Celonis, IBM and Red Hat are teaming up to help accelerate adoption of the Celonis Execution Management System (EMS).

The strategic partnership aims to help address many challenges business leaders face as they digitally transform their operations. Celonis EMS sits on top of core systems such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM).

Celonis EMS pulls real-time data from them, and applies data, intelligence and automation to improve business operations.

Malhar Kamdar is Celonis’ chief ecosystem officer.

Celonis’ Malhar Kamdar

“This partnership is specific to IBM and Red Hat, but it is part of our overall strategy over the past year to rapidly grow our ecosystem,” he said. “Our partnership with IBM is very different from other partnerships. IBM is embedding the Celonis EMS throughout its organization, and broadly deploying it to over 10,000 IBM Global Business Services (GBS) practitioners from consulting, to business process outsourcing and enterprise applications like ERP, CRM and more. Celonis also is re-platforming our technology onto Red Hat OpenShift to deliver more flexibility to our customers with an open hybrid cloud strategy.”

IBM GBS is bolstering its consulting approach by implementing Celonis software as part of its methodology. It’s also helping clients build new solutions using Celonis EMS.

Clients across all industries can accelerate their transformation with more intelligent workflows, the company said. Additionally, Celonis can embrace an open, hybrid cloud strategy by re-platforming on Red Hat OpenShift to deliver more flexibility and choice in how customers deploy their technologies.

Unlocking Value and Optimum Performance

Mark Foster is senior vice president of IBM Services.

IBM’s Mark Foster

“This strategic partnership accelerates IBM’s billion-dollar partner ecosystem commitment and reflects our bold approach to expanding into high-growth, emerging categories to help meet the evolving hybrid cloud and AI needs of our clients,” he said. “The bottom line is our clients want flexibility and choice in how to make their enterprise workflows more intelligent and ultimately speed their digital transformation. Through this powerful new global strategic partnership with Celonis, we’re focused on unlocking value and optimum performance to help propel our clients’ growth and innovation.”

Additionally, Celonis is embracing an open hybrid cloud strategy using Red Hat OpenShift. It will deliver more flexibility for customers in where they deploy Celonis’ software. That’s across any public or private cloud environment they choose.

This flexibility is especially useful in highly regulated industries and enhances Celonis’ interoperability across customers’ existing systems, Celonis said.

“The three companies – Celonis, IBM and Red Hat – came together to help their customers unlock revenue and opportunities trapped in the inefficiencies of core enterprise systems while giving them more flexibility in cloud deployments,” Kamdar said. “Execution management combines data and intelligence to fix the siloed and static processes that are critical for business execution in every industry. Celonis has seen customers find tens of millions of dollars in business value through its execution management technology. And now by working together, the companies can bring that opportunity to even more customers.”