities You can assign roles and capabilities to your users. Configure roles and manage access to Splunk Business Flow
Back up and restore your registration information Backing up your registration information allows you to restore the app on the existing search head or migrate it to a different search head. Suppose you have more than one search head in your deployment. For example, as a Splunk administrator, you might want to try out the SBF app on one search head before migrating it to another search head with more users. Back up and restore your SBF registration information
Upgrade Splunk Business Flow When new versions of the app package become available, you must upgrade Splunk Business Flow. Upgrade Splunk Business Flow
Last modified on 27 November, 2019
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SBF concepts and terminology

This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Business Flow (Legacy): -Latest-


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