PME Guidebook
PME Guidebook
PME Guidebook
Congratulations on joining our international network of process mining experts! Your decision
to get certified is perfectly timed, as more and more businesses demand for professionals with
hands-on skills. This program will provide you with an interactive learning environment
containing an extensive online training, a real-world business case and constant support from
Celonis employees.
On the next pages, you will learn more about your expert journey – from start to certification -
and who you can ask if you need further support.
Contents
1. About the Celonis Process Mining Experts Program ......................................................................................................... 2
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1. About the Celonis Process Mining Experts Program
Celonis established an Academic Alliance in 2016 to empower the next generation of process
mining professionals. We do so by supporting researchers and students in academia around
the globe, for instance by providing course support and guest lectures, by working on research
projects with academic partners, or by supporting student theses.
The Process Mining Experts program, as the most recent addition, takes this empowerment to
the next level: Students get the chance to acquire process-oriented data science skills to solve
real world business problems. The idea behind this program was heavily motivated by the
founding history of Celonis. Alex, Basti and Martin – the founders of Celonis – were students
themselves when they had to come up with a process optimization idea for a Bavarian
company as part of a student project. The benefits of these practical experiences like project
management, entrepreneurship and teamwork were especially beneficial to them when
founding and building up Celonis.
Our Process Mining Expert program will take place over a timeframe of 5 weeks. This contains a
kickoff workshop, three online trainings, a business case and a final workshop. In between the
two workshops you can do the online trainings (27hrs total) as well as the business case up to
your pace and completely flexible. The exact date and time for the workshops vary depending
on when you are starting the track (spring or fall). They will be announced via E-Mail after your
sign up to the program.
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3. Certification Requirements
The Process Mining Expert certificate for academics is the highest training certification that
you can receive as a student. The three necessary components required for your certification
are the completion of online trainings, the hand-in of the business case and the participation
in both workshops.
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Participation in workshops
The participation in the kickoff and final workshop are mandatory. They will take place online
through our video conferencing tool. Both webinars will be recorded. In case you should not
be able to attend the webinars, please inform the program coordinator.
We offer an academic version of our Celonis Intelligent Business cloud® (Academic IBC) for you
to use for free for the purpose of the Process Mining Experts program and the duration of your
entire academic career.
We recommend you to use the software for the work on the business case. Analyze your own
data in Celonis and see how powerful the Celonis IBC can be.
All you need is an E-Mail address from your university / school / student association.
The Academic IBC offers all the features of the enterprise version of our software, but with a file
size limitation of 100,000 lines and without connectors to ERP systems such as SAP or other
enterprise software. You will be able to upload your own data through *.csv or *.xlsx files.
In exceptional cases, we can lift these restrictions and provide you with further support. If this
kind of support is essential for your thesis, please approach us via E-Mail
[email protected].
Please note that as of now, we only offer our cloud-based software solution for student projects.
Data in our cloud is secure, and we cannot access it unless you explicitly invite us into your team
(through team settings). We are certified according to ISO 27001 and SOC 2, which are industry
standards for information security.
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After signing up for the Academic IBC, you will see the “Process Analytics” tab, which contains
info on how to get started (“Celonis Campus”) and some demo analyses.
If you want to analyse your own data, you can upload your own event log in the “Event
Collection” tab.
We strongly recommend you taking the online trainings before working on the business case,
as explained in the next section.
The Celonis Academy has prepared free online courses to get started. Sign up with your
academic email address for free and select Learner Type “Academic”.
All courses are interactive as you are being walked through the software click by click. You can
take the courses at your own pace and download a certificate of completion at the end. The
Celonis Academy offers an extensive training catalogue, with these three main training tracks
suitable to your needs, as shown below:
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6. Further support
FAQ: https://lms.celonis.com/#/faq