Product Updates

Drag and drop dimensions in Charts (Limited Availability) (2024-03-27) You can drag and drop dimensions into the metric section when configuring your Studio charts, allowing you to quickly apply an aggregation and turn it into a metric. When attempting to do this with a chart that has two dimensions and no metrics, you're also prompted to turn a dimension into a metric if needed. For more information about the new Studio experience, see: new Studio experience (limited availability). And to learn how to create Studio views, see: Creating and configuring Studio views. 

Edit the 'Active until' date for invited users (2024-03-27) You can now edit the 'Active until' date set for any users invited to join your Celonis Platform team but who haven't yet accepted the invitation. When viewing your existing users (available by clicking Admin & Settings - Users), you will now see an editable date selector. Once this date passes, the invitation expires and any attempts to accept the invite are denied. For more information about managing your users, see: Inviting users. 

Linking from table cells in Studio views (Limited Availability) (2024-03-25) You can configure links from cells in the table component, using placeholders to populate custom URLs. This can be valuable for linking to a source system, where fields shown in a table are key URL parameters. To configure your table links, click into the Column settings and then enable Go to view or URL within the Selection behavior settings.  For more information about the new Studio experience, see: new Studio experience (limited availability). And to learn how to create Studio views, see: Creating and configuring Studio views.

Use OAuth 2.0 to authenticate applications (2024-03-25)You can now use enterprise-grade OAuth 2.0 clients, as an alternative to API keys or application keys. When you create and register an OAuth client, you can set the required scopes to define the access level to the Celonis platform - ensuring the application is limited to the access level it requires. For the documentation, see Registering your OAuth client in Celonis Platform.

Process Adherence Manager (2024-03-21) Get to your target process faster We've simplified the user journey for analysts working with Process Adherence Manager in Studio, and added powerful new modeling capabilites to create your target process model. Choose object types and variants to mine a baseline model, then edit it to create a target model. You can insert and remove events, bypasses, and blocks to define your ideal process. For the Process Adherence Manager instructions, see Create your target model.

Filter the list of transformations (Object-centric process mining) (2024-03-14) We’ve noticed some analysts' object-centric data models have a long list of transformations, especially where multiple source systems are providing the data for objects and events. When you’re working with transformations in the Objects and Events UI, you can now filter the list of existing transformations by namespace (Celonis or custom), object type or event type, or data source, to find the ones you do want or exclude the ones you know you don’t want. The search function will operate on your filtered list, and we’ll let you know when filters are active. Creating custom transformations has more on working with transformations.

New Pie Chart component in Studio (Happy Pi Day!) (2024-03-14) We've added pie charts to Studio to give you a new way of visualizing your data. The Pie Chart component is only available to configure in YAML in the general availability feature set. (When you go to the new Studio experience, they'll have a visual editor there.) For the instructions,  see Pie or donut chart.  . 

Use Business Miner with custom object-centric perspectives (2024-03-11) Business Miner can now be used with your custom object-centric models, in addition to the Celonis catalog processes. When you use a custom perspective as the data model for a Process Workspace, you can choose from the standard Explorations about throughput time, automation rate, unwanted activities, or unmet deadlines. Each Exploration is scoped to a single object - you'll need to select which object to explore when you create the Exploration. For the Business Miner documentation, see Business Miner.

Copy Paste improvements in Studio (Limited Availability) (2024-03-08) We've revised the copy and paste logic when editing your new Studio experience views, allowing you to paste your components in an exact position. This copy and paste logic applies on a new view or tab and in a shifted position on the same view or tab. This ensures a consistent look and feel and avoids the need for you to manually move your components to the correct position. For more information about the new Studio experience, see: new Studio experience (limited availability). And to learn how to create Studio views, see: Creating and configuring Studio views.

Process Adherence Manager (2024-03-05) Alignment Explorer gives more insights on how your process deviates from the model We've added a new capability to Process Adherence Manager for you to visualize the end-to-end flow of your variants, along with selected deviations. Alignment Explorer gives you a comprehensive view of the issue, letting you identify which variants are associated with a particular deviation, and helping you detect any process-based dependencies linked to the deviation.  Click the list icon at the top left of the main page in Process Adherence Manager to get to Alignment Explorer. You can also open Alignment Explorer by clicking the list button in a card in Deviation Explorer, to see all variants based on that deviation. For the documentation, see Alignment Explorer.

Audit changes to your object-centric data model (2024-03-05) We’ll now add an entry to the audit log when your analysts do any of these things: Create, change, or delete object types, event types, perspectives, or transformationsPublish the object-centric data model just to development, or to production as wellEnable or disable a process from the Celonis catalog, and for a specific data connection Viewing your audit logs has instructions to see the audit logs, and Audit logs - Event details lists each of the events that we’ll be logging from now on.

Knowledge Hub (2024-02-23) New content for Order Management, Inventory Management, Procurement, and more (Limited Availability)Knowledge Hub, part of the Process Intelligence Graph, is a centralized, integrated, curated knowledge repository where you can browse, prepare, and validate knowledge before using it across all of Celonis. Knowledge Hub provides a common schema for how business concepts and objects relate, with streamlined creation and validation of knowledge, and AI annotations to enrich data and empower faster insights. With these capabilities you can speed up KPI validation and achieve faster time to value. Knowledge Hub was released in early access late last year with out-of-the-box knowledge for Accounts Payable, and we've been working to add more process knowledge. You can now access the top metrics for the Order Management, Inventory Management, and Procurement processes, along with universal cross-process content, and Accounts Receivable is following soon. Any of the assets in Knowledge Hub can be reused directly in Studio when you're building applications and views - you can include an asset by referencing its ID. Based on feedback we've also made some enhancements to the UI for filters, processes, and business concepts. Knowledge Hub is in Limited Availability status. To try out the feature, you'll need a Celonis license that includes object-centric process mining. Talk to your Celonis point of contact to find out more. You can read more about Knowledge Hub at Getting started with Knowledge Hub.

Knowledge Models (2024-02-22) Lock KPIs from base Knowledge Models in extension Knowledge ModelsYou can now choose to lock the KPIs in a Knowledge Model when it’s used as a base Knowledge Model. Locking the KPIs makes them immutable in the extension Knowledge Model, so analysts working there can't change KPIs that are taken from the base Knowledge Model. They can only make edits if they are working in the base Knowledge Model. Locking the base KPIs ensures that your company-wide KPI definitions can only be altered by analysts with direct edit access to the base Knowledge Model. You can lock an individual KPI, or all the KPIs in a Knowledge Model, when you're editing the base Knowledge Model. Any KPIs that you leave unlocked can be edited when they're used in an extension Knowledge Model, but locked ones can’t. To lock or unlock an individual KPI, toggle on the option Allow other analysts to edit KPI from extension KM. To lock or unlock all the KPIs in a Knowledge Model, use the lock icon in the top right corner of the Knowledge Model. For the documentation on KPIs, see Knowledge Model - KPI.

Material Allocation App (object-centric) version 1.0.0 (2024-02-22) Understand excess supply and uncovered demand and find inventory reallocation opportunities (General Availability) Our object-centric Material Allocation app for Inventory Management is now in General Availability status. The Material Allocation app uses constraint-based optimization and insights generated with object-centric process mining to identify opportunities for working capital optimization, through moving existing inventory from where it is not needed to where it is needed the most. The calculations take labor or transportation cost into account as well as any additional constraints specific to your business. Use the Bill of Material Explosion and Inventory Projection features to evaluate the impact and feasibility of your proposed re-allocations. The object-centric Material Allocation app is the successor to the case-centric Material Shortages app, which is now deprecated. The Material Allocation app is a premium app, and is subject to an additional licensing fee. Talk to your Celonis account team to arrange this before you download the app. To use the Material Allocation app you’ll need a Celonis license that includes object-centric process mining. The app needs some additional custom object types to enable its use cases, so you’ll need to create a custom Inventory Management perspective to use with the app in place of the supplied perspective. When you request the app in Marketplace we’ll provide a step-by-step guide for you to do this. For the app documentation, see Material Allocation app - object-centric.

Inventory Management Control Center, Master Data Improvement, and Starter Kit (object-centric), version 1.4.0 (2024-02-22) Streamlined calculations and enhanced quantity and currency conversion Version 1.2.0 of these apps, released mid-January, was an early release to fix an issue with attribute references exceeding the platform’s character limit. We also streamlined the calculation for purchase and production lead times to reduce nesting, moved calculations for averages earlier in the process so they needn’t be duplicated, and combined some KPIs that were only used once in the Knowledge Model and weren’t used in views. In version 1.3.0, released on 6 February, we updated the Quantity Conversion KPIs with the new QUANTITY_CONVERT PQL operator, and appended the existing Currency Conversion KPIs with enhanced operator syntax. Version 1.4.0 updates the object types, event types, and relationships from the Celonis catalog to be compatible with version 1.1.0 of the catalog. Upgrade the apps to version 1.4.0 to keep them in line with our updates to the Celonis catalog types. If you’ve extended any of the Celonis object types and event types, we’ll apply your extensions to the updated types. If you’ve replaced any of the Celonis object types and event types with custom equivalents, we won’t make any updates to those. If you find you have two exact copies of a relationship, a custom one and a catalog one, delete the custom one in each case. For the upgrade instructions, see Updating the object-centric Inventory Management Starter Kit.

Transformation Hub (2024-02-16) Add historical value to an opportunityIn Transformation Hub, you can now add and edit value that was already realized before you created an opportunity, or before the opportunity went live. Scroll to the end of the opportunity, and click Add to include historical realized value. Enter the amount of value and the estimated timeframe when it was realized, then click Save to add it to the opportunity.You can add historical value to opportunities in both Draft and Live status - so you can use any value you realized before Transformation Hub was launched or before you created the opportunity there, including value recorded in other tools like spreadsheets, or value based on data that's no longer in Celonis. With this functionality, Transformation Hub's Value Report can now be a single source of truth that showcases all the value realized over the opportunity's lifetime - perfect for sharing with business stakeholders.  For the feature documentation, see Setting up Transformation Hub. 

JDBC Extractor version 2.91.5 (2024-02-16) Optimizer hints for Oracle databasesIn this version of the JDBC Extractor we’ve added support for optimizer hints while extracting data from Oracle databases. We’ve also unified the three metadata retrieval approaches so that they all return consistent information. There’s some library updates, and our Windows installer executable is now signed with a Celonis certificate. For the instructions to update, see Installing and updating the on-premise JDBC extractor.

Oracle Fusion BICC Extractor (2024-02-15) Extract from an OCI Object Storage bucket (Limited Availability) The Oracle Fusion BICC Extractor can now pick up files from an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Object Storage bucket, as an alternative to Oracle UCM. You'll need a new or existing storage bucket that BICC connects to, and a user to authenticate with. For the instructions, see Oracle Fusion BICC extractor. The BICC Extractor is in Limited Availability status. To get access as an early adopter, ask your Celonis point of contact.

Get started with a flat file using Quickstarts in Business Miner (2024-02-15) With the help of our Quickstarts, you can now get started with Business Miner even if you don't have access to a Data Model, by uploading a flat file. When you've uploaded the data, we'll transform it and create a Data Model and Process Workspace for you, so you can get on with exploring your process. When you're creating a Process Workspace, pick one of the additional options in the Data Model selection step to upload flat files from SAP or Oracle, or upload a CSV file or Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, or link a Google Sheet with an event log. For SAP and Oracle, if you don’t have the flat files, we’ll provide you with an extractor that you can run to produce the data you need. For the Business Miner documentation, see Business Miner.

Workforce Productivity (powered by Task Mining) (2024-02-13) Custom labeling for your Task Mining data (General Availability) After our successful Limited Availability phase, we’re giving all customers of Workforce Productivity (powered by Task Mining) access to our no-code label editor to create custom labels for processed Task Mining data. Since the LA release, we’ve added a new user interface for previewing your labels. From 7 February, whenever you create a new project, you’ll be able to use custom labels to apply your own readable and meaningful application and screen names. We've also reduced the number of default labels, and reformatted and reviewed them for quality. You can create and manage labeling rules in the no-code editor. Your existing projects will keep their data processing strategy and labels. For the documentation for labels, see Label Editor.

Improved retry and duplicate removal ServiceNow Extractor (2024-02-12) We’ve made some improvements to the ServiceNow Extractor’s behavior in two areas: If fewer records than expected are retrieved from the API, because of row-level permissions on specific tables, the Extractor no longer retries the specific requests. You’ll see a significant improvement to the extraction time in this situation - previously the Extractor was retrying five times with a one minute wait in between.When the rolling page size is set to 0 (the default is 5), the Extractor now removes duplicate records during the ingestion process as well. You don’t have to make any changes to get these benefits - we’ll apply them for your existing extractions. For the Extractor documentation, see ServiceNow Connection. 

Export data from table components (Limited Availability Program for Studio) (2024-02-09) When you create a table component in the new Studio experience, you can choose the new interaction option Allow exporting from table to let your end users export the data they see in the table. They can choose from two file formats, a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (.xlsx) or comma-separated values (.csv). For the instructions to set this up, see Configuring tables.

Duplicate Invoice Checker (case-centric) version 2.2.0 (2024-02-09) Customize the duplicate checking algorithm Algorithm customization is generally available with this release of the Duplicate Invoice Checker. Everyone can now customize the duplicate checking algorithm in the app's Knowledge Model to define custom patterns that determine a match. You can specify the columns that are checked for each pattern, perform multiple exact and fuzzy matches in the same pattern, and adjust the sensitivity parameters for fuzzy matches. We've also made a number of other smaller enhancements with this release, including adding more details about invoices in the profile view, and some improvements in the Knowledge Model. For the app documentation, see Duplicate Invoice Checker.

Global search on the Objects and Events Dashboard (2024-02-09) We’ve added a global search function to the Dashboard that lets you search across all the entities in your object-centric data model - object types, event types, transformations, and perspectives. You can use it to locate entities when you aren’t sure whether they’re objects or events, and to find all the entities containing a specific keyword. Click on any search result to go to the appropriate area of the Objects and Events environment and view the details of the entity. To get to the Dashboard, in the Celonis navigation bar, select Data > Objects and Events, then select Dashboard in the top navigation bar. For the object-centric process mining documentation, go to Object-centric process mining overview.

Simpler modeling for relationships for object-centric process mining (2024-02-08) We've redesigned the Objects and Events user interface to give you more guidance when you're modeling custom object to object relationships and event to object relationships:The list of relationships for an object is now divided into outgoing relationships, where the foreign key or join table is to be implemented on this object, and incoming relationships, where the foreign key or join table is to be implemented on the other object. You can click any relationship to view the implementation details and the location of the transformation. You can also show inactive relationships that the object has for processes that you haven’t enabled yet.When you create a relationship between two object types, we now automatically create the relationship in the other direction as well. If you don't want a bidirectional relationship, you can delete it.We've combined the options for the relationship's cardinality with the choice of where and how to handle the relationship data in your transformations, so it's clearer what to choose and what you'll need to do afterwards. Your choices for the cardinality of a custom relationship are now many to one (m:1), one to many (1:m), many to many (m:n) with the relationship table as a join table on the source object, or many to many (m:n) with a join table on the target object. We've removed the choice of a one to one (1:1) relationship, as the object-centric data model and the underlying database don't enforce uniqueness of a foreign key. Any custom one to one relationships already in your object types will continue to exist. For the modeling documentation, see Modeling objects and events.