Celonis Recognized as Winner of 2026 Microsoft Global ISV Partner of the Year

MUNICH and NEW YORK, November 11, 2026 - Celonis, the Enterprise AI company that specializes in reinventing business operations, today announced it has won the Global ISV 2026 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology.

"Almost every company is using AI. Very few are getting real returns," said Marc Kinast, Senior Vice President Corporate Development at Celonis. "That gap isn't about the model. It's about redesigning your processes from the ground up with AI you can rely on. Microsoft brings trusted cloud and AI technologies. Celonis brings the platform people trust to transform and improve operations. Together, we're helping companies reinvent the way they work."

The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards celebrate partners delivering exceptional customer outcomes through Microsoft Cloud, AI, services, and devices. This year's winners and finalists were selected from more than 4,500 nominations submitted worldwide across a diverse range of categories and geographies. Celonis was recognized for providing outstanding solutions and services in Global ISV.

"Congratulations to the winners and finalists of the 2026 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards, said Nicole Dezen, Chief Partner Officer and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft. "This year's honorees are harnessing the power of Microsoft Cloud and AI to deliver transformative solutions, accelerate customer success, and expand what's possible. Their ingenuity and impact inspire us, demonstrating what can be achieved when bold vision and technology come together to empower organizations around the world."

When Microsoft launched Microsoft Agent 365 in May 2026, Celonis was a launch partner. Agent 365 gives companies one place to observe, secure, and govern every AI agent across their organization, and Celonis adds insight into the reasoning behind each agent decision and the business impact it delivers. Agent 365 users can track that impact in real time, with Celonis tying KPI improvements such as lower cost per claim or faster cycle times to individual agents. The integration also flags costly "ghost loops," such as one agent merging purchase orders while another splits them, so teams can halt or adjust the agents involved through Agent 365. As a result, companies can see which agents are worth scaling and grow their agent programs with confidence.

Companies in every industry use the Celonis Platform to transform and continuously improve operations. At the heart of the platform is the Context Model, a living representation of each business, built from its operational reality and connected to its strategy. Around this model, the Platform offers capabilities to analyze, design, and operate agentified processes. And because the platform is open, customers can use the operational intelligence from Celonis in the Microsoft solutions they use every day.

For example, Uniper, a European energy company with global reach, uses an agent powered by the Celonis Context Model and built on Microsoft Copilot Studio to improve its HR process.

"Celonis and Microsoft are helping us build AI assistants that our people can depend on," said Robert Daamen, Head of Process Intelligence CoE at Uniper. "In HR, Celonis gives our AI the context it needs to understand how our hiring process works today, while Microsoft helps lower the barriers to using combined data analytics, process mining, automation and AI. Together, they enable us to make the HR recruiting process more efficient, more reliable, and fully transparent."

The 2026 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards are announced ahead of Microsoft Ignite, which will be held in San Francisco from November 17-20. Additional details on the 2026 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards are available on the Microsoft Partner blog. The complete list of categories, winners and finalists can be found here.

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