In Short

One of the propositions within my team at KPMG involves advisory on processes, bottlenecks and organizational inefficiencies using Process Mining. Process Mining typically involves gathering data around the steps within a process, usually stored in some sort of ERP system, visualizing it and start to better understand it. It is particularly useful when your process is not overly complicated but with too many involved people such that there is no clear overview available.

Before Celonis started offering its Cloud-based version, it was required to host your own version and activate it through a license per user. At this moment, Celonis also offered a community edition you could run locally, but if you’re working with multiple people on the same dashboards, analyses and data, you generally want to able to see ech other’s work and collaborate effectively.

The rough sketch for the setup is as shown below. Note that:

• Celonis itself is run on a VM within Azure
• backed by a MSSQL database
• And each developer can access both the Celonis instance and database through a docker container for more advanced analyses development purposes not supported through the GUI.