OUR VALUES
The Celonis Way
At Celonis we’re helping companies change the way they work, so we can all do our part to ensure a better future for all.
Our values help us get there.
Hear from our leaders
Learn how we bring our values to life through personal stories from our leaders.
Live for Customer Value
We believe customer trust is earned by creating value. So we measure our success in customer outcomes and measure innovation by the value it delivers. When our customers do better, we do better.
Miguel Milano
Hear from Miguel Milano, Chief Revenue Officer and Co-Owner, about how living for customer value is a state of mind.
The Best Team Wins
We believe our people make us who we are. We dream big and work hard as a diverse, passionate, humble, and curious team relentless in our path to growth. And this brings value to all other stakeholders.
Bastian Nominacher
Hear from Bastian Nominacher, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, about the key ingredients to building a winning team.
Winning the 2019 German President’s Award
From Jerome Geyer-Klingeberg, Head of Academic Alliance
In November 2019, Celonis won the German President’s Award - marking the first time in history that a company was nominated and honored in “software and algorithm-based innovation.” After a year-long rigorous and technical application process, we made it to the final round. During the nomination period, we designed our own campaign and asked every Celonaut how they would imagine a #frictionlessfuture with Celonis. They shared amazing stories, designed new apps, and thought of new visions and ideas for our contribution to society.
The night of the award show, over 100 Celonauts gathered for a viewing party in our Munich office. The founders, our project team, and a few of our first Celonauts and customers were at the live event with the German President in Berlin. The energy felt like watching a football championship and winning was a truly historic moment for Celonis. After we won, the jury praised our commitment and innovative spirit of our team.
Now, Celonis is showcased in a special exhibition at the German Museum of Technology in Munich. When asked what the founders wanted to do with the award money, the answer was simple: give back to society, acknowledge and appreciate their own roots, and create future value. So, we launched the global Celonis Aspire program to support equal access to education. Learn more
We Own It
We believe accountability builds trust. We make data-driven decisions and take responsibility for our stakeholders with a founder’s mentality. All while embracing a spirit of resourcefulness and problem-solving.
Earth Is Our Future
We believe in doing business that is good for people and the planet. We put our technology into the hands of those who will use it for good - through our Academy and nonprofit programs. We help our customers make their processes more sustainable and less wasteful. We’re committed to running our company in an environmentally sustainable way. Because, we are doing our part to ensure a better future for all.
Alexander Rinke
Hear from Alexander Rinke, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Celonis, about our commitment to supporting a more sustainable model of society.
Technology for Good: COVID-19 Response
From Bertram Lutz, the Head of Solution Engineering, UK and Ireland
At the early onset of the global pandemic, my team and I kept hearing the same thing from our customers: “We are struggling to function as a business right now. Our supply chain is in upheaval.” I thought - this is not just affecting Celonis but majorly impacting our customers.
But we can help with our technology. That night, putting my solution engineering skills into play and using our demo environment, I built an analysis that speaks to the problems our customers are having - drilling down on supply chain reliability. The next day, I shared the recorded demo with my team, a handful of BDRs, sales reps, and solution engineers, and it went viral internally.
In less than a week, an entire team of Celonauts came together to design apps, build additional use cases and demos, and create useful content to launch our COVID-19 Customer Care Program. We rolled out three free apps for our customers and non-profits focused on what’s most critical - Cash Preservation and Supply Chain Reliability. Our response to COVID-19 was an opportunity to leverage our technology for good in a time businesses need it most.
FISA: Focus, Invent, Simplify, Act
We Focus. We Invent. We Simplify. We Act. FISA is our set of operating principles that applies to all our values, allowing us to understand and execute them.
Martin Klenk
Hear from Martin Klenk, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, about how applying FISA helps us thrive as our organization scales.
Our rapid transition from on-premise to cloud
From Bardh Lohaj, Engineering Lead, Applications and Development Center of Excellence in Pristina
Our biggest motivation to pivot from on-prem to the Cloud was to boost productivity and efficiency. While on-prem has countless execution gaps, the Cloud allows us to release biweekly updates and proactively monitor our software which improves our product, customer service, and brings more value to our customers. We can do everything faster - from iteration and taking in customer feedback to innovation.
We took a calculated risk and acted on it - dedicating six months to build a robust technical foundation. What takes most companies years to complete a transition this massive, we achieved in a little over 1.5 years.
We simplified everything moving forward with how apps are built. Now, we can run multiple microservices so each team can run their own service and stay in sync with their customers and their team. The Celonis EMS picked up really quickly - over 90% of customers in 2019 and 2020 adopted it. Shortly after, we won the Best SaaS in the U.S. Category in 2018-19 Cloud Award.