From One Pushed Car to the FTSE 100: The Incredible Rise of Celonis 🚗💨

Dear Community, 

Every now and then, it’s amazing to take a step back and look at how far we’ve all come together. A recent feature article by City AM pulled back the curtain on the Celonis journey, sharing a legendary story from our early days that perfectly captures our spirit.

Back when our co-founders were university students, they were so scrappy they shared a single car to visit clients, and sometimes, they literally had to push that car up the hill just to get to their meetings! Fast forward fifteen years, and that same student-built company is valued at over $13 billion, standing proud as one of Europe's most valuable private tech giants. Talk about an uphill climb that paid off!

Winning Over the UK Market 🇬🇧

While Celonis has long been a household name in Germany, our reach across the UK is skyrocketing:

• Top Global Market: The UK has officially become one of our top three largest markets worldwide.
• FTSE 100 Adoption: Celonis has quietly but powerfully won over more than 20% of the FTSE 100!
• Massive Value Delivered: From pharmaceutical leaders like AstraZeneca to fashion giants like ASOS, we have already delivered an incredible $1.5 billion in value to UK customers.
• Public Sector Impact: We are working closely with the UK Cabinet Office and the NHS to tackle heavy, complex bottlenecks, like shortening a security clearance process that used to leave a staggering nine-month gap between a job offer and a recruit's start date.

The Reality of Modern Processes 🧩

Executives often assume they know how work moves through their business, but process intelligence reveals reality:

• Data Mountains: Enterprise systems generate massive amounts of data across scattered platforms like SAP, Salesforce, and Microsoft Outlook.
• The AI Foundation: You can’t optimize a process with AI if you don’t understand how that process actually works in the real world.
• Platform Agnostic: By integrating smoothly with Microsoft, AWS, Databricks, and OpenAI, Celonis ensures businesses can see everything clearly without being locked into a single ecosystem.

The Next Frontier: 40% and Beyond! 🚀

Our community is already over 3,200 strong in trained professionals through our academy programmes in the UK alone, and we are just getting started. Looking ahead, Karia notes that our footprint in the FTSE 100 has plenty of room to scale: "I feel that could at least be 40%."

None of this would be possible without you: the analysts, center-of-excellence leaders, and process pioneers who champion this operational transparency every single day!

🗣️ Let’s Chat!

What’s your favorite "scrappy startup" moment from your own career, or a major process bottleneck you've successfully unblocked? What are your thoughts on the massive boom in process intelligence?

Drop your experiences, thoughts, and high-fives in the comments below! 👇🎉

👉 Read the full story over at City AM!