Process Transparency: Celonis Improves Business Insights – SiliconANGLE News

Celonis SE is on a mission to create a new level of shared process transparency within and between companies.

On Wednesday, the process mining and intelligence firm unveiled Celonis Networks, where businesses can exchange information about their shared processes. The news caught the attention of one SiliconANGLE research analyst who was reminded of something similar nearly 30 years ago.

TheCUBE’s George Gilbert, Rob Stretchay and Savannah Peterson talk about process transparency at Celosphere 24.

“It’s like when SAP was starting to take off in the US in the early 1990s,” said George Gilbert (pictured left), CUBE’s principal research analyst. “The dream was that we would standardize wall-to-wall in one application so you could see everything that’s going on in the enterprise, and we all know that hasn’t happened. Celonis’ value proposition is that we can build a single source of truth across these islands of automation and data and then create a map of the business as it currently operates. Then analyze how to transform this into a more ideal state. This is a very high value business proposition.”

Gilbert talks with Rob Strechay (center) and Savannah Peterson (right) of theCUBE Research at Celosphere 24, during a discussion of the conference’s opening day announcements in an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s live streaming studio. They discussed the transparency of the process and key lessons from the daily news and interviews on theCUBE. (* Disclosure below.)

Process Transparency: Implementing AI Agents

Celonis also announced AgentC, a suite of AI agent tools, integrations and partnerships powered by the company’s Process Intelligence platform. News from Celonis highlighted the growing influence of AI agent technology in enterprise operations.

“There are silos of AI and silos of data under AI, and I think the Celonis message is about being able to move past that,” Strechay said. “They know the process of what the agent needs to do. For me, that’s always been missing when we have these conversations with agents.

By eliminating silos and mapping the business, Celonis aims to improve a number of core processes used to run a business. That includes making more efficient use of the supply chain, according to Peterson.

“In the old days, the supply chain was like a game of telephone, one person picks up the phone and says something to the other,” Peterson said. “What’s really interesting about Celonis, and what I’m dialing here, is not only are they eliminating that phone game, they’re harmonizing it as a choir. Everyone who participates in this harmony speaks the same language and that is the big difference.

At the heart of the Celonis platform is the Process Intelligence Graph, the connective tissue that helps users understand how objects and events interact. This will have a democratizing effect on how apps are built, according to Gilbert.

“Let’s say if you want to build an application that works with SAP data, you have to navigate 50,000 tables of three-letter German acronyms,” he explained. “Whereas in a process intelligence graph, a citizen developer can essentially take from a visual gallery these elements and build something that’s not just a dashboard, but can have action buttons that then operationalize decisions. It’s a complete game changer because now app development is moving that into the business.”

Here’s the full video analysis, part of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE Research’s Celosphere 24 coverage:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Celosphere 24. Neither Celonis SE, the sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor any other sponsors have editorial control over theCUBE or SiliconANGLE’s content.)

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