Microsoft Copilot and Celonis cut 27 days off hiring at Uniper.
Uniper, a German energy company of roughly 7,000 people, has fed Celonis' Context Model into Microsoft Copilot Studio and put an HR agent inside Microsoft Teams, diginomica reported on Wednesday.
Uniper reported that average time-to-sign for candidates fell by 27 days, and the screening phase by 13 days.
In one example cited by diginomica, the agent identified 27 candidates who had been sitting on shortlists for more than 14 days.
Robert Daamen, Head of Process Intelligence at Uniper's Center of Excellence, gave the reason it worked at all: "AI as a standalone solution is quite limited." The model did not know the process. The process data did.
Daamen also said the existing Microsoft agreement covered the deployment with no extra negotiation and no extra cost.
Laurids Lanzendoerfer, Head of Talent Acquisition, said candidate contact and selection stayed with people: "We are not doing: no agent is talking to people, no agent is selecting people."
Read plainly, this is queue-ageing detection with a human deciding. The architecture question underneath it is which system stays the record and whether the agent may write back.
Can your agents see your process data, or only your documents?
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For your next steering committee
- 1Ask which AI tools already touch your ERP or finance data, including the ones nobody approved.
- 2Ask what each tool is allowed to change, and who reviews what it changed.
- 3Ask how the result is measured, and who decides to switch a tool off.
Issue 01 of the ERP LEADERS brief puts a timeline, the three-number review and six questions on one page. Read issue 01
Welcome back. · Issue 01