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Michaël Durieux
Director & Partner, SAP Process Mining expert
By Michaël Durieux, published 7 October 2026
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- SAP Signavio and Celonis are both Leaders in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Process Mining Platforms (2025) and in the Magic Quadrant for Process Intelligence Platforms (May 2026).
- SAP Signavio is a complete process management suite, integrated with SAP and the RISE with SAP offerings.
- Celonis focuses on a platform independent of source systems and on object-centric process mining.
- The right choice depends on the weight of SAP in your landscape and on how the results will be used.
Key takeaways
01
Two philosophies
A complete, SAP-native BPM suite on one side; a Process Intelligence Graph and AI agents on the other.
02
Watch data access
Celonis sued SAP in March 2025: check your SAP contracts before choosing a third-party tool.
03
Choose by context
SAP landscape, RISE or BPMN needs: Signavio.
Highly heterogeneous landscape: evaluate Celonis.
04
A four-step pilot
Priority process, extraction, dashboards, quantified gains, on the same dataset.
Sources: SAP News (April 2025), Celonis, Automation Today (May 2026), TechTarget (March 2025)