Software solution’s ability to  discover optimization potential in hospital management convinced jury

Celonis‘ Process Business Intelligence-solution Celonis Pathfinder has been awarded with the innovation prize 2013 of the German association for hospital controlling (DKVC). The jury handed the award to uhb consulting AG, Celonis‘ German distribution partner for software solutions in healthcare.

The DKVC-prize awards innovative projects in the healthcare industry that are considered a landmark in hospital controlling. A key element for the jury’s decision, consisting of DKCV’s management and its scientific advisory council. has been the success existing users of Celonis Pathfinder experienced in their projects. The jury highlighted the possibilities of the software to act as „X-ray device for IT driven processes“, visualizing optimization potential. The success stories of users pointing out the software’s benefit for hospital controlling were another crucial reason.

„We and our partner, uhb consulting AG, are very proud that we won the award”, says Alexander Rinke, Celonis’ co-founder and Managing Director. „Celonis Pathfinder is based on our ground-breaking technology Process Business Intelligence, which is designed for real-time analytics of IT driven processes. It enables users to mine all processes in their hospitals. The jury emphasized, that Celonis technology combines important elements of Business Intelligence and Business Process Management and creates, combined with Process Mining-algorithms, a yet unknown level of transparency for the customers.”

Celonis Pathfinder provides a complete and transparent visualization of patient pathways in a hospital. The actual treatment process can be reconstructed from hospital admission to the receipt of payment after an invoice has been issued. Inefficiencies on all structural levels become visible and the case by case analysis exposes critical issues – e.g. if invoicing takes too long, due to bottlenecks in the process. Celonis customers were able to realize savings of up to 30% of their process costs and tremendously improve service quality as well as compliance.

About Celonis

Celonis© is the world’s leading supplier of enterprise-ready process mining solutions. With its unique Process Business Intelligence technology, a complete solution uniting process mining and business intelligence, it offers the world’s most powerful tool for optimising IT-driven processes in businesses and other organisations.

Celonis PBI is a versatile, innovative, industry-independent analytics solution combining Process Mining and Business Intelligence. Celonis also offers three market-leading, turnkey solutions based on Process Business Intelligence for the IT service management, ERP systems and hospital management sectors:

Celonis Orchestra is an advanced tool for analysing service desk processes.

Celonis Discovery is an optimised process mining solution for analysing processes in ERP systems.

Celonis Pathfinder is a high-performance hospital management solution.

Siemens AG, Bayerische Rundfunk, Südwestrundfunk, Hessische Rundfunk, Westdeutsche Rundfunk and Norddeutsche Rundfunk have all concluded that Process Business Intelligence represents a standard technology for analysing process data and have placed their confidence in Celonis’ strength and capacity for innovation. Celonis GmbH is based in Munich.

Further information is available from www.celonis.de.

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In Palo Alto, young entrepreneurs and experienced ones come together for “My Success. Our Visions.”

When it comes to start-ups and founding in Germany, there’s good news and there’s bad news. The bad news is: Europe probably has a long way to. The good news is: “The start-up scene in Germany is seeing a wonderful new generation.”

At least that is what Dirk Kanngiesser believes, CEO of the German Silicon Valley Accelerator (GSVA) and one of the opening speakers at “My Success. Our Visions.” in Palo Alto. The evening event is about both sides: entrepreneurs who have made it, talk about their challenges, and share best practices – and young founders who have come to the Silicon Valley for following their own path to success. Kanngießer and the team at GSVA invites those German Start-Ups to the Bay Area for three to sixth months, and help them “to get their feet on the ground” by bringing them together with potential customers, partners and investors.

“The start-up scene today in Germany breeds a very different kind of companies, much more diverse and probably a bit more hyped than 15 years ago”, said Kanngießer. He especially pointed to Berlin, which had earned “a beautiful reputation” for starting a business over the last years. Also, he hopes, exchange and cooperation is increasing between the two hotspots Berlin and Silicon Valley. A sure sign for that is the visit of German Federal Minister for Economics and Technology Philip Rösler in the middle of May, who will bring not the bosses of Siemens and ThyssenKrupp with him to the Valley, but 50 young entrepreneurs, who are only just starting.

Martin Sinner once started as a young founder, too – the longtime CEO of Idealo Internet GmbH was representing the “My Success” part of the event. Sinner managed to develop Idealo to one of the leading price comparison companies, despite a horrifying market situation in 2001 after the “New Market Crash”. Back then, “an ecosystem of founding almost didn’t exist in Germany”, Sinner said. “Also, no angel investors, no ecosystem of building web-portals.” So Idealo ran quickly out of money. Sinner had to take a day job, eventually managing his own company only after 7 p.m. But he didn’t give up. Hitting rock bottom eventually turned out to be the key to success. “We really had to look for ways to activate customers for low cost, and it was a great time for doing that.” After all, Google was coming up, and Sinner realized that Search Engine Optimization (SEO) was a great source for the traffic he needed so badly – and for money. “And suddenly we got it”, Sinner remembered. From then on Idealo grew on average 40 percent a year, eventually being bought by Axel Springer in 2009.

Anna Kendeva, CTO of “Mobile Event Guide”, was speaking on behalf of the “Our Visions” part. Her mobile apps guide visitors through big events like conferences or trade-shows. “Imagine you can send your showcase or whitepaper to everyone who joins a particular session”, Kendeva explains the functionalities. “The organizers on the other hand can generate additional value through sponsorship and advertisement.” As the US is the biggest market for events, Mobile Event Guide hopes to set foot here too.

Bastian Nominacher, founder of Celonis, is also attracted by the attractive business opportunities he sees in the Silicon Valley. Celonis has developed a technology called process mining, which analyzes big data, visualizing business processes running on SAP-systems with a few mouse clicks. Siemens, one of the first customers, uses it to advance its internal compliance, by analyzing the streams of orders, payments and revenues. “Our technology can be applied in a variety of fields”, Nominacher said, “in hospitals, manufacturing, the IT service management space”. As his company is growing, he plans on recruiting a team on the U.S. west coast to “serve the biggest market for business analytics”.

“There’s such a good ecosystem around founding here”, Martin Sinner concluded. “If you go to Stanford, there are classes for every student about entrepreneurship.” And the German Silicon Valley Accelerator allows some of the best German startups to tap this unique ecosystem.

Guest article by Christoph Behrens