Appian Corporation is the first business process management company to deliver advanced process, knowledge, and analytics capabilities in a flexible, fully-integrated suite. As the industry’s only true enterprise-class BPM suite, Appian Enterprise is driving improvements in business performance by reaching into existing IT assets, extending those assets by applying knowledge and analytics functionality, and delivering real-time, dashboard-style operational and business metrics.
Appian's award-winning software aligns business strategy and execution to deliver greater visibility into and control over strategic business processes.
Appian Enterprise features:
- Web-based Process Designer
Appian delivers the industry’s only 100% HTML-based, drag and drop process designer, providing business users with an intuitive, Web-based visual environment for building, sharing, and reusing process objects and models, including Web services, without any coding.
- Integrated Knowledge Management Capabilities
Appian Enterprise’s flexible, process-centric portal technology provides a centralized Web-based resource for information access and collaboration, thereby accelerating application development. Appian Enterprise also features a comprehensive collaborative toolset and integrated knowledge and data management features.
- Advanced Analytics
Appian Enterprise allows organizations to detect and react to business changes in real-time. Using Appian’s standard reports, organizations can identify bottlenecks, distribute tasks and improve processes. Moreover, users can create and save customized dashboards to provide personalized visibility into specific business areas.
- Dynamic Transformation
Appian Enterprise’s sophisticated process engine allows real-time, in-flight adjustments to running business processes. As business environments change, policies, process flows, and tasks can be added, modified, or removed to handle exceptions using Appian’s unique Smart Node™ technology.
- Integrated Security
Appian Enterprise utilizes a highly granular, integrated personalization and security framework to provide a secure, Web-based environment for managing preferences, attributes, and relationships between people and information. Fully integrated into the process, it can be secured and delegated remotely.
- Unparalleled Scalability
Appian Enterprise has consistently proven itself to be the industry’s most scalable business process execution system, utilizing high-performance, in-memory technology that scales to support the largest enterprises, including the U.S. Army with 1.7 million users. Appian Enterprise also features a consistent process management and security layer that spans the entire enterprise.
- Enhanced Support for Web Services and SOA
Appian Enterprise is based on a service-oriented design, allowing seamless integration of an organization’s internal business services.
- Standards Support
Appian Enterprise supports emerging process modeling standards such as BPMN, as well as a wide range of Web services standards including SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, and XML. The power of Appian Enterprise can also be incorporated into existing portal applications through JSR-168 portlets.
Founded in 1999, Appian is headquartered in Vienna, VA, and has received numerous accolades and awards for technology and business leadership. In addition to being named to the 2004 Inc. 500 list, Appian was recognized as a 2003 Rising Star in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50, CIO Magazine’s 2003 Top 50 Web Business, and Federal Computer Week’s Ten Hot Companies to Watch in 2003. Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations are using Appian’s full-featured, process-centric platform to deploy powerful business solutions across their entire enterprise.
