Celonis & Databricks go hand in hand to drive enterprise AI adoption
Celonis and Databricks have announced a partnership to provide live, bi-directional access to data and process intelligence, aiming to enhance the adoption of AI in enterprise operations.
The collaboration brings together Celonis' Process Intelligence Platform with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform through a seamless integration that uses Delta Sharing, Databricks' open source data sharing tool.
This approach is designed to allow organisations to share live data across different platforms, clouds, and geographic regions while maintaining strong security and data governance protocols.
One of the key features enabled by this partnership is direct, live access to organisational data without moving or copying it between the two platforms.
This bi-directional data exchange is intended to help reduce data silos, limit duplicated data, and minimise synchronisation errors. According to the companies, this integration also improves data security and streamlines governance, helping enterprises manage their information more efficiently.
Process-centric context
Customers using Celonis will be able to access live data stored in Databricks, enhance it with organisational context, and generate what is known as a Process Intelligence Graph (PI Graph). This creates a digital twin of business operations, providing a detailed and current overview of processes and performance.
The integration also allows process insights derived from the PI Graph to be fed into Agent Bricks, the main AI product offered by Databricks.
Agent Bricks builds production-level AI agents optimised with an organisation's specific data. Conversely, insights and outputs from these AI agents can be reintegrated into the PI Graph with the aim of continually refining and optimising business processes.
"We want to give customers choice when deciding how they use AI to transform their business," said Marc Kinast, Vice President Corporate Development at Celonis.
"And with this integration, we're offering them a strong foundation for effective enterprise AI. Databricks brings its secure, governed data infrastructure and industry-leading agentic development tools and we bring our unique Process Intelligence that provides the operational context AI needs to succeed. It's a powerful combination."
This two-way data flow is expected to create what the companies describe as a continuous learning loop for AI-driven business operations, where the latest process information and AI-generated insights are constantly exchanged and updated to drive operational improvements.
Bringing AI to enterprise operations
"Enterprises want AI that truly understands their business," said Sarah Branfman, Global Vice President, ISV and Data Partner GTM at Databricks.
"By connecting Celonis' process intelligence with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, we're giving customers a direct path to build and deploy custom AI agents with Agent Bricks-grounded in their own live, governed data. It's how organizations turn process insights into real, intelligent action."
The integration is established through Databricks Delta Sharing and the Celonis Data Core, which is Celonis' proprietary high-performance data infrastructure.
The companies state that this ensures that both process intelligence and wider business data can flow efficiently and securely between systems, supporting continuous monitoring and optimisation of operations with minimal manual intervention.
The ability to create a living digital twin of organisational processes, enriched with real-time data and insights from AI models, is positioned as a way for companies to better understand how their operations function and where there are opportunities for further improvement.
Celonis and Databricks state that with the new joint offering, customers are better equipped to operationalise AI in their businesses, driving more targeted and efficient process improvements based on accurate and up-to-date data.
The partnership is described as an effort to provide businesses with flexible, secure tools that support the successful use of AI for process transformation and value creation.
