Celonis expands Oracle cloud tie-up for enterprise AI

Celonis has expanded its collaboration with Oracle, allowing enterprises to deploy its Process Intelligence platform on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The move builds on existing links between Celonis and Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications.

Joint customers can analyse and manage end-to-end business processes across finance, supply chain and other core functions. It also brings Celonis further into Oracle's cloud stack as companies look to connect AI projects with operational data and business workflows.

Under the expanded arrangement, organisations can run Celonis on OCI alongside Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications. This is intended to help customers add process intelligence to AI services running on Oracle's cloud platform, identify areas for automation and monitor results over time.

The collaboration also covers IT modernisation. Companies moving from legacy systems to Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP can use Celonis to analyse existing processes, benchmark performance and reduce migration risk.

AI Context

The announcement comes as many businesses increase AI spending while facing pressure to show measurable returns. Across the enterprise software market, vendors have been positioning operational data, workflow visibility and process mapping as essential to making AI tools more useful in day-to-day business activity.

Celonis focuses on process intelligence, which uses event data from business systems to show how work actually moves through an organisation. In this case, its platform provides a system-agnostic digital twin of business operations that can give AI systems more context when handling tasks across multiple applications.

Oracle has been promoting OCI as a platform for data-heavy and business-critical workloads, including AI applications. Making Celonis available on OCI aligns process analysis, enterprise applications and cloud infrastructure more closely for shared customers.

This is particularly relevant for organisations using Oracle software across finance and supply chain functions, where process bottlenecks, exceptions and manual workarounds can undermine automation efforts. Bringing Celonis onto OCI may also appeal to customers that want to keep more of their core enterprise software and analytics tools in the same cloud environment.

Modernisation Push

The partnership reflects a wider push by large software suppliers to tie AI efforts to modernisation programmes rather than treat them as stand-alone experiments. For many companies, replacing older systems and standardising workflows remains a prerequisite for broader automation.

Customers will also be able to orchestrate processes across Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, third-party software and custom systems running on OCI. That matters because many large organisations still use a mix of old and new applications, making it difficult to apply AI consistently across departments without a clearer view of how processes interact.

Celonis has built its business on helping enterprises uncover inefficiencies in procurement, order management, finance operations and other administrative processes. Oracle brings a large installed base of ERP and cloud application customers, giving Celonis a broader route into companies already engaged in digital transformation projects.

For Oracle, the expanded collaboration adds another software partner to its push to make OCI more attractive for enterprise AI deployments. Competition among cloud providers has increasingly centred on whether they can support not only model training and inference, but also the data integration and business application connections needed to make AI useful in practice.

"AI agents are only as effective as the context they operate in-and Celonis Process Intelligence provides that foundation," said Bastian Nominacher, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Celonis.

"Expanding our collaboration with Oracle allows customers to scale AI with confidence, grounded in a real-time understanding of their business operations," he said.

Oracle described the deal as part of its effort to support demanding enterprise and AI workloads on its cloud platform. It said the collaboration would help customers gain deeper process insight while advancing broader modernisation work.

"Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is designed to run demanding AI and enterprise workloads with high performance and reliability," said Chris Gandolfo, Executive Vice President of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and AI.

"Together with Celonis, we are helping customers gain deeper process insights and accelerate modernization initiatives on a secure, scalable cloud platform," he said.