Celonis is a process mining company founded in 2011 by Alexander Rinke, Bastian Nominacher, and Martin Klenk as a spin-off from the Technical University of Munich. Headquartered jointly in Munich and New York, Celonis pioneered the process mining category and has grown into one of the most highly valued enterprise software companies in Europe.
The platform ingests event log data from ERP and business systems including SAP, Salesforce, and Oracle, reconstructs the actual sequence of steps a process followed, and compares that reconstruction against the intended workflow to surface bottlenecks, rework loops, and compliance gaps. Its Process Intelligence Graph layers AI-driven recommendations and automated actions on top of the mined process data, moving the product from visualization toward closed-loop process optimization.
Celonis targets large enterprises with complex, high-volume processes in finance, supply chain, procurement, and order management, where visibility into deviations translates into measurable cost recovery. Pricing is sales-driven with no published list price; industry estimates place entry-level enterprise packages at $150,000 or more annually before implementation and services, though the company has at times run a limited-data free evaluation tier for proof-of-concept work.
