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The Evolution of Celonis and Process Intelligence

In 2011, three students from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Munich—Alexander Rinke, Martin Klenk, and Bastian Nominacher—transformed a university project into what is now Celonis, a global leader in enterprise software.

Their journey first began in 2010 when they tackled a project for Bayerischer Rundfunk, a leading Bavarian broadcast company, to improve IT service response times. Traditional optimization methods proved inefficient, so they turned to an innovative solution: process mining.

Using an academic concept developed by Dutch professor Dr. Wil van der Aalst, they created an algorithm to uncover inefficiencies that significantly reduced Bayerischer Rundfunk's troubleshooting time from five days to just one day. This success laid the foundation for Celonis.

Bootstrapping their venture in the first five years, the trio found creative ways to grow their business. Rinke famously sent over 1,500 handwritten letters to leading business executives, generating valuable sales leads. Celonis has since expanded rapidly, with dual headquarters in Munich and New York. Today, the company serves over 1,500 companies, including more than a third of the Fortune Global 500.

Celonis is recognized for introducing a number of groundbreaking innovations such as Object-Centric Process Mining (OCPM), before evolving into a Process Intelligence Platform. With its mission to optimize processes for people, companies, and the planet, Celonis continues to shape the future of enterprise software.

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A world where processes work

Our mission is to make processes work for people, companies and the planet.

The Celonis Process Intelligence Platform uses process mining and augments it with business context to give companies a living digital twin of their business operation. It's system-agnostic and without bias. Companies get a common language for understanding and improving how their business runs, connecting them to their processes, their teams to each other, and emerging technologies to their business. Their people can collaborate to optimize their business processes. Every process, in every industry — thanks to our thriving ecosystem, building solutions every day. Finally, processes scale to the level of their ambition, and together we can all drive the results we know are possible.

There is no Enterprise AI without Process Intelligence

While AI has created a lot of excitement through consumer use cases, there is a huge opportunity to make AI effective at scale for the enterprise. We believe that process intelligence is essential to any enterprise AI strategy because it gives AI the context it needs to understand how businesses operate. Celonis is uniquely positioned to address this need with our Process Intelligence Graph, which captures how processes operate, their ideal workflows, and key organizational metrics. This proprietary data framework combines insights from process mining, process modeling, and customer implementations, offering unmatched contextual understanding tailored to each company.

By integrating foundational language models (LLMs) with the Process Intelligence Graph, Celonis enables enterprise AI to deliver personalized recommendations, automation, and meaningful insights. In 2024, the company initiated this integration by launching tools such as copilots and an AI Annotation Builder. These solutions enrich the Graph with data classifications and recommendations, allowing businesses to build custom AI assistants for their unique use cases.

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The Celonis Way

At Celonis we're helping companies change the way they work, so we can all do our part to ensure a better future for all. Our values ​​help us get there, guiding and inspiring us in everything we do

1. We live for customer value
2. The best team wins
3. We own it
4. Earth is our future

For all our work we apply our FISA operating principle: We Focus. We Invent. We simplify. We Act. That's the Celonis Way.

What we truly believe

At Celonis we truly believe that the best team wins - this is one of our most important company values. In our opinion, the best team needs to be a diverse one because the uniqueness of every individual is what makes us successful as a whole team. We celebrate multiple approaches and points of view that is why we nurture a collaborative culture where everyone has a voice and is encouraged to speak. We believe diversity drives innovation. So, difference is highly valued. In our Code of Conduct our Co-CEO Bastian Nominacher clearly states that the diversity of Celonis employees is a tremendous asset to Celonis. We are committed to providing equal opportunity in all aspects of employment. Our policy is firm in that we treat all applicants and employees without regard to protected categories such as: age, race, creed, color, religion, origin, gender, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability or any other protected classification.

Have a look at our Diversity Statement.