Child flow license

[aaroh_bits]

Hi All,

• In a process of digital transformation, a client has SharePoint Designer 2013 (SPD 2013) workflow, and the number of workflows is 200 and wants to build these workflow in SharePoint Online with Office 365 seeded license.
  
  
• Client wants to rebuild these workflows in Power Automate.  
  
  
• Clients operate in different countries and the total number of employees is 3000.  
  
  
• There are many workflows that have very similar logic of generating automate numbers and approval process for various departments.

Business Requirements for business is as follows:

1. Requirement 1:  Collate all the SPD 2013 workflows (running number, approval process) into Power Automate.
2. Requirement 2: The Power Automate design should be generic and   other countries should be able to use the same workflow. Approval matrix in SharePoint Online should be dynamic for each country.
   
   

Requirement 1 Query:
As clients wants to standardize all regional workflow and minimize no of workflows to avoid operational overhead,

Q: Will using Power Automate parent and child flows good option?  There is FAQ for child flow Frequently asked questions about Power Automate licensing - Power Platform | Microsoft Learn and it looks needs premium license. Any other option would be recommend for this requirement. 



The client definitely not to buy 3000 users’ Power Automate premium license.      

Requirement 2 Query:
Q: What is suitable Power Automate design that is generic and scalable as number of countries might increases?

Please advice.

@trice602 , @SudeepGhatakNZ , @Chriddle @ManishSolanki 

[FLMike]

Hello,

As someone specifically who did this for Microsoft for decades for thousands of customers/isvs/partners etc, I would really recommend you sit down with the Account Manager and have them get a resource to help figure this out. Do they have a field/cat/account rep anything? With the size it sounds like they must have some contact related to at least licensing, who will be more than happy to bring someone in.

There is a lot of information about what the Flows will do that matters.

Technically if all the flows were "triggered" for instance that's a much different license model than if they are specifically activated by a user.

Triggered: New record is created in SharePoint

Triggered by User: Calculate the ROI and return it to the user in real-time

I really would hate to you base your answer off this forum. 

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[aaroh_bits]

Thanks @FLMike 
The client does have Microsoft AE and is managing this account. They can help with the licensing aspect. 
They do not have any partner yet who can help in designing this technical requirement.  

[FLMike]

They need to talk to their AE then.

They will absolutely bring someone in to talk to them. I'm not saying they will build it, but they will help. I did it thousands of times in these situations over the years for the product team.

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