Using AI while maintaining control over your own data: That is the goal of the partnership between Celonis and Schwarz Digits, the IT and digital division of the Schwarz Group. Going forward, the Munich software company’s process intelligence platform will also be available on the Stackit cloud infrastructure, giving companies and organizations an additional option for running Celonis.
The offering is targeted in particular at customers with high demands regarding data security and digital sovereignty. These include public administration and the defense sector.
The Cloud Alone Does Not Make AI Effective
The partners are bringing together different building blocks: Stackit provides the cloud infrastructure, while Celonis provides the platform for analyzing, optimizing, and managing business processes.
The Celonis Context Model plays a key role here. It connects process data, corporate knowledge, and decision-making information into a digital twin of the enterprise. This is designed to give AI systems the context they need to understand and support business operations.
Florian Schewior, Managing Director at Celonis, says:
“Many companies and organizations need AI solutions that deliver economic value while simultaneously allowing them to maintain their digital sovereignty.”
The collaboration aims to combine these requirements. Schewior explains:
“Stackit provides a sovereign and powerful cloud infrastructure, and Celonis the platform that enables companies to deploy AI effectively.”
European Infrastructure as an Option
For Schwarz Digits, the partnership expands the range of data and AI platforms available on its own cloud. Together, the companies aim to help organizations deploy AI at scale while preserving their digital sovereignty.
Bernd Wagner, CSO of Schwarz Digits, emphasizes:
“The partnership with Celonis impressively demonstrates that European digital sovereignty and high capability and performance go hand in hand.”
Distribution is available immediately via three channels: directly through Celonis, via Stackit, and through joint partners. Celonis will also provide information on its offerings for public administration and the defense sector at the Public Sector Forum on October 29 in Berlin.
Celonis was founded in 2011 by Bastian Nominacher, Martin Klenk, and Alexander Rinke as a spin-off of TU München. With its process mining software, the company made business processes transparent and helped uncover weaknesses. In 2018, Celonis reached a valuation of more than one billion dollars, becoming a unicorn. The Munich startup evolved into an internationally active software company with headquarters in Munich and New York.
