Product Updates

Open Credit Memo App for Accounts Payable version 1.0.1 (2023-09-26) In-app validation, configuration, and value framingThe Open Credit Memo app has a new Validation and Value Assessment view, to help you understand and validate the business logic step by step, and frame the use case’s value before you set up the app. We’ve also added two new quick filters to the Open Credit Memos tab, “Relevant Credit Memos” and “Irrelevant Credit Memos,” to filter the Action View using the scope that you define during the validation process. There’s some smaller enhancements and fixes too. When you update the app, you might see fewer credit memos than you expect, because we’ve pre-set a scope filter for you. If you want to see the full scope, go to the Settings view and remove all the restrictions. Use the validation process in the new view to define an appropriate scope filter for your business needs. For the app documentation, see Open Credit Memo App Installation.

SAP Ariba Extractor (2023-09-25) Enhancements to Catalog Content APIWe’ve added support for extracting the SupplierPartID and IsPreferredItem columns from the CatalogsItems table that’s available through the Catalog Content API. The Extractor also now automatically avoids requests for items from the CatalogsItems table where the supplier ID is unspecified, which can lead to extraction failures. See SAP Ariba Connection for the Ariba Extractor documentation. Supported API Endpoints and available Tables lists the tables and columns that you can filter.

SAP S/4HANA Process Connectors version 4.0 (2023-09-25) Data Model improvements and added featuresWe’ve upgraded the SAP S/4HANA Process Connectors for Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Purchase to Pay, and Order to Cash, to match the capability of the SAP ECC Process Connectors. The new 4.0 versions of the SAP S/4HANA Process Connectors come with improved Data Models, and they now include the Delta Transformations, Delta Data Model Load, and Replication Cockpit features. You can download the connectors from the Marketplace, and you can get the reference documentation for them using these links: Accounts Payable - SAP S/4HANA Accounts Payable Process Connector Documentation (docx)Accounts Receivable - SAP S/4HANA Accounts Receivable Process Connector Documentation (docx)Purchase to Pay - SAP S/4HANA Purchase to Pay Process Connector Documentation (docx)Order to Cash - SAP S/4HANA Order to Cash Process Connector Documentation (docx) 

JDBC Extractor version 2.86.0 (2023-09-22) Conversion, metadata, and filtering improvements We’ve enabled STRING to DATETIME conversion for BigQuery and Trino.For Oracle, we’ve improved the query for the INFORMATION_SCHEMA metadata source.The Extractor now recognizes quotes in the filter statement.We’ve made some security improvements and fixes. Your Java version must be at least Java 17 for this version of the JDBC Extractor. If you haven’t upgraded yet, follow the steps in How do I update an on-premise extractor?

Recovery codes for your Celonis ID (2023-09-21) We’ve introduced recovery codes that serve as a backup authentication method for your Celonis ID, in case you lose access to the devices you use for two-factor authentication. You can only generate recovery codes when you're logged into your Celonis EMS account, so as a safety measure you should generate them as soon as you can, because you wouldn’t be able to after losing your second authentication factor. For instructions to generate recovery codes, see Recovery codes.

SAP ECC Purchase Requisitions Process Connector (2023-09-18) Merged with SAP ECC Purchase to Pay Process Connector version 4.0Because the SAP ECC Data Model for Purchase Requisitions was nearly always used alongside the Data Model for Purchase to Pay, we’ve merged it into version 4.0 of the SAP ECC Purchase to Pay Process Connector. We’ve added the Delta Transformation and Replication Cockpit features to it, and used staging tables for a performance enhancement. (There are also some minor changes to the Purchase to Pay Data Model to improve the purchase requisition and contract recommendation information.) The standalone SAP ECC Purchase Requisitions Process Connector is now deprecated, and we won’t make any future updates to it. From now on, for new installations that need a process connector for Purchase Requisitions, install version 4.0 of the SAP ECC Purchase to Pay Process Connector instead of the standalone SAP ECC Purchase Requisitions Process Connector.

Views (2023-09-14) Save bookmarks for ViewsYou can now save bookmarks with your preferences for a View (including filters, selections, and component states), and share them with your team. Use the bookmark icon in the top right area of a View to create, share, access, and manage your bookmarks. 

Triggers (2023-09-13)Enhancements to Trigger subscriber management in Knowledge ModelThe Trigger overview page in a Knowledge Model now shows you how many subscribers each Trigger has. You can click on that field to add a new subscriber for the Trigger - either an Action Flow or (in Limited Availability) Task Type - directly from the overview page. See Triggers for their documentation.

Intelligence API version 1.14.0 (2023-09-11) New filter operandsYou can now use the operands IS, IN, CONTAINS, STARTSWITH, and ENDSWITH in filter expressions. For the filter documentation, see Intelligence API Features - Filtering.

Object-centric process mining (2023-09-08) Terminology change: “projections” to “event logs”Following feedback from our early adopters of object-centric process mining, we’re discontinuing the term “projections” for the case-centric event logs that you can create from perspectives. We’ll use the familiar term “event logs” instead from now on, so it’s easier to identify them as what you need to use with case-centric apps and views. The revised concept topic explaining perspectives and event logs is at Perspectives.

JDBC Extractor version 2.85.0 (2023-09-01) Changes for Snowflake, BigQuery, and Microsoft Windows users The JDBC Extractor now escapes wildcards in Snowflake metadata calls to improve load.We’ve made some internal upgrades to the JDBC Extractor’s libraries. If you’re linking the BigQuery driver, you’ll need to exclude all SLF4J jar files from the driver package.On Microsoft Windows, we’ve changed the JDBC Extractor’s dependency from the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package to the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable Package (x64). Install that package when you install this version of the JDBC Extractor. Your Java version must be at least Java 17 for this version of the JDBC Extractor. If you haven’t upgraded yet, follow the steps in How do I update an on-premise extractor?

Wildcards no longer require a backslash in PQL (2023-08-30) When you’re searching columns in the OLAP table or during attribute selection, and using the % (percent) and _ (underscore) characters as wildcards, you no longer need to use a backslash to escape them. If you search for text that contains the % or _ characters, you now need to prefix them with a backslash to use them literally. See ​LIKE​​ for the function documentation.

Upcoming changes to Skill availability (August 2023) From October 2, 2023, Skills that have an equivalent Action Flow module won't be available in teams by default. They'll still work in your existing apps, you just can't use them in new ones. We encourage you to use Action Flows going forward. The Skills that won’t be available by default are the Webhook sensor, and the following actions: Automation Anywhere (Agent), Blueprism (Agent), Coupa, Create Alert (Celonis), Update New Attribute (Celonis), Reload Data Model (Celonis), Firestart (Agent), Gmail, Gsheet, Gcalendar, Happyfox, Jira cloud, Jira (Agent), LeverX (Agent), Microsoft PA, Microsoft Teams, Oracle (Agent), Office 365, Salesforce, Salesforce (Sandbox), ServiceNow, Slack, SOAP, Email (SMTP), SAP (Agent), Trello, UiPath, UiPath (Agent), Workato, Webhook. Also, all the older and deprecated apps and actions that have already been de-listed won’t be available by default. If you can't move to Action Flows right now, or there's a particular Skill in this list that you rely on, contact the support team at celopeers.com/s/support.

Migrate now from Process Analytics to Studio Analysis (August 2023) Studio Analysis is replacing Process Analytics. If you’re still using Process Analytics, migrate your analyses to Studio Analysis by September 30, 2023 as explained in Migration Steps. We’re removing access to Process Analytics on or after October 31, 2023. You’re likely to have Process Analytics on your EMS team if you became a Celonis customer in April 2021 or earlier. If you don't have Process Analytics on your EMS team, or if you are on Celonis 4, no action is required. To check, look for the Process Analytics icon in the navigation bar. Process Analytics and Studio Analysis have the exact same look and feel, so you can resume working with your analyses in Studio without any additional training. Studio also has the latest capabilities and user experiences in app-building and automation. See Process Analytics vs. Studio for a feature comparison and tips for Process Analytics users. Process Analytics End of Life has full details and FAQs for your migration.

Task Mining Desktop Application version 2.13.0 (2023-08-31) Choose custom patterns for data redaction You can now configure the Task Mining Desktop Application to redact personally identifiable information (PII) before data is sent to Celonis EMS. Previously, you needed to either skip the whole data point, or create a custom SQL transformation to redact the data in Celonis EMS after it had been sent. Now, you can use the desktop Configuration Editor to set up regular expressions to identify and mask sensitive content such as credit card numbers or email addresses. You can choose which data columns each regular expression is applied to, and what the data is replaced with before it’s sent. See Data redaction for all the details.

Autosave indicator in Analysis (2023-08-30)When you’re editing an Analysis, all your edits are automatically saved. We’ve added an autosave indicator so it’s easier for you to see when the save is happening (a loading icon), if it failed (an error icon), and if it succeeded (a success icon). You can hover over the success icon to see the time of the last successful autosave. You can also now choose to save the Analysis manually, which adds a new version to the version history (see Autosave indicator, but you don’t have to do this - we’ll still save automatically.

Content-CLI (2023-08-24) Attention: YAML migration affecting Content-CLI exportIn this release of Content-CLI we’re changing some of the configurations for the YAML and JSON parsers used to export packages and assets. For each of your assets and packages, the next time you use Content-CLI to export it and push it to Github or another version control system, the file comparison (diff) will show the changes resulting from the migration. For JSON content, the content will be pretty-printed.For YAML content, multiline strings will have escaped characters unless you’ve used block scalar format with an indicator for the literal style (|) or the folded style (>). When you’re writing a multiline PQL query or another multiline string, we recommend using literal style for the best experience in the YAML editor, and using newlines in visual editors. Here’s an example of literal style: pql: | AVG(CASE WHEN "ACTIVITY_TABLE"."USER_TYPE" = 'A' THEN 0 ELSE 1 END)  

Network Explorer 0.8 (2023-08-21) Explore and visualize the dimensions of object to object relationshipsNetwork Explorer is a powerful visualization method to examine how objects are related across your business. Choose different dimensions to explore your object to object relationships by country, plant, material, distribution, or any other arbitrary dimension, and choose the KPI to display for each object. Network Explorer provides the visualization for the End-To-End Lead Times App for object-centric process mining, and supports advanced use cases such as material margins or carbon footprint calculations.  This new version of Network Explorer has been redesigned to offer dimension selection and drill-down capabilities for nodes. Network Explorer was formerly known as Network Explorer (Signal Link) or Signal Link Explorer. For the documentation, see Network Explorer.

SAP Ariba Extractor (2023-08-18) Use the Catalog Content API for Procurement, and add filters to extractions You can now extract Procurement Catalog data for your processes using the Catalog Content API. Every API group needs a separate data connection in Ariba, so you'll need to create a new data connection to use this. The Catalogs and CatalogItems tables are available through this API.The Extractor now supports additional filters on specific columns when you connect using one of the synchronous APIs (Contract Compliance, Document Approval, Supplier Data, External Approval, Custom Forms, Master Data, Catalog Content). Supported API Endpoints and available Tables lists the tables and columns that you can filter. See SAP Ariba Connection for the Ariba Extractor documentation.

Accounts Receivable Unearned Cash Discount App version 0.1.0 (2023-08-17) Identify cash discount misuse to stop revenue leakage (Limited Availability) Our new app for Accounts Receivable helps you identify and prioritize accounts that consistently take more cash discounts than applicable, so you can take action to prevent future revenue leakage. The Unearned Cash Discount App: Automatically reconciles cash discounts in customer payments against the applicable cash discount.Surfaces customer accounts with consistent cash discount misuse and high unearned cash discount volumes.Tracks changes in customer payment behavior and value realization by leveraging pre-built actions. The Unearned Cash Discount App is in Limited Availability status. If you want to try it out, ask your Celonis EMS contact, or request the app in the Marketplace.

Package templates to kickstart your app creation in Studio (Limited Availability) (2023-08-14) We’re making it very simple to get started in Studio. Our new package creation flow, currently in Limited Availability, provides package templates for the most common combinations of assets. When you start creating an app, you'll be offered preset templates to generate a preconfigured Studio package with typical assets for a use case, ready for you to edit. If you’re interested in trying this out, get in touch with us through servicedesk@celonis.com.

Support for object-centric process mining in Process Explorer (2023-08-11) Process Explorer now works with your object-centric perspectives. When you choose a perspective from your object-centric data model, Process Explorer automatically switches to multi-object mode, and shows the flows of the events that happen to each object type in a subway-style map. You can choose the object types that you want to include in the graph by selecting their projections. When an event type happens to more than one object type, Process Explorer merges these into a single node with a distinct count of the events. You can click on an activity node to see which object types are involved and filter on them. For the Process Explorer documentation, see Process Explorer.

Accounts Receivable Credit Management App version 1.0.21 (2023-08-11) Enhanced for greater compatibility with typical corporate policies We’ve added support for a parent-child credit account hierarchy, with transactions and sales orders views on the parent account level, and consolidated credit scoring and prioritization of the parent accounts.The app displays customer details in the local currency instead of the reporting currency.Users can now maintain multiple credit approval matrices, grouped by credit control area.The app now supports multi-level credit limit approval workflows and has extended support for parallel and sequential approval flows.We’ve added an email workflow to enable external approver actions.When you’re configuring a workflow, you can now use approval groups to assign multiple approvers to the same review at the same time.We’ve enhanced the configuration UI that business users (like Finance Controllers or senior Credit Team members) use to manage and change the Credit Approval DOA matrix.We’ve optimized the credit exposure calculations. For the app documentation, see Credit Management App.

JDBC Extractor version 2.84.0 and Streaming Connectors 1.29.0 (2023-08-10) This version of the JDBC Extractor adds support for Oracle CLOB (Character Large Object) and NCLOB (National Character Large Object) data types. Your Java version must be at least Java 17 for this version of the JDBC Extractor. If you haven’t upgraded yet, follow the steps in How do I update an on-premise extractor? We’ve also updated the Azure EventHub libraries used by our Streaming Connectors feature.

New enhanced Time Filter component in Studio (2023-08-10)The Time Filter component of Studio Views lets you navigate through time-based data and explore trends, patterns, and insights across different time periods. We’re replacing the existing component with a new component that has several advanced capabilities. You can select items quickly, choose ranges in days or months, and write your selection into a variable. All users will be migrated from the old component to the new component. For the documentation, see Time filter.