November 2023 Release Notes

When you invite new users to your Celonis team, you can now specify an “Active Until” date after which the user’s team membership is locked. You can use this feature to issue a temporary invite to a user that needs to access the team for a time-limited period. When the date is reached, the user account is handled according to your team’s user locking policy - the account is automatically removed from the team if you’ve set that in the policy, or else the team membership can be unlocked if you want. For the instructions, see Inviting users to your Celonis platform team.

This version of the RFC Module enables you to:

The updated RFC module also includes improved file listing logic for faster file fetching, better error messages for issues with the change log table, and automatic synchronization of the change log table with the data dictionary.

We're deprecating the uplink-based SAP Extractor, and introducing an improved on-prem client that runs most of the orchestration and data processing logic in the cloud. There's still an on-prem component to install, but we'll make most of our updates and fixes in the cloud instead of requiring you to upgrade your local client. The cloud can also handle more data more reliably, scaling and adjusting processing capabilities based on traffic.

We’ve simplified the setup for this version of the on-prem client:

Use the on-prem client for new teams, and set it up for existing teams as soon as you're able. You can keep your uplink-based SAP Extractor running alongside the on-prem client if you want, with the possibility to swap the Data Connection back to it at any time. When you're confident in the new data pipeline you can uninstall the operating system service for the uplink-based SAP Extractor. We'll continue to support the uplink-based extractor until we let you know otherwise.

The upgraded Celonis on-prem clients for Windows, Linux and MacOS are now in General Availability status. The on-prem clients use a new Oauth 2.0 authentication flow to securely connect your on-premises source systems with Celonis to extract and write back data. You can authorize Celonis to access specific on-premises applications and carry out pre-defined actions using Action Flows. We encrypt your sensitive data in the configuration file.

You can manage the on-prem clients in a central interface in Admin & Settings. We provide a guided user flow for download and installation. The OS-agnostic local management tool simplifies installation for IT and removes manual steps. If you’re already using the Automation Agent and the SAP Extractor, you can update them to leverage the consolidated on-premises connectivity.

See On-premises clients (OPC) for the documentation.

We’re launching the Process Intelligence Graph, which combines process data, process knowledge, and Celonis’ open platform to provide a common, data-driven language that drives process optimization for enterprises. It’s fully embedded in the Celonis platform, capturing and unifying your organization’s process data into a system-agnostic, enriched digital twin.

You can read more about the Process Intelligence Graph in this blog post on celonis.com.

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.

Celonis Studio is the workbench for analysts to analyze data, explore processes and build solutions to identify and realize value for their organization. We've been busy rebuilding Studio to make it easy and delightful for analysts. With the upcoming enhancements we want to bring joy to our users and get analysts up and running fast to help them build solutions in an intuitive and easy-to-use way.

On November 30th 2023, we’re starting  a Limited Availability program which includes:

You can read more about the Studio enhancements in this blog post on celonis.com or by reading Studio.

Our new object-centric Material Allocation app for Inventory Management is launching in Limited Availability. The app gives you a unified view across all your materials, helping you to understand current excess and shortage situations.

You can leverage constraint-based optimization to find the best opportunity for re-allocating existing supply from where it is not needed, to where it is needed the most. The app takes 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 Material Allocation app is built for object-centric process mining, so you’ll need a Celonis license that includes this. Talk to your Celonis point of contact to find out more.

When you're extracting data from source systems into Celonis, we now automatically adapt the column size for columns with the VARCHAR datatype, to be more appropriate for the actual length of the content. With the optimized column sizes, you might well see a significant performance improvement for your subsequent transformations and data model loads.