Enabling the service in Automation Cloud^TM

Introduction

To start using the Process Mining in Automation Cloud^TM, you must enable the Process Mining service on a selected cloud tenant.

Below is an overview of the minimum requirements for working with Process Mining (Cloud).

Prerequisites for enabling the Process Mining service

You can enable Process Mining as a service, in Automation Cloud^TM, if you meet the following two pre-requisites:

• You have an Enterprise Automation Cloud^TM license.
• Your Automation Cloud^TM organisation has available AI Units (i.e. >0).

Note:

• 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.

License

To enable the Process Mining service in Automation Cloud^TM, 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).

Important:

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 enabling Process Mining for a tenant, 8000 AI units are charged, which will allow you to ingest 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 lower.

When you ingest 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 ingestions.

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 ingested. 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 ingest 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.

Note:

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.

Access to Automation Cloud^TM

To start using the Process Mining service you need an Automation Cloud^TM account.

See About Automation Cloud for more details.

Note: See Software Requirements for the prerequisites that apply to all Automation Cloud^TM services.

Tenants and services

The Process Mining service that allows you to manage and set up process apps, must be enabled on each of the tenants where the Process Mining service will be used.

See About Tenants for more details about Automation Cloud^TM tenants.

Note: Process Mining is a tenant-level service signifying that each tenant's data is segregated. This means that you need to enable the service for each of the tenants where this is needed.

See Managing Tenants for a detailed description on how to enable a service in Automation Cloud^TM.

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