Enabling Process Mining

Enabling Process Mining in Automation Suite

Process Mining is provided as part of the Automation Suite complete profile, hence it is enabled automatically. To disable Process Mining, follow the Advanced installation experience guide.

Unified Pricing

The information on this page applies to you if you opted for the Unified Pricing Plan. If you enrolled in the Flex Plan instead, refer to License (Flex Plan).

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For general licensing information, refer to About licensing in the Automation Suite Admin guide.

Prerequisites for enabling the Process Mining service

You can enable Process Mining as a service, if you meet the following pre-requisites:

Your Automation Suite organization is on a Standard or an Enterprise platform plan license.
Your Automation Suite organization has available Platform Units (i.e. >0).
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- If you are not currently on a Standard or Enterprise platform plan, contact your UiPath Account Manager for available trial licenses.
- If you have a Standard platform license or an Enterprise platfom license, but no Platfom Units available, contact your Account Manager to purchase some.

Platform plans

With the Enterprise platform plan, depending on the roles assigned, users have access to all Process Mining capabilities, whereas the Standard plan has some limitations. The following table describes the differences between the Standard platform plan and the Enterprise platform plan for Automation Suite.

Legend:

✅ = Available

❌ = Not available


Capability	Description	Standard	Enterprise
Loading data using extractors	Ability to ingest data from external resources using CData, Theobald Xtract Universal, Integration Service extractors	❌	✅
Multi Process Process Mining	Ability to create Multi Process apps	❌	✅

Platform Units

Introduction

Process Mining will consume Platform Units based on how much data capacity is consumed. The conversion rate used is 1 Platform Unit = 625 rows. Process Mining counts the data volume in number of rows of the Event Log table available in the applications. Rows are counted based on visualized data, regardless of the uploaded quantities.

Initial data capacity

When you first load data on a tenant, 1600 Platform units are charged, which will allow you to load 1 million rows of data for the next 12 months. If there are less than 12 months remaining on the Platform Units license, the amount of Platform Units consumed will be prorated based on the remaining months on the Platform Units. For example, if your Platform Units license will expire 5 months later, the consumption will be prorated to 3,333 units.

When you load more than 1 million rows, Platform Unit consumption will be adjusted based on the difference between the new necessary capacity and the previous one. This will also apply to future data runs.

Development data and production data

It is strongly recommended to use a small dataset for app development and testing data transformations. Platform Units will be consumed regardless of the stage of the process app where the data is viewed. This means that both development datasets and production datasets consume Platform Units when loaded. The total data capacity used by one Process Mining App is the sum of the production and development dataset.

When a process app is in development, Platform Unit consumption is triggered when the data is pushed to the dashboards using the Apply to dashboards action.

Freeing up data capacity

Deleting process apps or reducing data volumes for existing process apps will free up data capacity in Process Mining. This means new data added will not trigger consumption of Platform Units unless it exceeds the previous peak capacity that was used. If you load new data but the total amount of data does not surpass the highest amount of data capacity used in the past, it will not lead to additional consumption of Platform Units.

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Platform Unit consumption and capacity are tenant based. This means that freed capacity can only be used in the same tenant where the Platform Units were originally consumed.

End of licensing period

At the end of the licensing period of Platform Units, Process Mining will re-consume Platform Units for the entire data capacity that is utilized in the product at that given time, according to the new license terms, with a minimum of 1million rows.

Maestro apps

Process Optimization apps created through Maestro that use only Maestro-generated data are not charged to your account. If your Process Optimization app combines Maestro data with external data, up to 10,000 (10k) rows are free of charge. Once the Process Optimization app exceeds 10,000 rows, it will be charged in the same way as other Process Mining apps.

License (Flex Plan)

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The information on this page applies to you if you opted for the Flex Plan. If you enrolled in the Unified Pricing Plan instead, refer to Unified Pricing.

Prerequisites for enabling the Process Mining service

You can enable Process Mining as a service, if you meet the following pre-requisites:

You have an Enterprise license.
Your organisation has available AI Units (i.e. >0).
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- If you do not currently have an Enterprise licence, contact your Account Manager for available Enterprise Trials.
- If you have an Enterprise license, but no AI Units available, contact your Account Manager to purchase some.

Flex plan

To enable the Process Mining service, you must have at least:

1 Developer user license.
5 Business user licenses.
You need to have purchased at least 120K AI Units (two small AI Unit bundles).
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Make sure the license period is still active.

AI Units

Introduction

Process Mining will consume AI Units based on how much data capacity is consumed. The conversion rate used is 1 AI Unit = 125 rows. Process Mining counts the data volume in number of rows of the Event Log table available in the applications. Rows are counted based on visualized data, regardless of the uploaded quantities.

Initial data capacity

When you first load data on a tenant, 8000 AI units are charged, which will allow you to load 1 million rows of data for the next 12 months. If there are less than 12 months remaining on the AI Units license, the amount of AI Units consumed will be prorated based on the remaining months on the AI Units. For example, if your AI Units license will expire 5 months later, the consumption will be prorated to 3,333 units.

When you load more than 1 million rows, AI Unit consumption will be adjusted based on the difference between the new necessary capacity and the previous one. This will also apply to future data runs.

Development data and production data

It is strongly recommended to use a small dataset for app development and testing data transformations. AI Units will be consumed regardless of the stage of the process app where the data is viewed. This means that both development datasets and production datasets consume AI Units when loaded. The total data capacity used by one Process Mining App is the sum of the production and development dataset.

When a process app is in development, AI Unit consumption is triggered when the data is pushed to the dashboards using the Apply to dashboards action.

Freeing up data capacity

Deleting process apps or reducing data volumes for existing process apps will free up data capacity in Process Mining. This means new data added will not trigger consumption of AI Units unless it exceeds the previous peak capacity that was used. If you load new data but the total amount of data does not surpass the highest amount of data capacity used in the past, it will not lead to additional consumption of AI Units.

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AI Unit consumption and capacity are tenant based. This means that freed capacity can only be used in the same tenant where the AI Units were originally consumed.

End of licensing period

At the end of the licensing period of AI Units, Process Mining will re-consume AI Units for the entire data capacity that is utilized in the product at that given time, according to the new license terms, with a minimum of 1million rows.

Refer to AI Units for more information on AI Units.

Maestro apps

Enabling the Process Mining service

To start using Process Mining in Automation Suite, you must enable the Process Mining service on a selected tenant. Follow these steps to enable the Process Mining services on a tenant.

Log in to Automation Suite in with your UiPath® account.
Select Admin to display the list of available tenants and enable the service for an already existing tenant.
Locate the tenant for which you want to enable the Process Mining service.
Select the Services tile. The Services page for the tenant opens, showing the services that are currently provisioned.
Select Add services.
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The button is only available if you have not already provisioned all services.
Select the Process Mining checkbox in the Add services panel.
Select Add.

The Add services panel closes and the tenant is briefly unavailable while the Process Mining service is being provisioned. When finished, the Process Mining service is displayed on the Services page.

Services page

When accessing the newly created/updated tenant, the Process Mining service is displayed on the left-hand side panel.