Product Updates

Process Sphere: Improvements to edit mode(2023-07-19) You can now use all the filters when you’re in Process Sphere’s edit mode.When you’re editing an asset, the Enter edit mode button is disabled for other users. If they’re using the asset in view mode, they’ll see a message that you’re editing it. For the Process Sphere documentation, see Process Sphere.

JDBC Extractor version 2.82.0 (2023-07-19) We've recently upgraded to Java 17. From version 2.80.1 of the JDBC Extractor, you're required to upgrade your Java version to at least Java 17 to ensure compatibility and leverage the latest enhancements and security features.With version 2.82.0, we’ve removed some additional steps from the upgrade process. Follow these steps to upgrade your on-premise JDBC Extractor package and run the new version: Install Java 17 in your local environment.Update your environment settings to use Java 17 as the default Java version.Replace the existing connector-jdbc.jar file for the JDBC Extractor, with the new .jar file supplied with this release of the Extractor.Replace the existing CelonisJdbcExtractor.xml file for the JDBC Extractor, with the new version supplied with this release of the Extractor. For the upgrading documentation, see How do I update an on-premise extractor?.

Accounts Payable apps now available for object-centric process mining (2023-07-18) The most popular apps for Accounts Payable now have versions in the Celonis Marketplace that support object-centric process mining. The object-centric versions of the apps use the Accounts Payable perspective that’s supplied with our object-centric data model, or a custom Accounts Payable perspective that you have created in your team. The Payment Term Checker compares payment terms on posted invoices, purchase orders and vendor master data to identify unfavorable mismatches, helping you to improve free cash flow.The Open Credit Memo App lists open credit memos prioritized by realizable value, highlights those at risk of being written off, and supports you with clearing them by showing related open invoices.The Blocked Invoices App prioritizes your invoices to maximize realizable cash discounts and ensure on-time payment, and supports you to resolve blocks by highlighting the reasons for them. (The initial version of the object-centric app doesn’t support parked invoices.) As for the Accounts Payable Starter Kit, to use the object-centric versions of the apps, you’ll need a Celonis EMS subscription that includes object-centric process mining, and you’ll need to load the object-centric data model with your data and validate the Accounts Payable perspective. Talk to your Celonis Account Executive to find out more.

Business Miner: View individual cases in an Exploration (2023-07-14) You can now access the details of individual cases used in an Exploration, to help you find actionable cases. Click on the case table icon to open up the Case Explorer component, and select any case ID to see and search the full list of activities for it. The case table is filtered using the same filters you applied for the Exploration.  See About Explorations in the Business Miner documentation. 

Studio: Case Explorer - display, sort, and search cases (2023-07-14)The new Case Explorer component lists cases with the number of activities, first and last activity and their timestamps, and throughput time. You can display any extra columns that you have in your case tables. Select a case ID to see searchable details of all the activities.You can add Case Explorer to views in Studio, and Business Miner uses it when you view a specific case. Case Explorer supports multiple event logs - you can define which is the main event log. See Case Explorer for the documentation.

Starter Kit version for object-centric process mining (2023-07-14)  An Order Management Starter Kit version that supports object-centric process mining is available now from the Celonis Marketplace. The object-centric Order Management Starter Kit uses the Order Management perspective that’s supplied with our object-centric data model, or a custom Order Management perspective that you have created in your team. See Order Management Starter Kit - object-centric for the installation instructions. Before you set up the object-centric version of the Order Management Starter Kit, you’ll need to load the object-centric data model with your data and validate the Order Management perspective. The Starter Kit uses the objects and events that you’ve already built from your source system data and stored in the OCPM Data Pool. To get started, see Quickstart: Extract and transform your data into objects and events. To use this version of the Starter Kit, you'll need a Celonis EMS subscription that includes object-centric process mining. If you can't see the Data > Objects and Events option in your Celonis environment, your team doesn't have this feature yet. Talk to your Celonis Account Executive to find out more.

Intelligence API version 1.7.0 (2023-07-12) We’ve increased the maximum number of allowed fields for a request in the EMS knowledge model, from 20 to 200 (see Intelligence API Features).The operands OR, AND, NOT and logical grouping can now be used in filter expressions (see Intelligence API Features).We’ve added a new error 400 relating to Knowledge Model attributes and augmented attributes with the same name (see Intelligence API Error Catalog).The response for the Knowledge Model list endpoint now includes the published date and timezone (see Get a list of KMs). 

Oracle Fusion Cloud Extractor (2023-07-10) You can now add extra columns to the primary key definitions for the Oracle Fusion Cloud Extractor, as you can for other extractors. We’ve also picked a better default primary key for the Extractor to suggest for these tables: suppliers.assignmentsinvoices.invoiceLinesreceivablesInvoices.receivablesInvoiceLinesreceivablesInvoices.receivablesInvoiceDistributionspayablesPaymentsjournalBatches.journalErrorsjournalBatches.journalHeadersaccountingPeriodsLOVlegalEntitiesLOV The Extractor updates automatically, so the new default primary keys will be applied automatically for you. For the setup documentation, see Oracle Fusion ERP Cloud Connection.

Change to Action Flow notification subscriptions (2023-07-10) Action Flow notification emails are now disabled by default for new packages and new users. Previously, all users with permissions for a package were automatically subscribed to notification emails for errors and deactivations. From now on, only the user who creates the Action Flow gets automatically subscribed to those emails. Other users can subscribe to them in a package’s Notifications settings. We aren’t changing the notification settings for current users and their current packages. The new default only applies for new users that interact with any package, and to current users that interact with new packages. For the Action Flow notification documentation, see Action Flow notifications.

Kafka to EMS Connector version 1.7.2 (2023-07-05) We've renamed the configuration option connect.ems.parquet.write.flush.records to the more correct connect.ems.parquet.row.group.size.bytes. If you have the old option in your configuration keys, your connector will now use the new default value of 1024 * 1024, which was changed in version 1.7.1. The new configuration option connect.ems.allow.null.pk lets fields used as primary keys have null values. Use it with care - allowing null primary keys can cause data inconsistency in Celonis EMS. This option was added in version 1.7.1 of the connector.We've also made some efficiency improvements to the connector's HTTP client, which now has a 90-second global timeout, and there's only a single client instance for a connector task. For the Kafka to EMS Connector upgrade documentation, see Upgrade from the previous version.

Changes to Excel data export from Table component in Views (2023-07-04) You can export data to an Excel file (.xlsx format) from tables with the allowDataExport configuration option. For the Table component documentation, see Table. We’ve made some improvements to the export to improve the consistency and compatibility of the exported data. Date, float, and integer columns are now exported with the format that’s set for them in the Knowledge Model, and columns in abbreviated format are exported as the raw number value, so that they can be treated as numbers in Excel. If you have applications that rely on the way the data was exported before this change, check their results and adjust them if you need to.

Process Sphere improvements (2023-07-04) Edit and view modes, graph improvements, search, and workflow and lifecycle upgrades Process Sphere now differentiates between edit mode, where you are modeling how your process should run (the to-be model) using our process mining capabilities, and view mode, after you've finalized the process model. In view mode, you can report the data with reference to the model, using your individual filter set, to see how often the events in the model occur, how many objects flow through the included edges and how long this takes.We’ve made a number of improvements to the process graph and its layout, including showing an arrow on the end of all the edges.You can now search for and jump to object types and event types that are part of the process model.We've added a map legend to help you remember what the different shapes and notation in the process model mean.The View control panel is now called Model editor.When you use filters in Process Sphere, the event count now shows the number of distinct events after filtering, and next to the filter panel we show the proportion of objects covered after filtering. You can see the coverage for all the object types by expanding the filter panel, then expanding Data & Coverage Info.Instead of picking a Data Model when you create a new Process Sphere, you now use a Data Model variable as you would in other Studio assets such as Views. You can see all the Data Model variable values, and which Process Sphere they're used for, in the Variables tab of the package settings.Process Sphere now supports all the Studio lifecycle features, including publishing, versioning, rollback, permissions, and duplicating a Process Sphere.Here's the Process Sphere documentation.

Get Rows module Action Flows (2023-07-04)The new Get Rows module for Action Flows replaces the Query Data module. With the Get Rows module, in addition to querying directly from a Data Model as you could in the Query Data module, you can choose to query table rows using the attributes and filters stored in your Knowledge Model. Get Rows has the documentation.

Business Miner: Debug and KPI formula information, filtering and sharing (2023-06-30) You can now see and debug what's going on underneath the hood in Business Miner:If any of the questions in the list on the starting screen are disabled because of data issues, select Debug to see the PQL formulas that are missing information, and what they're missing.Click KPI Definitions in an Exploration to see and search descriptions of the KPIs. Users with the Admin or Analyst role can also view and copy the PQL formula for a KPI.In the settings for a Process Workspace, you can now choose what dimensions of the data to let users filter on in explorations. From the context menu (the three vertical dots), select Process Workspace Settings, then the Configure filters tab. Here you can pick the additional fields you want to make available in the Filter bar for the Exploration.  We've also improved the experience of inviting your colleagues to view a Process Workspace. Use the Share button on the Explore page or in the Exploration itself to send the upgraded invitation email to your colleagues and give them access. The Business Miner documentation is at Business Miner.

Open Credit Memo App for Accounts Payable version 0.2.0 (2023-06-26) We’ve added in-app documentation from the sidebar to help you with prioritization and value realization.You can filter out reversal documents quickly with the new Exclude Reversals filter in the sidebar.There’s no longer a default filter for the View (previously it was the Rejected filter).We’ve restructured the Credit Memo Details profile view into three tabs (Overview, Activity History, Comments) and moved the existing View into the Overview tab. Important:If you’ve customized the layout of the Credit Memo Details profile view: Before you upgrade the app, remove the layout section in the YAML editor for that View - don’t remove the definitions in the components section.After you upgrade the app, add the components back into the View. 

JDBC Extractor, version 2.80.1 (2023-06-21) We've recently upgraded to Java 17. From version 2.80.1 of the JDBC Extractor, you're required to upgrade your Java version to at least Java 17 to ensure compatibility and leverage the latest enhancements and security features.Follow these steps to upgrade your on-premise JDBC Extractor package and run the new version: Install Java 17 in your local environment.Update your environment settings to use Java 17 as the default Java version.Replace the existing connector-jdbc.jar file for the JDBC Extractor, with the new .jar file supplied with version 2.80.1 or any future release of the Extractor. In the command that you use to run the .jar file from the operating system service, include the following JVM arguments: --add-opens=java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED--add-opens=java.base/java.io=ALL-UNNAMED--add-opens=java.base/java.nio=ALL-UNNAMED  

Data Integration: Search transformations for tables, columns, and statements (2023-06-02) You can now search the transformations in a Data Job to find which ones reference a specific table, column, or SQL statement. The search function gives you the names of the tasks and the lines of SQL containing your search term, for quick debugging.

On-prem connectivity, version 1.1.0 (2023-06-01) On-prem clients (Automation Agent and SAP Extractor) securely connect your on-premises source systems with Celonis EMS to extract and write back data. You can now manage on-prem clients in a central interface in Admin & Settings.The new Oauth 2.0 authentication flow lets you authorize on-prem clients, and we encrypt sensitive data in the configuration file.We provide a guided user flow for download and installation. The OS-agnostic local management tool simplifies installation for IT and removes manual steps. The new installation process for on-prem clients is in Limited Availability. If you’re interested in trying it out, get in touch with us through servicedesk@celonis.com.

Email notifications for @ tag mentions in comments in View (2023-05-30) When you @ tag a colleague in a comment component in a View, they'll now get an email notification with a link to your comment and a description of its context.

Bulk update actions and custom column pinning in Views (2023-05-26) Augmented Attributes in the Table component can now be updated in bulk - change up to 5000 rows in seconds with a single action. You can activate bulk update actions for users in your Table settings.Users can now fully customize which columns in a table to pin, and which side to pin them to, to tailor the table to their exact preferences.See Table for the instructions.

Automate your Action Flows with Triggers (2023-05-25) Triggers allow you to define business objects which, when detected in your records, will trigger predefined automation. To set this up, in Knowledge Model, use Triggers to define relevant business objects you want to detect and run automations for. You can use filter conditions to refine your definitions. In Action Flows, use a Watch Trigger module that allows you to connect a Trigger with a selected Action Flow. Triggers created this way will continuously monitor all available data and detect whenever there is a new item that fulfills your criteria. For more information on how to start using Triggers, see Triggers documentation. Make sure to check out the Celonis Academy MicroCourse on Triggers as well.

Celonis EMS Connector shipped with Power BI Desktop installation (2023-05-25) With the Microsoft Power BI May 2023 release, the Celonis EMS Connector is officially certified by Microsoft and included when you download or update the Power BI Desktop installation. You won’t need to download the connector from the Celonis EMS marketplace or install it separately. It’s therefore being removed from the Marketplace. For the Celonis EMS Connector documentation, see Experiences.

Business Miner - General availability and additional process-specific Explorations for license holders (2023-05-24) Business Miner is now generally available for all customers, and you can use it to explore your processes using a guided series of questions and answers. Business Miner lets you leverage EMS functionality quickly and easily and collaborate with colleagues using Insights.We’ve added extra questions for our standard Explorations and introduced (subject to licensing) process-specific Explorations for our core processes: Accounts PayableAccounts ReceivableOrder ManagementProcurement You can also discover how automated your processes are with our new Automation Explorations and uncover the underlying causes of issues with our KPI driver analysis for standard Explorations. Business Miner supports object-centric process mining. You can set up Business Miner and create a Process Workspace based on the object-centric data model and the prebuilt perspectives for our core processes. To find out more about Business Miner, see Business Miner.

Object-centric process mining (2023-05-23) Prebuilt object-centric data model and object and event modeling capabilitiesObject-centric process mining is a technology that enables the analysis of interrelated objects and events involved in business processes. Events are related to objects instead of a single case, making it possible to fully view complex and interacting processes from any angle.Now you can experience the power of object-centric process mining in Celonis EMS: Get a head start on modeling business processes with prebuilt Celonis object types, event types, and relationships for the most commonly used business objects across companies, assembled into a system-agnostic object-centric data model.Use the prebuilt extractions and transformations for SAP ECC and Oracle EBS to load your business data into the object-centric data model and create objects and events.Reuse your objects and events to analyze your business processes through the supplied perspectives - Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Procurement, Order Management, and Inventory Management.Extend the object-centric data model with your own customizations to the prebuilt object types, and create custom object types and event types to model objects and events specific to your business. Build your own perspectives to analyze them.Use the built-in editor to create SQL transformations to populate your custom object types and event types with your data, or to transform data extracted from other source systems into the prebuilt Celonis object types and event types. To access objects and events and the object-centric data model, you'll need a Celonis EMS contract that includes object-centric process mining. The license is process-specific - you can only use these capabilities to model the processes you've licensed. If you can't see the Data > Objects and Events option in your Celonis environment, your team doesn't have this feature yet. Talk to your Celonis Account Executive to find out more. To get started with object-centric process mining, see Object-centric process mining overview. 

End-To-End Lead Times App version 1.0 (2023-05-23) Analyze your supply chain bottlenecksThe new End-To-End Lead Times app is the first Celonis app built to use the capabilities of object-centric process mining. The End-To-End Lead Times app:Calculates the entire lead time to procure, manufacture and distribute goodsBreaks down the impact of each of these processes on the lead timeHelps you to identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies You can use the app’s findings to help you to:Meet service levelsIncrease resilience and agilityRealize lean inventory levels to free up working capitalReduce your end-to-end lead times for competitive advantage You can download the End-To-End Lead Times app from the Celonis Marketplace. The app works with objects and events, and requires the Inventory Management perspective that’s supplied with our object-centric data model. You’ll need to load the object-centric data model with your data and validate the Inventory Management perspective, then set up the End-To-End Lead Times app (which doesn’t need its own data connector). To get started with object-centric process mining, see Object-centric process mining overview, and for the app documentation, see End-To-End Lead Times App.