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What is Celonis?

Celonis is a Process Intelligence platform that helps companies improve their operations, customer experience, and sustainability. The company’s technology provides a digital twin of a company’s processes, giving everyone in the organization a common language and the ability to identify…

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Process Mining

Process mining tools assist companies in combining data science and process management.

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What is Celonis?

Celonis provides organizations across industries with real-time process observability – capturing every movement of every in-flight process end-to-end across the enterprise, going beyond just static transparency into what’s happening in its processes. The intelligence Celonis provides is used to orchestrate processes: providing decision support for the right actions, triggering individual workflows or process steps based on intelligent process insights, and feeding into other technologies in place to make them more effective.


The Celonis Process Intelligence Platform takes data from an organization's systems - from an ERP and CRM to Excel – and uses process mining technology to turn that data into a living, system-agnostic digital twin of its end-to-end processes. It then makes sense of that data by using specialized process improvement knowledge, built up from thousands of implementations over the last decade, and AI algorithms to uncover where value is hiding in these processes. Then, Celonis offers tools to enable it to be captured — by empowering the organization's employees with insights, and by helping users to deploy technologies like AI and automation to improve these processes.


Celonis is headquartered in Munich, Germany, and New York City, USA with more than 20 offices worldwide.

Celonis Features

Process Mining Features

  • Supported: Data Connection
  • Supported: Process Discovery
  • Supported: Visual Process Representation
  • Supported: Process Variants
  • Supported: Performance Metrics
  • Supported: Process Mining Algorithms
  • Supported: Root Cause Investigation
  • Supported: Process Optimization
  • Supported: What-if Analysis
  • Supported: Process Compliance and Audit

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What is Process Mining?

Celonis Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesEnglish, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Russian.

Frequently Asked Questions

Celonis is a Process Intelligence platform that helps companies improve their operations, customer experience, and sustainability. The company’s technology provides a digital twin of a company’s processes, giving everyone in the organization a common language and the ability to identify and capture value.

UiPath Process Mining, Minit, and Kofax Insight are common alternatives for Celonis.

Reviewers rate Process Discovery and Process Mining Algorithms highest, with a score of 7.9.

The most common users of Celonis are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Training Effectiveness: Users have commended the training resources available on the Academy for their effectiveness in guiding them through the implementation process with clarity and precision. The support provided has been instrumental in promptly addressing user queries and challenges, ensuring a smooth transition to using the tool.

Data Visualization Utility: The data visualization feature has received high praise for its intuitive interface that allows users to easily navigate and analyze complex data sets. By offering automation possibilities, users can streamline tasks efficiently, saving time and enhancing overall productivity.

Support Value: Customers have expressed deep appreciation for the substantial value derived from the robust support services offered. From optimizing tool utilization to providing valuable insights into best practices, the support team has played a crucial role in helping users achieve significant business improvements and operational efficiencies.

Difficulty in Data Exploration and Connectivity: Users have encountered challenges when exploring data and connecting to on-premise applications, impacting their workflow efficiency. Some users have mentioned that the lack of seamless integration with existing systems has hindered their ability to leverage the full potential of the software.

Insufficient Features Offering: Some users have expressed dissatisfaction with the lack of features, including limited components for views and inadequate user role customization options. This limitation has restricted users from tailoring the platform to meet specific business needs effectively.

Challenging Implementation Process: Several reviewers found the software implementation process daunting, particularly due to the complexity that often requires technical support. Users highlighted instances where they faced hurdles while setting up the software, leading to delays in leveraging its functionalities efficiently.

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Celonis review

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 02, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Celonis
2 years of experience
We are using Celonis in order to get deeper insights for our processes.
We try to get a better understanding of our processes based on actual data and application logs and not on assumptions and estimations.
The ultimate purpose of this is to identify potential issues or bottlenecks, improve our processes and find proper automation candidates.
  • Data extraction mechanism
  • Drill down possibilities
  • Process analysis
Celonis is a very strong tool for cases where you try to identify deviations of the standard process path. It also helps identify correlations between different aspects that influence these deviations. Moreover, it allows you the possibility to trigger automations from within Celonis platform triggered by pre-defined conditions. On the other hand it is not the most suitable tool to try and build really complex visualizations.

Process mining market leader

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 30, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Celonis
6 years of experience
As process mining Come member, I’m promoting Celonis to my business users. My use cases are in the area of customer support and sales.
  • Data visualization
  • Easy to use
  • Automation possibility
If you want to find the insight of a process, Celonis process mining is a good tool. However if you want to see only KPI dashboards, then I think for reporting there are better ones in the market.

P2P experience with Celonis

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 30, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Celonis
4 years of experience
We use it to analyse and optimize our P2P process. With that, we get the right insights for process improvements. Besides that, with the intelligence we also generate messages to our users to prevent making mistakes. So we have less rework an higher first time rights. It gives rest in the process and creates extra time to spend on qualitative more important tasks.
  • Support in using it
  • Give best practice insights
  • Search for business value
You can use it in many processes, if the (meta) data is well available. I see not much limits.

Celonis Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 29, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Celonis
3 years of experience
At this moment we use Celonis more in an ad hoc way. <br>Confirm assumptions, identify if we have bottlenecks in a specific process, measure lead time. <br>In the past we used Celonis to track "delayed" goods receipts by informing users via a mail notification (not via Celonis as our "users" don't have the acces to the system). <br>
  • Standard apps
  • KPI display
  • Process analytics
Well suited for change scenario's and rework scenario's.
Happy flow identification.

Honest Review: Celonis Delivers Above Average Performance.

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 28, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Celonis
4 years of experience
Celonis monitors open orders in procurement and order management, identifying inefficiencies in the supply chain, particularly regarding stock levels and material range. It aids in pinpointing bottlenecks, enabling proactive problem-solving. Additionally, it measures performance in logistic processes, providing insights to optimize operations, reduce costs, and improve service delivery. Thus, Celonis serves as a critical tool for enhancing operational efficiency and effectiveness in supply chain and logistics management.
  • Data handling.
  • Simplicity in design.
  • Front-end speed.
It is well suited for analyzing historical data and drilling down on data sets to find root causes of inefficiencies. Collaborating with other colleagues by using comments and tasks is also good. Action Flows also help automate repetitive tasks. Celonis is less appropriate for raw data provision and rebuilding SAP transactions.

A great tool to build a data-driven company

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 28, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Celonis
1 year of experience
We use Celonis in order to analyze supply chain processes and to find action to reduce inefficiencies. Since the supply chain is particularly complex, having data driven analysis based on process digital twins enable the possibility of more effective and fast actions.
  • Analyze complex processes integrating heterogeneous and multiple applications
  • Enable data-driven actions
  • Visualize process deviations
Celonis is best to be used on IT landscape which are stable, and it gets the most of benefits when processes are fragmented into different systems and hence more difficult to monitor/optimize.

Celonis is a gamechanger in process optimization

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 28, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Celonis
1 year of experience
The scope of our use case with Celonis involves five core processes across three companies. Currently, we have process management and optimization teams but struggle to prioritize and sometimes to cooperate across silos. We want to leverage Process Mining, especially OCPM, to find the real bottlenecks and problems within our processes and departments.
  • Training on the Academy
  • Guiding through the implementation process
  • Availability for questions and problems
  • Providing insights and ideas
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.

Celonis is a must have for Process Intelligence

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 28, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Celonis
5 years of experience
Celonis is widely used across our organization in several business areas for Process Mining and Process Intelligence Use Cases. We have established our own CoE a few year ago to serve as first point of contact to our business users. Within the CoE we develop new Use Cases mainly in the core business areas Procurement, Sales, Finance and Production not only from an analytical but also from a highly operational perspective.
  • Gain transparency to your as-is processes
  • Visualize process steps and variants to identify root-causes
  • Aggregate data for operational purposes and automate tasks
Celonis is very powerful in analyzing process data and process KPIs. It offers possibilities to set up and schedule the data pipeline to update data in near real-time (depending on the Use Case) to make it accessible for operational Use Cases. It can then be linked to automated workflows (Action Flows) by manual or actionable triggers. In a nutshell it can be applied highly aggregated for top management or very detailed for the shopfloor.

Celonis has by far improved our HR experience and data maintenance

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 28, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Celonis
2 years of experience
Analyzing HR Service processes/x-raying ServiceNow. We have built a global tool that for the first time allows HR service centers to map their processes and additionally benchmark against their fellows. We aim at identifying already in place best practices and sharing them across our global organization. Furthermore, we hope to support in identifying process deficiencies.
  • Data model structurization and enhancing
  • Definition and implementation of activities
  • Performance
So far the most performant tool to handle and interpret large amounts of data.
We have other tools in place like PowerBI and Tableau but none of them are so performant and flexible and allow for on-the-fly data interpretation.
Addition new data sources is easy and efficient as well, and as long as tools are built up a standard way, you can get a real head start with the starter kits

Celonis - a great and powerful tool for hr processes

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 28, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Celonis
4 years of experience
Celonis is our provider for getting insights into processes. We use it to analyze our business process to discover, analyze and improve our HR and finance processes for the global organisation. With the use of Celonis we are able to get architects of our own service processes. The management uses Celonis to decide and act on business critical events.
  • User experience
  • easy implementation
  • quick time to delivery
  • great customer support
To get quick insights in business processes Celonis is a great tool. It helps to get us quick data based insights. We use it for ticketing, payroll processes and t&e processes. From the simple clerk to top management everyone can access data to evaluate business decisions. Therefore everyone should use Celonis in your organisation,

High performing methodology to build economic value addressing inefficiencies with Celonis

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 20, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Celonis
7 years of experience
We use Celonis to help our clients detecting inefficiencies that can be addressed, in order to generate economic value
  • 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
Celonis is perfect for all the core processes. It is perfect to show how to generate economic value. There is no evident weakness from my point of view.

Celonis's implementation as great

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 20, 2024
AK
Vetted Review
Verified User
Celonis
2 years of experience
Our organization has several streams for the Celonis implementation, from the procure-to-pay process to the HR process. As an internal audit department, we use Celonis for audit purposes, particularly for the verification of double payments and the maverick buying for the AFC Process. Business problems are managing the big data stored in our application systems more efficiently.
  • mapping of processes starting from data
  • automatically extracts some Key Control Indicators
  • automatic data analysis
I feel that the Celonis team should study the best cases to be applied as a starting point of cooperation (quick win points) and explain the opportunities the suite can offer to maximize the advantages gained from applying Celonis to day-to-day operations or monitoring purposes.

Celonis is good for discovering the actual processes and what type of variants one can find.

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 20, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Celonis
3 years of experience
I use Celonis to improve financial and accounting processes in our organization; we are using it to find bottlenecks that impair automation in our processes. By using Celonis, we can easily find the Vendors, Document types, etc, and other attributes that are affecting the processes with more manual work.
  • Process Mining
  • Process Enhancement
  • Process Discovery
Celonis is well suited for both standardized processes and unstandardized processes. For the former, Celonis is good for discovering the relevant attributes that are unstandardized or require extra attention from the team. For the latter, Celonis is good for discovering the actual processes and what type of variants one can find.

Celonis makes data actionable to increase efficiency and deliver tangible results

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 20, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Celonis
1 year of experience
We leverage the insights we receive through process mining activities with Celonis in order to implement fact based corrective action plans in order to increase process efficiency and add value to our ways of working.
  • Structured process insights
  • Clear visualisations
  • Makes data actionable
Celonis really makes data actionable and helps you quickly develop actions plans based on concrete facts and figures. One may also discover things not known before which are bottlenecks in the E2E process.

Smart platform to improve and analyze process over the company

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 20, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Celonis
3 years of experience
I am a Celonis developer. The platform helps customers to analyze processes. We are focusing on AP process.
  • Business intelligence
  • Smart apps to solve real problems in the process
  • Quick automations to improve the process
P2P/AP process analysis and improvements. They have a lot of exeperience in these processes.

Celonis offers limitless opportunities to develop new Use cases and improve our processes

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 18, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Celonis
2 years of experience
We are using Celonis for Accounts Payable, P2P, as well as for Supply Chain processes like measuring externally procured Finished Goods Lead Times and calculating accurate Safety Stock levels. I have been mainly involved in the Supply Chain use cases. Our main objective was in a first step to analyze patterns in our lead times and demand forecast. Then in a 2nd step we wanted to actively improve Master Data in our SAP ERP systems, that would help the Supply Planning teams to plan new purchase requisitions more accurately.
  • Good support with building business cases
  • Close relationship and a very engaged Celonis Account manager
  • Wide array of predeveloped Use cases, that can be deployed and customized to our specific processes and systems
  • Support in defining new business cases and opportunity to talk to Product Managers
Celonis is well suited to get an understanding of how our processes really look like. Especially the Object Centric Process Modelling will be a further significant improvement. Celonis platform is very flexible and the opportunities for new use cases are unlimited. However on the flip side, some of the Celonis pre-developed Use Cases would be more suitable to be covered third party full fledged tools, so comparisons have to be done on a case by case basis.

Celonis is a Gamechanger in the Current Marketscape

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 18, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Celonis
1 year of experience
Celonis is a wonderful application and a Game changer application in the current MarketScape, providing more capabilities in giving the process insights in almost all the end-to-end processes and helps to realize value to our company. Celonis has the latest trend analysis and applications that drive through many automations which helps us in process improvements which drive us to improve the processes and brings value and improves cost effectiveness to the Company.
  • Improve business process outcomes
  • Enhance decision making
  • Create internal/operational efficiencies
  • Cost management
  • Improve business process agility
All EMS applications, Action flows used in Automation, Create internal and operational efficiencies helps a lot and is well suited User friendly and timely support and access to the trainings for a beginner is well designed. Use of AI and latest technology adaptions must be more user specific and easily understandable to the end user and is not well suited

Celonis allows users to drill down into many dimensions

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 18, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Celonis
2 years of experience
We measure operators' performance and whether they are working for tasks they are assigned to with Celonis.
  • fast
  • flexible with data modification. (data pool can be edited directly)
  • constant development of features
Celonis is appropriate when dealing with a large amount of data and allows users to drill down into many dimensions. (Tableau is more suited for showing aggregated data.)

Transparency, new perspectives and many possibilities

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 26, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Celonis
1 year of experience
The complexity of our processes and the amount of data we work within our daily business is constantly growing. The existing solutions alone are not enough to give us insights into our processes with the necessary level of detail. Therefore, we implemented Celonis for our P2P and AP process to create transparency about our processes and KPIs. This enables us to expand our data basis and strengthen fact-based decisions.
  • quick and well-presented analysis of large amounts of data
  • see the process from start to finish (with all its variants)
  • discover unexpected potential
Celonis provides us quickly with user-friendly and very detailed information about our processes and KPIs, which we can then analyze down to the individual case. This transparency creates a basis for fact-based decision-making. However, it takes a lot of time and resources to add value.

Celonis Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 25, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Celonis
1 year of experience
We use it for a number of process reports and insights. We are in the process of creating numerous dashboards to extract KPIs in real-time rather than snapshots. We are doing this for many procure-to-pay processes to determine if we're following process or deviating as well as being able to report on our metrics.
  • Real-time data
  • Intuitive user-friendly displays
  • Straight-forward to build new reports
Real-time process mining. Excellent at visually mapping out processes

Unlocking Operational Excellence: A review of Celonis and its impact at Uniper

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 16, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Celonis
2 years of experience
Celonis is a process mining and analysis tool and we primarily use the tool within Uniper IT to help to optimise our business processes which leads to a reduction in our operating costs. By using the application, our Process Analysts are able to visualise and analyse many of our end-to-end business processes and can then identify any bottlenecks and inefficiencies. Celonis also helps us target areas where automation can be implemented in order to reduce manual effort.
  • Visualisation of Uniper's business processes
  • Makes it easier for us to demonstrate compliance during external audits
  • Drives process improvement through identifying automation opportunities and areas that can be targeted for waste reduction
The industry in which Uniper operates requires strict adherence to compliance regulations, and we need a tool to monitor and ensure compliance throughout our key business processes. Celonis helps us to visualise our process and makes it easier to demonstrate that we are compliant. Uniper also has a culture of continuous improvement and we use Celonis to measure the impact of various process enhancements (such as increased automation) over time.

Wowed in the short term, very disappointing long term

Rating: 1 out of 10
May 19, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Celonis
3 years of experience
I used Celonis to drive process efficiencies and underperformance alarms.
  • Process visualization
  • Alarms/ Notifications
  • Root cause analysis
My enthusiasm has lessened with what I feel have been disappointing sales interactions, unethical and misleading communications, and reduced support. I believe that they focused on landing an account and talking big up front, but that was not sustained, and actions were only taken to maximize their profit and not to do what I feel is right for customer success. I think you should be weary of exponential cost increases and a lack of transparency on long-term costs. Overall I wish I never did business with them.

Happy Celonis Customer

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 18, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Celonis
1 year of experience
Celonis was used in my organization to mine current processes within our ERP system and map them in the Celonis system. We did not have current documentation within our organization so this would help us (1) map our current processes and (2) use this for a future ERP implementation project.
  • Listens to all user comments
  • Takes appropriate notes and action items
  • Follows up as promised every time
  • Diversified team to help answer questions
Celonis is well suited to connect to our company's ERP system. Our current ERP system is over 35 years old and Celonis had no problems connecting and extracting information for our project. The ability to connect to a variety of applications is impressive. In addition to the software, the people really stand out. We always have productive meetings and is something you can't get at a lot of other companies.

Celonis: A very good support to improve the End to End processes

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 13, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Celonis
2 years of experience
O2C/AR/P2P/AP processes are adressed Goals: Detect unefficiencies / Create report / warning message / Action flow & Action engine used
  • End to End process analysis
  • Ease of use
  • Task automation
  • Improvement checker
  • detect inefficiencies
Good: Detecting a problem in a process and sending an alert message to remedy it. Comparison with a perfect process model & detection of violations. Easy to create tables, reports, and analyses. Easy to create RPA & any message to help users in their daily tasks
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