How to interpret labor savings, ROI, and payback
The labor savings and ROI estimate are designed to make migration conversations easier, not to replace a technical assessment. They translate workflow counts and cost assumptions into a simple starting point for sales, scoping, and pilot planning.
What the labor savings number means
Labor savings compares the estimated manual rebuild cost against the Flow Migrator-assisted conversion cost. The model uses fixed effort assumptions by workflow complexity so the estimate stays consistent across sales conversations.
A strong savings number means the customer has enough workflow complexity or volume for automation to materially reduce conversion labor. A smaller result usually means the project is small, simple, or primarily a licensing conversation.
- High labor savings: strong candidate for Flow Migrator-assisted assessment and conversion.
- Moderate labor savings: good candidate, especially if workflow exports reveal partial or limit-risk patterns.
- Low labor savings: use the calculator as a planning aid, then validate value with real workflow exports.
- Negative or delayed payback: revisit assumptions, project scope, or platform-savings inputs.
How effort is positioned
The model is intentionally conservative but no longer treats every supported action as a long manual rebuild task. Supported actions are treated as generated mappings that need quick review. Most work is reserved for partial patterns, unsupported patterns, validation, and remediation.
Tool-assisted effort is lower because Flow Migrator handles the first-pass mapping, analysis report, package generation, and known pattern detection. Customer effort remains for validation, connection setup, owner sign-off, and complex remediation.
How to talk about savings
Use savings as a planning value until actual workflow exports have been analyzed. The strongest customer case usually combines labor savings, avoided or reduced Nintex renewal, better Power Platform standardization, and improved visibility into migration blockers.
If a customer already owns Microsoft 365 or Power Platform capacity, the licensing delta may be smaller. If premium connectors, Dataverse, custom connectors, or process licenses are needed, licensing should be reviewed separately.