Celonis Named to Fast Company’s Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2025
NEW YORK and MUNICH, March 18, 2025 – Celonis, the global leader in Process Mining and Process Intelligence, has been recognized by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2025. This prestigious list honors businesses that are shaping industry and culture through their innovations to set new standards and achieve remarkable milestones. Celonis’ inclusion underscores its pioneering role and market leadership in Process Intelligence.
“In a world defined by change, innovation isn’t optional, it’s essential. Celonis is proud to be recognized among the most forward-thinking companies for our relentless pursuit of creating value for our customers,” said Alex Rinke, co-CEO and co-founder of Celonis. “This honor is a testament to the hard work of our Celonauts, our customers and partners, and the game-changing impact of Process Intelligence, which empowers businesses to eliminate inefficiencies, supercharge AI initiatives, and drive sustainable, long-term business impact.”
Celonis provides Process Intelligence by combining process data and business context to create a living, process digital twin of an organization—the Process Intelligence Graph (PI Graph). The Celonis Platform (with the PI Graph as its heart) reveals where value is trapped in a company’s processes and drives the actions to capture it - increasingly by using AI to improve and automate business processes.
The Celonis PI Graph gives AI the relevant process data and business context it needs to understand how a business runs and how to make it run better. Over the past year, Celonis has announced multiple innovations that enable effective enterprise AI and make the platform more scalable and easier to use, and shorten time to value, including:
AgentC: A suite of AI agent tools, integrations, and partnerships that allows companies to use AI agents pre-built by Celonis partners, as well as develop their own in the leading AI platforms.
Annotation Builder: A no-code tool that uses GenAI to reason through data, whether structured or unstructured, and generate decisions and action recommendations.
Process Copilots: Solutions that enable analysts to interrogate their data using ordinary, non-technical language and receive rapid insights about process improvement opportunities.
Orchestration Engine: Intelligent software that provides a real-time process framework and codifies business rules to steer processes live at scale. It fuses BPA (business process automation), RPA (robotic process automation), and iPaaS (integration Platform as a Service) and is enhanced with generative AI capabilities to seamlessly integrate systems and orchestrate processes along the entire value creation chain.
Platform Apps: Applications built by Celonis or its partners on its market-leading Process Intelligence Platform that enable companies to achieve unrivaled value across domains, such as logistics and transportation, front office operations, banking, and more.
Tariff Management: Real-time, cross-functional insight, enabling businesses to navigate supply chain volatility with data-driven decisions, giving companies a powerful new way to quantify tariff exposure, simulate impacts, and proactively adjust sourcing strategies.
Networks: A solution that extends the power of Process Intelligence by connecting companies to each other, so processes that run both within and across companies can be optimized.
Celonis Data Core: The data stack that powers a step-change in both speed and scale for ingesting data into Celonis, delivering 20x performance vs. competition.
Trusted by half of the top global 200 companies, Celonis innovations enable companies to optimize performance, achieve greater agility in today’s fast-changing landscape and free up billions in trapped value.
“Our list of the Most Innovative Companies offers both a comprehensive look at innovation today and a playbook for the future,” said Fast Company editor-in-chief Brendan Vaughan. “This year, we recognize companies that are harnessing AI in deep and meaningful ways, brands that are turning customers into superfans by overdelivering for them, and challengers that are introducing bold ideas and vital competition to their industries. At a time when the world is rapidly shifting, these companies are charting the way forward.”
Alongside the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies, Fast Company recognizes 609 organizations across 58 sectors and regions. The full list of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies honorees can now be found at fastcompany.com.
For more information about Celonis and its award-winning Process Intelligence platform, visit www.celonis.com.
About Celonis
Celonis makes processes work for people, companies and the planet. The Celonis Process Intelligence Platform uses industry-leading process mining and AI technology and augments it with business context to give customers a living digital twin of their business operation. It’s system-agnostic and without bias, and provides everyone with a common language for understanding and improving businesses. Celonis enables its customers to continuously realize significant value across the top, bottom, and green line.
Celonis is headquartered in Munich, Germany, and New York City, USA, with more than 20 offices worldwide.
© 2025 Celonis SE. All rights reserved. Celonis and the Celonis “droplet” logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Celonis SE in Germany and other jurisdictions. All other product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
About Fast Company
Fast Company is the only media brand fully dedicated to the vital intersection of business, innovation, and design, engaging the most influential leaders, companies, and thinkers on the future of business. Headquartered in New York City, Fast Company is published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along with fellow business publication Inc. For more information, please visit fastcompany.com.