Administration and deployment of process mining
From an administrative and deployment perspective, consider the topic from the following two perspectives:
Process mining analysis efforts - This perspective covers the work of ingesting the data into Power Automate Process Mining and performing the analysis of the process. No deployment is related to this activity, only administration to support the process mining activities.
Process mining improvement efforts - As an outcome of your process mining analysis, you might recommend and/or implement improvements to the process. You might implement some of these improvements directly into the original systems of records. Some improvements might be new and originate from your process mining analysis session, so you need to complete them by using Microsoft Power Platform capabilities.
Administration support for your process mining analysis efforts
The Microsoft Power Platform environment offers Power Automate Process Mining. Which environment you use to perform the process mining analysis depends on a few different factors.
If the target process of the analysis includes components that already run in a Microsoft Power Platform environment, then it's appropriate to use that Microsoft Power Platform process development environment to perform the analysis. This reasoning assumes that you have in place, at minimum, a development, test, and production environment for the existing process. When you use the processes development environment, any other Microsoft Power Platform assets that you create in response to the analysis would join your already established application lifecycle management (ALM) procedures. For example, during the process analysis efforts, you ask Microsoft Copilot, "How do I fix the bottleneck?" In response, Copilot proposes a Power Automate cloud flow. If you use Copilot to start the creation of that flow, it creates the flow in the same environment. Then, you can add it to the existing Microsoft Power Platform solution that you use to deploy other parts of the application.
To analyze a process that doesn't currently use Microsoft Power Platform components as part of the process, you need to create a new Microsoft Power Platform environment to support your process mining analysis efforts. If you plan to use the Copilot features in Power Automate Process Mining to create Microsoft Power Platform components that improve the process, Copilot creates those components in this new Microsoft Power Platform environment. You can treat this new environment as a development environment, where you use ALM tools from Microsoft Power Platform to promote the improvements to the test and production environments that you create to support the running of improvements in production.
Alternatively, you can complete the process mining analysis in a dedicated environment for your analysis efforts, and then you can handle administration and deployment of your process improvements separately.
Microsoft Power Platform environments provide much flexibility in how you can use them. For more information, see Create and manage environments in Dataverse.
Administration and deployment for process mining improvements
You need to communicate any improvements that you make to non-Microsoft Power Platform systems with the system owners. Then, you would use their normal change-control process to get the improvements into the other system.
During your process mining efforts, if you use and follow Copilot suggestions for resolving inefficiencies, such as creating a new flow or a new app from Microsoft Power Apps, Copilot creates the resulting assets in the same environment. You need to add these assets to a Microsoft Dataverse solution so that it can follow ALM procedures from Microsoft Power Platform.
The following video demonstrates various Microsoft Power Platform assets that were created to improve a process. It also shows how to deploy the assets by using the ALM capabilities from Microsoft Power Platform.
Tenant process mining capacity
The Process Mining feature is licensed as part of Microsoft Power Automate. Three Power Automate licenses are related to process mining, and a Microsoft Power BI license is required for Power BI report customization.
Power Automate Trial license - Full task mining capabilities and limited process mining capabilities. Trial licenses have capacity limits and are limited to 30 or 90 days. A key factor to know is that the trial limits the process mining capacity to 100 MBs for each process. While this trial license can help you understand how process mining works, it wouldn't be enough for analyzing most real-world processes.
Power Automate Premium license - Full task mining capabilities and full process mining capabilities based on capacity. Each licensed user increases the process mining capacity pool. This license also increases Dataverse database capacity and Dataverse file capacity.
Power Automate Process Mining add-on - This license is a tenant-wide license. It increases process mining capacity, Dataverse database capacity, and Dataverse file capacity.
As part of your planning stages of preparing to use process mining for a process, you should evaluate the size of the historical event log data that you need to analyze and ensure that your tenant capacity is sufficient.