1. A method of establishing a tracking profile for selective monitoring and reporting of process state data pertaining to a displayed workflow representation of a process, comprising: selecting at least one portion of the displayed workflow representation and associating the selected portion(s) with respective process part labels; and generating a tracking profile based on the selected workflow representation portion(s), said profile establishing parameters for monitoring and writing to a queryable database process state data pertaining to instances of said process represented within said displayed workflow representation.