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Quickstart for SAP ECC and Oracle EBS

Extract, model, and load operational data from SAP ECC or Oracle EBS instances into an object-centric process mining (OCPM) data pool. Connecting these source systems standardizes transactional event pipelines into a single data layer, delivering end-to-end process visibility across enterprise ecosystems.

Before you begin

Before starting this quickstart pipeline, verify you have:

  • Admin permissions in the target Celonis team.

  • An active Celonis Marketplace subscription with installation permissions.

  • The host URL, client credentials, and access tokens for your SAP ECC or Oracle EBS instances.

Step 1: Configuring the connection and extracting your data

Connecting a source system to the Celonis Platform extracts operational data and shares it directly with the destination object-centric data pool.

  1. Open the Celonis Marketplace, locate the object-centric extractor for your source system, and click Get it now.

    For example, the OCPM Extractions SAP ECC Order Management:

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  2. Select your installation mode in the setup wizard and click Start installation:

    1. With a data connection: The system automatically provisions an extraction data pool, connects to the source system, and populates pre-defined data jobs from the Celonis catalog.

    2. Without a data connection: The system creates an empty OCPM data pool structure requiring manual data connection setup.

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  3. Optional: Click Data Connections - Add Connection to integrate additional source systems if your objects and events require multi-system data.

  4. Click Data Jobs and execute the provided extraction jobs to pull source data into your extraction data pool.

  5. Run the data jobs to extract your source system data into the extraction data pool.

    For more information about data jobs, see: Executing data jobs.

  6. Share the data from the extraction data pool into the the data pool where you’re working with objects and events.

    • From the main menu, click Data - Objects and Events and then click Dashboards - OCPM Data Pool. When you do this for the first time, the OCPM Data Pool is created in your team.

      The OCPM Data Pool button is after the main navigation bar on the Objects and Events dashboard.

    • From the main menu, click Data - Data Integration and select your OCPM data pool.

Step 2: Enabling core processes

Enabling core catalog processes applies associated object types, event types, relationships, and perspectives to your OCPM data pool.

  1. Click Data - Objects and Events and select the data pool you want to use.

  2. Click + Add from catalog.

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  3. Select your target Celonis process (such as Procurement) and toggle the Enable process slider to the active position.

    This action activates the associated object types, event types, relationships, and perspectives.

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  4. Select your data connection from the dropdown menu and click Add to apply the Celonis data transformations.

    Important

    Enable either SAP ECC or Oracle EBS transformations per process. Do not mix both on a single data connection. Create separate data connections for separate source systems.

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  5. Optional: Set the Source system parameter dropdown to your specific system. This configuration applies globally and overrides local parameters inside individual transformations.

    Note

    The Source system parameter is a global configuration parameter. Configuring it will override local parameters within all individual transformations in the process.

    Screenshot showing the location of the "Source system parameter" within the Accounts Payable process configuration.

  6. Optional: Toggle the Skip missing data switch to allow transformations to run despite source system structural gaps:

    • Missing columns: Creates objects and events with null values in these fields.

    • Mismatched data types: Automatically converts required columns to the expected format.

    Screenshot showing the location of the "Skip missing data" option in the Account Payable process configuration.

  7. Click Data - Objects and Events - Create version to generate an immutable snapshot of your data model.

    To learn more about creating versions and deploying them to production, see: Versioning and deploying OCDM

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  8. Click Deploy and complete the deployment wizard to push the data model version to production.

Step 3: Running the extractions and transformations

The final step is to run your extractions and transformations, which pull raw data from your source systems and convert it into a usable format in the Celonis Platform.

To run your extractions and transformations:

  1. Click Data - Data Integration and select your deployed object-centric data pool.

  2. Click Data Jobs to view your configured data pipelines.

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    The system displays two default pipelines:

    • ocpm-data-job: Predefined transformations for production workloads.

    • test: ocpm-data-job: Transformations designated for development and testing environments.

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  3. Click Options - Execute Data Jobs next to your target data job. Repeat this action for each active source system.

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  4. Click Full Load, then click Execute Selection to run the data extraction and transform your raw data into object-centric event logs.

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    The extractions execute, converting raw data into object-centric event logs within the platform framework.

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