Product Updates

Upgraded Apps and Studio navigation, with enhanced View editing experience (Limited Availability Program for Studio) (2023-12-01)   Our limited availability program for Studio enhancements has started. The scope includes: An intuitive and coherent Apps (for business users) and Studio navigation experience with improved search and guided creation flows.Simplified view editing to empower analysts to quickly and easily build dashboards and apps using drag-and-drop, visualization recommendations and integrated action setup.Enhanced PQL building functionality that simplifies the selection and aggregation of data while building your components. You can write PQL queries locally and see results immediately, or tap into a Knowledge Model or centralized knowledge definitions from our new Knowledge Hub (also in Limited Availability).The capability to set up email actions directly in table components. You can define the email and link it to a selection in a table, use attributes from the record in the email template, and set up an action button, without leaving the table. For all the changes and available capabilities, see Studio (new experience).

Transformation Hub (2023-11-14) The central hub for monitoring your transformation program and business impact Transformation Hub is the central hub for managing your transformation program and quantifying the business impact of Celonis implementations. It supports you in your value journey as you prioritize opportunities to work on, monitor progress, and measure outcomes. Transformation Hub enables easy management of and collaboration on value opportunities implemented across your enterprise. Record all opportunities in Transformation Hub for prioritization and planning based on strategic objectives and potential impact. Accelerate progress and quantify business impact with Celonis in-product best practices and process knowledge. We provide reporting functionalities out of the box with no need for custom builds. You can visualize your outcomes across processes, objectives and value stages in one place, and stay up to date on the performance of your transformation program. With Transformation Hub, you’ll get visibility and transparency into the work of your team, how value is quantified, and the KPI improvements driving value creation, for stakeholders across the organization. You can read more about Transformation Hub in this blog post on celonis.com, and in the documentation at Setting up Transformation Hub. Transformation Hub will be in General Availability on 14 November. It's included by default for Celonis Foundation, Celonis Process Based, and C4C Credit Based customers. If your team should have access to Transformation Hub but you’re not seeing it in the navigation menu, please reach out to your Celonis representative.  

Changes to Skill availability (2023-10-05) From October 5, 2023, some less-used Actions for Skills that you can build using Action Flows will no longer 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 items 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, 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 Action in this list that you rely on, contact the support team at celopeers.com/s/support. We’ll also be enabling some Sensors and Actions for Skills by default for all teams. The Machine Learning Sensor, Manual Sensor, and Smart Sensor will be available by default, and the following Actions: the Execution Output, Filter, Loop, and Router system actions, and the Celonis actions Create PDF Report, Create Task, Email by Celonis, Email (SMTP), Execute Action Flow, Execute ML Notebook, Execute Process Automation Skill, Get Assignee, Get Task(s), Query Data Model, Update Augmented Attribute, Update Task(s), Write Data to Table, and Write Data To Table (Continuous Data Push API).

Last month to migrate from Process Analytics to Studio Analysis (October 2023) Studio Analysis is replacing Process Analytics. If you’re still using Process Analytics, migrate your analyses to Studio Analysis this month, 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.

Changes to Business Miner (2023-10-31) Share an Insight or a Process Workspace with users outside your team Users of Business Miner can now share an Insight or a Process Workspace with anyone by providing their email address in the sharing dialog. Users who are Admins can add that user to the Celonis EMS team right away. Users who aren’t Admins can generate an email request to the team’s Admins with their justification for adding the new member. When an Admin approves the request, the recipient gets an email with information on the asset that’s being shared with them. An Admin needs to enable this feature in Admin & Settings before users can access it, then configure the email notifications. If you don’t want your users to make these requests, you can leave the feature disabled. See Sharing with non-EMS users for more information.

Workforce Productivity (powered by Task Mining) (2023-10-31) Custom labeling for your Task Mining data (Limited Availability) You can now create custom labels for your processed Task Mining data, to apply your own readable and meaningful application and screen names. Use our no-code label editor to create and manage your labeling rules. We've also reduced the number of default labels, and reformatted and reviewed them for quality. Custom labels and the no-code editor are in Limited Availability status. You'll need to create a new project to get the capability. If you want to try this feature out, get in touch with your Celonis point of contact. For the documentation for Workforce Productivity (powered by Task Mining), see Task Mining.

Control analyst access to Action Flow assets - Limited Availability (2023-10-30) You now have the option to control which analysts can access Action Flows to view, edit, and activate them. When you request activation of this feature, we’ll remove access to Action Flows for users with the Analyst role by default. You can enable access for the users or groups that you want in the Action Flow section of the Permissions pane in Admin & Settings. Users without access can't see Action Flows, and can't activate Action Flows, though they can still publish a package that contains them. Users with the Admin role always have access to Action Flows. This option is in Limited Availability status. If you’d like us to activate this solution in your team, ask your Celonis point of contact.  

Workforce Productivity (powered by Task Mining) (2023-10-30) Everyone can scale projects up to 2500 concurrent users and 6 months of data (General Availability) After our successful Limited Availability phase, we’re giving all customers of Workforce Productivity (powered by Task Mining) the capability to create projects with up to 2500 concurrent users, and analyze on average 6 months of historical data. Selected regions will see the new capability immediately, and everyone will get it on 30 October. Subject to licensing, you’ll benefit from the new user limit whenever you create a new project. You’ll also see that the package’s new delta architecture processes incoming data ready for analysis typically within 1 to 3 hours. Our new views simplify all the analysis features available in the previous version of the package. You’ll also get the Team Insights view which lets you calculate metrics for a subset of defined users, such as teams, regions, or roles. Because your existing projects are built on the older data model, we can’t migrate them automatically. You won’t see the new user limit, views, and processing speed for existing projects. If you want to upgrade and scale up an existing project, you’ll need to set it up again as a new project and manually adapt the views and analysis to work with the new schema. If you’d like to do this, get in touch with your Celonis point of contact. The 6-month average time for historical data analysis is based on the maximum permitted number of users sending a typical amount of Task Mining events daily. The actual limit is 1.6 billion events, so if you have fewer users in your project or they send fewer events than expected, you can analyze the data for a proportionally longer timeframe. We might also be able to help you in certain scenarios to roll out beyond the upper limit of 2500 concurrent users. Realm-specific limits on the number of concurrent users might affect your maximum scalability. To learn more about Workforce Productivity (powered by Task Mining), see Task Mining. 

Updates to SAP Ariba Extractor (2023-10-18) Extract EventSummaryFact table with Sourcing API We’ve added support for extracting the EventSummaryFact table through the Sourcing API. This table provides additional events and timestamps for use cases in the sourcing domain. If you have a connection to the Sourcing API, you’ll see the table in the extraction configuration, and you don’t need to make any changes. See SAP Ariba Connection for the Ariba Extractor documentation. Supported API Endpoints and available Tables lists the tables and columns that you can extract.

Bulk copy Studio packages and data pools between your EMS teams - Limited Availability (2023-10-12) With our new team-to-team copy feature you can pick packages and data pools to copy from one EMS team to another. The feature can check for any missing dependencies on other items that you didn't select for copying, and add them automatically. When you've set up a batch copy, you can rerun it whenever you want - we keep a log of both successful and failed runs and track progress while the copy is running. For data pools, the team-to-team copy feature doesn’t copy over your extracted and transformed data, just the configuration for the data pool - so you can use it to transfer a sandbox setup to a production team. You can read more at Copying multiple assets between EMS teams. Note that packages with Action Flows can’t be copied. The team-to-team copy feature is in Limited Availability status. If you want to try it out, ask your Celonis EMS contact.

Process Sphere version 0.8 (2023-10-11) Process Sphere's new user journey enables you to create a target model by mining a selection of "healthy" variants from the as-is behaviors shown in your data, and editing them into a to-be model that describes how your process should behave. You can then explore how the actual behaviors in your data deviate from the desired behavior in your target model. Process Sphere calculates what the impact of each deviation is - especially on the throughput time - and how often it occurs. You can filter your data at the mining, modeling, and exploration stages to limit the scope if you want to. We've enhanced Process Sphere's performance so the number of object types and event log entries is no longer limited, though the row limit for the underlying data still applies. For instructions and all the details, see the Process Sphere documentation.

Translate your apps into multiple languages in Studio (2023-10-09) Use our new localization feature to provide multi-language support for your apps. You'll find a Translations tab in the package settings - go there and click Enable Translations to activate the feature for that package. You can pick the app's default language and activate any of the nine supported languages. Then work with your translations in a CSV file or directly in Studio. For Knowledge Models and Views, we capture all attributes that you haven't yet translated and flag them for you. There's also a preview button so you can view translated assets in the alternate languages. When you've published the package, end users see the app in the language set in their EMS profile. See Translating Studio Apps. for more information. 

Upcoming changes to Skill availability (September 2023) From October 5, 2023, some less-used Actions for Skills that you can build using Action Flows will no longer 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 items 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, 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 Action in this list that you rely on, contact the support team at celopeers.com/s/support. We’ll also be enabling some Sensors and Actions for Skills by default for all teams. The Machine Learning Sensor, Manual Sensor, and Smart Sensor will be available by default, and the following Actions: the Execution Output, Filter, Loop, and Router system actions, and the Celonis actions Create PDF Report, Create Task, Email by Celonis, Email (SMTP), Execute Action Flow, Execute ML Notebook, Execute Process Automation Skill, Get Assignee, Get Task(s), Query Data Model, Update Augmented Attribute, Update Task(s), Write Data to Table, and Write Data To Table (Continuous Data Push API).

Migrate now from Process Analytics to Studio Analysis (September 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.

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?