Celonis vs. SAS 360 Plan

Celonis is well suited especially for comparably big use cases due to hefty license costs. For thorough analyses, all departments should take part in the approach since there are a lot of hidden influences and effects from departments to one another. Use cases like conformance / revision are possible but will not be a big lever since this only involves checking single instances.

Incentivized

• Clear understanding on how the processes really run
• Excellent solution to support use cases like harmonization, process excellence, audit and compliance
• High performing methodology to build economic value addressing inefficiencies
• Perfect to convince clients showing objective evidences
• Make easy the enterprise collaboration
• Provide an E2E "movie" of the processes
• Able to ensure a centric model to connect all the core processes
• Top performances that save time of the analyst that can spend energy in his real work
• Excellent ETL, agnostic (able to extrapolate data from many DB)
• Strong capabilities of the data model
• Continuous innovation
• Solid platform to address projects of business process reengineering

Incentivized

• Create and manage a detailed plan for a marketing campaign: when you create detailed project plans and then task and role levels, SAS Marketing Operations Management (SAS MOM) makes it easier to coordinate between projects with very little, if any, issues.
• Share, reuse and leverage existing marketing assets: Like some marketing tools, SAS MOM allows you to create and reuse assets across various channels.
• Manage project collaboration and execution: You are allowed to set up a workflow that helps move processes along without having to manage each step of the project.

Incentivized

• User interface is complex and so it can take some time for users who are new to process mining to become familiar with the tool
• Celonis is not able to integrate with all of Uniper's enterprise application due to lack of connectors
• No real-time collaboration with other users e.g. lack of shared annotations

Incentivized

• It would be good to have a Storyboard feature to summarize and tie together some of the dashboard metrics.
• Missing feature: Hubspot CRM integration.

Incentivized

We have been able to leverage Celonis [greatly] because of the commitment and support we receive from our data scientist. I strongly believe that we would not be able to accomplish this without her assistance. Moreover, when we escalate matters, the product development is engaged and commits resources to make sure our initiatives/business cases are supported.

Incentivized

It is a great tool but also requires a lot of work to get it into a useable fashion. Part of this is on our end as we don't have the dedicated analyst function yet to really become self-sufficient with Celonis. It also uncovers a lot of data issues or at the very least, multiple rounds of development and data validation are required before getting to a position where the business users feel comfortable with the data being reflected. This is fairly normal with any data-related development effort and perhaps not unique to Celonis.

Incentivized

We submit tickets to Celonis through product support. No assistance is generally provided, have to wait and the ticket is then escalated to product support in Germany. Many times we submit the ticket and the support desk asks us the same questions back where they should already have this information.

Incentivized

Celonis has a lot of tools to support the implementation.

The major reason to choose Celonis is that it has enhanced decision-making in filtering the candidates. The frontend designer has nice graphics and has well-designed self-service. I particularly enjoy the visual editor, which allows you to create complicated PQL without having to write any code, as well as the numerous filtering choices, including process mining options.

Incentivized

• Celonis thus far (and I do not anticipate anything changing) has not had a negative impact on our business. It has challenged us to think differently about what is possible and jumpstarted process improvement aimed at saving both money and time while improving the morale of our end users. Celonis has also provided us with enough data to be to develop targeted business objectives on system usage and timeliness which without them was nearly impossible to measure let alone act upon
• Better order processing (quicker, more system driven, and saves money)
• Reduction in throughput time (our order fulfillment time has improved and our order processing time has decreased)
• Finds and acts on automation opportunities
• Can find large dollar value opportunities for process improvement
• Can find data driven recommendations for executive interactions