Prateek Rao

Spot on about decoupling licenses from dedicated virtual machines, as that used to crush scalability economics in large rollouts. The 70% to 80% FTE savings on unstructured PDFs is huge, though governance guardrails around agentic actions remain the real battleground.

Hit nail on head with the packaging and version control critique. The process discovery views are best in class, but treating asset releases as all or nothing bundles makes granular rollback and pipeline tracking a massive headache for developer teams.

We mainly deployed it to untangle our Procure to Pay mess in SAP and stop cash leaking out the door. It quickly showed us where invoices were getting stuck and where teams were bypassing preferred vendors, which standard reporting always hid.

Celonis pricing is premium and scales primarily on data ingestion volume (APC/Data Capacity) and process scope rather than user seats, with entry deployments typically running $100K to $250K annually and full enterprise rollouts frequently exceeding $1M.The hidden cost sits…