Celonis Product Documentation

You can think of an Exploration as a guided journey to drill into a business process. The journey is a series of questions and answers about the process. Depending on the questions you pick, you can arrive at different destinations, giving you a powerful understanding of how you can drive process improvements.

You start your Exploration journey by clicking Business Miner from the left-hand navigation in Celonis Platform and selecting a Process Workspace. Click Create Explorations to see a list of questions tailored to a specific business process. Simply choose a question that interests you and we'll display the answer for your organization.About Process Workspaces

Answering related, but more detailed, questions lets you dig deeper into your process and data. Along the way, you can also tweak some of the default values used by Business Miner so your results better reflect how your organization actually works.

The types of information displayed in your Exploration depend on the process type and the questions you choose. All Explorations include:

If you create a Process Workspace and want to collaborate with your colleagues, you will need to invite them to explore your process. You can invite users to an Exploration by clicking the Share button in one of two places:

From within the Exploration:

On the Explore page:

You can also share with users who are not currently members of your team, but this type of external sharing requires approval from a team Admin.

Your colleagues can view your Explorations if they can access the Process Workspaces where they’re stored. But if you want to collaborate with colleagues about something you found in an Exploration, you should use an Insight. An Insight shows a snapshot of the Exploration and ensures you and your colleagues are all looking at exactly the same data.

For example, say your organization’s invoice data changes because the data for the latest month is now available. If you previously created an Exploration that uses invoice data, the data values in that Exploration will also have changed when you revisit it.