Celonis Reviews

One main use case is to see change in price, why the change in price is happening? What are the plans associated with it? What can be done in the action engine? You have smart price detection. Based upon the smart price detection, it'll give you three options. Either you update the price in the master data, or you notify the procurement user accordingly.

We used to draw errors to be processed manually, and now you can actually get the digital information directly with the help of Celonis. That is a valuable feature that customers appreciate, as well as the throughput time, the time between two activities. Earlier, it was difficult for them to actually find out what was the time between two activities. But through Celonis, they can find that out.

A major room for improvement would be on the data connection trend, because we were trying to do a POC with a client that had multiple data systems, multiple ERPs. When we contact Celonis, we either get a very generic response or a very delayed response. Celonis will ask for some 86 different tables, as an example. They ask us to get the data for 86 different tables. When I'm doing a proof of concept, if I tell the client that I need 86 different tables, the client going to refuse and not even interact with me. There should be minimum tables, the eight or ten tables which you can use to do at least a minimum proof of concept.

I've been working with the solution for eight months.

The stability of the solution is good.

The scalability of the solution is good.

The technical support is very bad. Specifically, my answer is more biased towards the data point, the data connection. We hardly get any support for connecting the data.

The initial setup is complex. The proof of concept itself, connecting the data, finding out what tables are required, that itself is still unclear.

In the training also, they just talk about the SAP data tables. However, when we ask Celonis, they give us 86 different tables. They should be more specific as to phase wise. Phase one, you can start with these eight tables. Phase two, you can start with these eight tables. They should go step by step rather than asking for the entire universe of data.

There are multiple phases of implementation. One is the discovery phase and second is the enhance phase. We have been mostly involved in the discovery phase early. For that, I think 12 weeks would be a good estimate of timeframe. The major time goes in connecting the data only. Four to six weeks goes in just connecting the data.

My advice to anyone considering this solution is focus on the data part, focus on what the connectors are, which data tables are required, and get Celonis to give you exactly what is required page wise, rather than asking for 100 different tables. The clarity needs to be there.

I would rate the solution a seven out of ten.

We have been using it for process optimization. We use it for our procure-to-pay (P2P) process and accounts payable process. 

It is a complete cloud solution. It is hosted on Celonis Cloud, and we just get an instance of the solution. We are using its latest version.

We are trying to optimize all of our organizational processes with this solution. It gives full visibility of how a process is run end to end.

It has a strong capability for hosting a lot of data. It is quite robust. 

Automated root cause analysis and process explorer features are very good. It provides a lot of selections, such as process flow selection, attribute selection, etc.

Their communication related to the product roadmap should be improved. From a customer's point of view, they should communicate more about their product roadmap.

The way they manage the data should also be improved. There is a lot of room for improvement there because a lot of duplicated data gets created, which should be improved. There should be ease of data management and code management. 

Their support can also be improved. There is a lot of back and forth communication exchange with their service desk. I see a bit of improvement there.

I have been using this solution for two and a half years. I have been using it extensively during these years.

It is stable.

It is scalable.

In terms of its users, it is not being used by a lot of end-users in our organization. It is being used by IT solution experts and business process owners. We do have plans of increasing its usage. There will be similar people using the tool, but it will be expanded to other processes of the organization.

I have mixed feedback about their support. They are quick, but sometimes, there is a lot of exchange of questions back and forth. We also have some direct contacts through our customer success manager, and with their support, we are able to get the right technical support, but their service desk takes time. 

We didn't use any other solution previously.

From a product point of view, it was straightforward, but we had to undergo a lot of internal processes, which took time. It took about three months, but most of it was more from an internal process or governance point of view.

We consulted Celonis. Our experience with them was good. Being the vendor, they, of course, have very strong knowledge. They have very strong consultants.

I'm managing it, and I have two people reporting to me. So, we have two to three people for deployment at a given time. In the future, we'll have to expand.

We didn't evaluate other options. This was our first choice. It was a top-down directive.

They are bringing in many new features. One of the new features they have is Action Flows. It is a good feature, but we are yet to explore it extensively. We have an understanding of it, but we are yet to put it into full use. They are also working a lot on extending their process connectors. The way they're extending their process connectors is very beneficial.

It is a strong solution. My advice would be to get it implemented in strong collaboration with the solution experts. Whatever process you are working with, you should onboard the solution experts of that process because, without that, you may not get the correct results. The tool is capable, but you need to put people with the right knowledge on it.

When we started using the tool, we found a lot of cases where a certain type of non-compliance was highlighted, which is not the fault of the tool. With direct knowledge of the people or the solution experts, we understood that few cases are normal and few cases are not normal. So, you need to understand what is normal and what is not normal from solution experts. 

I would rate it an eight out of 10.

The most common use case for Celonis involves its ERP applications, notably for SAP and Oracle, particularly for procure-to-pay and order-to-cash processes. 

Clients use Celonis to process mined data created on SAP or Oracle and gain insights into process executions.

Celonis primarily helps with process discovery by understanding process variations and identifying opportunities for improvement. 

Although it is not utilized much for continuous monitoring, it has significantly enhanced our understanding of improvement opportunities.

The most effective feature of Celonis is its capacity to analyze processes and uncover optimization opportunities through its visualizations of process variances.

Celonis does not provide a detailed picture of user activities within processes because it relies on event logs from ERP systems. It offers only a process view without task mining capabilities. Expanding into task mining could offer greater insights.

I have approximately four years of experience working with Celonis.

The stability of Celonis is impressive. I would rate it as an eight on a scale from one to ten.

Celonis has high scalability, which I would rate as an eight on a scale from one to ten.

I find the technical support from Celonis to be of high quality, rating it a nine out of ten.

Positive

The initial setup of Celonis is relatively straightforward. The setup process is crucial, and with good quality data, Celonis is an easy product to use.

The return on investment from Celonis comes from identifying opportunities for process improvement which translate into time savings and cost savings.

Pricing varies depending on client needs and deployment scale. However, I find it competitively priced and offering good value for money in high-volume data analysis scenarios.

Celonis is recommended due to its proficient ease of use, rapid insight discovery, ability to execute on insights, and effective impact measurement.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

I use the solution to deal with API processes, to understand business flows, and end-to-end processes.

The most valuable features of the solution are Celonis Process Explorer and Variant Explorer, which allow users to see all the digital footprints related to processes.

With Celonis, the way to use the product is one of the main difficulties users face in our company. In our company, we use Celonis for analysis, KPIs, and dashboards, and though the creation of new views is not too difficult for me, I cannot use all the luxurious things that we use in Celonis in our company while dealing with the analysis part. In general, the tool is easy to use, but our company doesn't get the luxury of using all the components in the analysis area of the product.

I have been using Celonis for a year. My company has a partnership with Celonis.

In terms of scalability, Celonis has more potential than Tableau and Power BI. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten. Celonis is a wonderful tool, so you cannot find any drawbacks at the right moment.

My company connects daily with Celonis' technical support team. Celonis' technical support team is very supportive, and our company can reach out directly to the support team if we have any queries.

Within a day or two, the technical support team of Celonis solves our company's issues.

I rate Celonis' technical support team a seven out of ten.

Neutral

In Celonis, when our company has all the configuration permissions, then the initial setup phase becomes easy, especially when we want to connect to their source system. Otherwise, users can use Slack to deal with the product's initial setup phase, which is an easy process. The source system makes documentation available in Celonis, so it is not difficult for anybody to deal with the product's setup phase.

The solution is deployed on the cloud, and if you don't want to connect to the systems, then it can always provide the data in a flash file.

Celonis doesn't need users to follow a deployment process since one has to just give users access to Celonis EMS to users so that they can see the process flow. There are no deployment issues in Celonis, and once any model is built with the product, our company has to provide training to the client on how to use all the dashboards and KPIs with Celonis Process Explorer and Variant Explorer.

Though Celonis is a bit pricey, it is worth it.

I suggest that others who plan to use the solution first use Celonis Academy Training.

With Celonis, my company builds apps and publishes them in marketplaces, and if anybody wants to use a particular app, then our company builds it for them, after which they can download it or purchase it from us.

I rate the overall tool a nine out of ten.

Celonis works with Camunda to identify any issues or loopholes in the process. 

It is used for loans and online credit, and it was more theoretical, based on data, and not real in other circumstances.

In my opinion, it's quite an advanced tool.

The pricing policy is not affordable in Ukraine. For example, in Kazakhstan, we have some negotiations with Azerbaijan country. Telecom is one of the biggest telecom companies in Kazakhstan, but this was a little bit expensive for them.

Now, I think they decided to postpone it because of the price policy.

We could start several projects, and we already have clients that are interested, but the only concern was pricing.

You only need processes to return the money. You need process, you already have the process, but say you need to return $50,000 or $100,000 every month.

However, in the areas where we work, meeting such a high standard is quite challenging.

For example, online loans. It's most likely an interesting case. However, with others, such as finances, some efficient method to make it efficient and return on money is rather challenging. Make it more than efficient.

I have been working with Celonis for one year.

We began communicating with our manager in Celonis. We were provided with presentations on how it works and practical experience with some processes.

Celonis is a stable solution.

Celonis is a scalable solution.

We tried using telecom data, but it didn't work very well. One of the biggest is undoubtedly telecom, but necessarily the biggest. 

They have the largest data warehouses and the largest amounts of customer information, data, or metadata. 

It works even though it doesn't map. Work it is. If telecom is involved in a large country, any issues might likely be resolved via other businesses.

We have three developers who are working with Celonis. 

We had expectations of of growing, but, we decided to postpone these projects or end our relationship with Celonis if the pricing and model are no longer affordable. 

It really changed three or four months ago. And it's no longer a low price.

I have not contacted technical support. My colleagues have, but I don't have any feedback from them.

I work for an integration company. It is an IT firm in Ukraine, and we are now considering becoming a partner with MaintainX. And we've worked with Bizagi previously, before the conflict. 

We are going public with Bizagi, but our clients have postponed these actions for various reasons.

Now we are thinking about Nintex or Nintex K2, whether it's an on-premises, off-premises, or cloud solution.

I don't have much experience as a project manager with One Bank working with Camunda, but I'm not sure if Camunda is a suitable choice for us to partner in Ukraine or another country, because we're currently concentrating on countries other than Ukraine, such as Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, and Romania. 

We have projects in the Benelux countries. And clients frequently inquire about BPM solutions, and we have a process with Nintex.

K2, as you are aware, is comparable to Nintex, however, it is an on-premise solution.

I have experience in Camunda yes, as the head of the project management office. I'm not responsible directly, but mainly about choosing a solution or choosing the partnership.

Before I was focusing on development. A solution for the bank in Ukraine. 

We are a partner with UiPath. 

Now, we have focused on more ERP. Process management is on pause now. 

Now, we start to think about VPN solutions to add to our portfolio, for the clients.

I am familiar with UiPath Process Mining. I don't have a lot of experience with it, just in a few projects. However, I have received feedback from developers.

When compared to Celonis, it has very basic functions.

The initial setup is not an issue. I am the head of the PMO. I am not personally responsible for it or using its use, but from what I know from my colleagues it was not difficult. 

It already has connections, and it could be integrated with various databases, or from Excel to SAP and others; it works well with this.

We completed the deployment ourselves. We have developers, and for us, it is part of our daily work.

We already have a Celonis account that we can use to demonstrate to clients. We could use it in some circumstances, but because we are partners and have a partnership with Celonis, we could use it for free.

We looked into the possibility of using UiPath Process Mining, but from my point of view, or from our discussion, which was around a year ago, it's not adequate for companies like telecom or banks.

It is a matter of connectivity. And while we are completely satisfied with UiPath as an ERP solution, I remember that process mining was not as advanced or as good as we thought. 

For complex users, such as our client, it was most important how easy it is to understand the process, how the graphs are clear for them, how they can adjust it, and how many have your products, such as EMC. 

For example, suppose you intend to optimize a process. Celonis is far better in this instance.

I would recommend this solution to others who are interested in using it.

It's also quite simple to use, which is a great benefit. It's also a no-code or low-code option. Some other solutions chose to be no code or minimal code, but they were not.

The downside is, of course, the pricing. It is only affordable for large or public companies.

For usability and how it works, I would rate it a nine, but because of the pricing, I would rate Celonis an eight out of ten.

We primarily use the solution for process mining. 

I've installed various Celonis agents. We are disconnected from the Celonis cloud and doing real-time replication of the tables.

There is good business process intelligence to be explored. 

It is easy to use. The product offers easy configurations.

The real-time replication was just implemented and is quite useful.

There are business process reports that can be leveraged. 

It's a good product. It extracts the customer business process, and it identifies all the issues in the current business processes. Issues are visible in the dashboard, and they can start working on improving those business processes based on what they see there.

It's scalable.

The solution is now stable.

The solution can be a bit expensive.

The company has been using the solution for more than two years. 

We use a small agent on our landscape. When I initially install this agent, I didn't dedicate or allocate a separate server. I already have some other server that has small agents. I tried to use the same agent and the same server to install this agent. However, when we started doing real-time replication, that's when we saw some hiccups in ICPO usage, and we ended up installing it on a separate dedicated server.

This likely was not due to the Celonis. We already had some other processes and agents running on the same server and Celonis reported there are latency issues. That's when we made a decision to write code and allocate a separate server for Celonis and it has worked fine.

I cannot reuse the same Celonis agent for all kinds of Celonis features. It has to be a separate agent. There are Celonis automation and Celonis data extraction - two different agents. We cannot have one agent accommodating both of them. Initially, we started with Celonis automation, and later we end up installing Celonisdata extraction for real-time replication. It can scale well. 

The initial setup is simple, and it is easy to configure. It takes less than one hour to configure to Celonis cloud and hand over the system to business process experts, and they can start extracting the data.

I'm not sure of the exact licensing cost.

I've also looked into SAP.

We are Celonis partners. 

I've seen Celonis actively used by many other customers. I'd rate it eight out of ten.

We are currently using this solution for our P2P and O2C processes, as well as for the audit and conformance functions that the product provides.

The analyst role within this solution is very good; it provides a transaction dashboard, and KPI module, that are completely customizable.

We would like this solution to be more flexible in how it interacts with other cloud-based database solutions, so that we can operate more seamlessly.

We would also like the data compression element of the solution to be improved.  This would allow us to be more efficient with our data storage.

We have found the solution to be stable.

We have found that the solution is only scalable if an organization runs particular types of software.

We have found the customer support to be very good.

The initial setup was straightforward, but the deployment took 14 weeks from end to end due to the extent of our integration needs.

We would advise companies to consider the software that this solution would need to integrate with before implementing the product, as this could make the implementation process a lot more complex.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

The most valuable feature of this solution is the PTS service.

Once you have completed the analytics and deployed it on an ongoing basis, it will continue to provide the KPIs, dashboards, and whatnot. As we work on projects, we track what improvements are occurring, which is the most important part. Not so much the action flows.

Celonis is the market leader, but I believe it is not truly Celonis, it is all about the transaction logs.

Nothing comes to mind in terms of improvement. I believe they are pretty much convinced, and they do a good job at it, nothing comes to mind that they should improve on. 

In my opinion, because Celonis is not automated, this is something that should be considered. They will, I believe, be required to do so in the future. They can have the best possible part and potentially an automation solution if they do the scripting. However, it is not an automation tool; rather, it is a process mining solution. They're doing process mining, so they might as well do automation.

Celonis should develop their machine learning. That is an area that could improve.

Celonis should have the ability to automate in the next release, in my opinion.

The price could be scaled down a bit to be cheaper.

I have been working with Celonis for more than one year.

Celonis is a stable solution.

I believe this is due to how easy it is to locate the transaction log on a single system. And if you can find more and more businesses. If more of the process is on ERT, scaling is simple. 

The scale is determined by the number of tables required, whether SAP or Oracle. However, I believe that processes in real life do not exist solely in one system. It's not just on the system of record; there are other add-ons and all, and that's where the integration needs to take place.

We assist our clients with deployment. There are approximately 5,000 or more regular users.

We have no prior experience with technical support.

I believe that is where the majority of the effort should be directed because garbage in, garbage out. One must cleanse the data, which I believe is true for any process mining. Because all of the businesses will lack the necessary tables. I believe that requires effort.

It's straightforward, but that's the point. That is where one must focus the most. Because if you set up tables incorrectly, everything else will be incorrect.

Celonis is expensive, but it is functional.

I would rate it a three out of five.

My technical team has evaluated Microsoft and UiPath, but right now we are heavily partnering with Celonis.

It's a useful tool, and I would recommend it to others who are interested in using it.

I would rate Celonis a nine out of ten.