Founded in 2011 by three university students, Celonis’ market leading platform (Gartner, 2019) has helped companies achieve process excellence by removing operational friction points with its Intelligent Business Cloud platform. Besides user-friendly process discovery, analytics and conformance checking capabilities, the platform offers a dedicated Transformation Center for KPI monitoring. One of the key strengths is Celonis’ comprehensive approach for process enhancement which includes a Python-based Machine Learning Workbench for predictive insights, an AI-powered Action Engine for intelligent process recommendations and Process Automation to automate workflows. Celonis provides a highly scalable and secure platform, offers various deployment options and supports many databases and systems for data extraction. Celonis recently launched Operational Applications, which are role-based applications that automate tasks, prioritize workflows, and prescribe guidance against target business goals leveraging business context, AI, and the core process mining engine. The vendor is closely cooperating with universities through its Academic Alliance program.