In December 2017 I was approached to provide a statement on the 2018 perspective and trend for process mining. I intensely looked into this topic since 2016 and especially thought a lot about how process mining can fit into related methods and technologies. Although process mining seems to be overall a bit less attended and less popular than other topics such as Robotic Process Automation/RPA, I am convinced that it will become more and more important. As process mining can provide a really...