ABBYY and Celonis are both solutions in the Process Mining category. ABBYY is ranked #12, while Celonis is
ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.4. ABBYY holds a 2.0% mindshare in PM, compared to
Celonis’s 19.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of ABBYY users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Celonis users who would recommend it.
We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
Categories and Ranking
ABBYY Timeline
Ranking in Process Mining
12th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.2
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Celonis
Ranking in Process Mining
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
52
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Mindshare comparison
As of April 2025, in the Process Mining category, the mindshare of ABBYY Timeline is 2.0%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Celonis is 19.8%, up from 15.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
The software is user-friendly, flexible, and can be used with various data sources. It provides various reports and charts that help organizations to identify areas for improvement and optimize their processes. ABBYY Timeline is a great choice for business process analysts, process owners, and IT professionals who are looking for a tool to help them analyze and optimize their processes. The process flow/diagram is the most valuable feature, as it offers a helpful visual simulation that allows users to see what's happening in the grand scheme of things and then drill down into specific tasks and processes to see where the bottlenecks are. For those companies that look for the low-hanging fruit in terms of process automation and operational excellence, this is the tool you need to succeed.
This tool allows me to discover value before discussing technology. It's the first solution that combines business competence and capabilities with technological capabilities. With Celonis, I discuss processes and root causes, analyzing the bottleneck resource process. There is an app centered around a data-driven approach. I can create the model and, in a data-driven way, map processes using technology that supports people in investigative activities by finding root causes where processes falter. Celonis emphasizes that these goals aim to generate cost optimization.
We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
Pros
"ABBYY Timeline provides various reports and charts that help us identify areas for improvement and optimize our business processes."
"I like that the product allows users to connect to different source systems like SAP, ServiceNow, and Salesforce."
"The most valuable features are process mining, task mining, business analytics, and machine learning."
"The most effective feature of Celonis is its capacity to analyze processes and uncover optimization opportunities through its visualizations of process variances."
"What I found most valuable in Celonis is the ease of use.
I also like that users can compare and contrast and derive any KPIs, keep track and see what's happening within the process via Celonis."
"The solution offers a very good user interface."
"Celonis is one of the best solutions on the market. It offers you a lot of training materials and exposure to its ecosystem. Celonis is trying its best to prepare an ecosystem for it because, without an ecosystem, you will not be able to scale up."
"They have in-built connectors for connecting to various systems."
"Celonis has helped me to identify and prioritize process improvement areas. Because we understand the end-to-end lead time, including waiting times and areas where rework happens, we can see the performance bottlenecks."
"There are a couple of new features available in Timeline that still need more time to mature."
"Celonis is a little more expensive than UiPath. Maybe they can work on making it less expensive."
"It would be helpful if they could categorize processes into tier levels."
"The task mining feature of Celonis needs improvement because it's more challenging than it looks."
"For example, we would like to see improvement of the simulation capabilities to include a BPMN-compliant modeler. That is, we would like to be able to connect the simulation to the BPMN modeler. I think it's one of the features that is missing in Celonis."
"The price could be better, but complexity is the biggest problem. Celonis is quite easy to operate once the customizations are done. You need a large amount of skill and knowledge to work with the tool. You need to understand it and know more than the basics."
"It requires specialized expertise to set it up in the backend."
"Celonis needs to improve the feature channel."
"Celonis needs to improve the feature channel. They should incorporate more generative AI elements into their solution."
"It is quite a significant investment. From a cost perspective, they need to reevaluate the licensing model. The cost is justified, but they need to make the licensing model slightly different."
"I was not involved in that, but I am sure it was cost-effective for them. That's why they made the decision to take it."
"The solution requires an annual license. There is room for improvement because it is priced for organizations and not for individuals. For an individual, it would be too expensive for them to use it."
"The product is pretty expensive but reasonable."
"It is an expensive solution."
"Celonis is expensive, but it is functional."
"Celonis is the most expensive solution in the market"
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ABBYY Timeline is a cloud-based, AI-driven process mining tool. Using the latest artificial intelligence (AI) technology, ABBYY Timeline automatically builds an interactive digital twin of your business processes, analyzes them in real time to identify bottlenecks, and predicts future outcomes to facilitate better decision-making.
Why use process mining & task mining?
✔ End-to-end process visualization: Visualize the flow of your work through the process stages and see the delays, bottlenecks, and outliers. Gain insight into your “as-is” customer processes to understand challenges.
✔ Compliance risk management: Simplify compliance by using audit trails to build a model of your process and reason against it. Receive alerts when rules set in place are broken and follow up immediately to ensure that it won’t happen again.
✔ Greater ROI from automation: Drive down the cost of process evaluation and make it easy to identify high-value improvement opportunities. Discover the most valuable opportunities to implement RPA or automatically monitor the performance of your existing RPA processes.
✔ Accurate, un-biased data: Before, process mining relied on subject matter experts. Now, process mining software gives decision-makers facts and figures from real-time event log data to back up their decisions by serving as an irrefutable source of truth.
How Timeline process mining works
In four steps, discover and visualize process execution details automatically by leveraging artificial intelligence to examine desktop user interaction (known as task mining) or by analyzing your existing data (known as process mining) to quickly identify opportunities for improvement, monitor ongoing performance in real-time, and predict future outcomes.
Celonis is the global leader in execution management. Powered by its process mining core, Celonis has evolved from its beginnings as a Process Mining company into an execution management pioneer, enabling companies to unlock execution capacity and perform at full potential. Celonis offers advanced technology in data execution, combining real-time process data, the intelligence to make sense of that data, and the execution capacity to take immediate, decisive action. Celonis’ Execution Management System makes data work for its customers by identifying inefficiencies and weaving interconnected processes together – thereby eliminating billions in corporate inefficiencies, empowering better business decisions and triggering the right actions automatically. Celonis is headquartered in Munich, Germany and New York City, USA and has 15 offices worldwide.
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