In case you missed the recent press release and notifications on Appian Forum, Appian  just released a number of major architectural improvement to the Appian platform.  This is an exciting release for customers who want to integrate and persist their data in the enterprise data repository of their choice and build process solutions that scale to massive size.

The latest Appian Tips & Tricks webinar will again feature myself and Brett Shomaker, our Group Technology Program Manager, walking through all the new features and giving a demonstration of the new data management capabilities.  Please register here or on Appian Forum if you would like to attend.

Appian Tips & Tricks webinar will be held on Thursday, September 16th, 12 PM to 1 PM EST.  Live questions will be handled during the call. 

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Big news today for government agencies that are looking into cloud computing. The Dept. of Education has issued an Authority to Operate (ATO) certification for its Appian Anywhere process solution built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This is the first cloud-based business process management solution to be given an ATO by a federal agency. Its significance extends well beyond the Dept. of Education, because it assures other departments and agencies that Appian running on AWS meets the stringent requirements for federal information systems.

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Forrester Research has just published “The Forrester Wave™: Business Process Management Suites, Q3 2010,” and Appian has been named a Leader. Forrester is strict about the language vendors can use in describing their relative positioning, so I’ll just say we are very pleased with our placement. Take a look at the report and decide for yourself how the top rankings play out.

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It’s great to see all the discussion on Case Management.  As Craig Le Clair and Connie Moore from Forrester put it last December, this truly is an Old Idea that is Catching New Fire.  Not many people would have predicted that “Case Management” would have received this much discussion 2 years ago, but the rapid convergence of social “un-structured” work with business process management has forced many people to consider new flexible solutions.

The latest post on this topic is from psHealth, a company with real experience applying Case Management solutions to the Healthcare industry.  The topic centers around “Case Management System Design Challenges”, which is a great follow-on to some previous posts on “The Technical Case for Case Management“.

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Six Sigma IQ has a great article from John Jarrett, director of BPM at AGF Trust talking about implementing enterprise-wide BPM. AGF Trust is an Appian customer using our platform across six product lines and multiple departments. Their BPM Program touches numerous functional areas within the investment management firm, including Client Services, Finance, Funding Teams, Ongoing Administration, and Underwriting.

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Please join us tomorrow, July 22nd at Noon EST for a live discussion with CEO, Matthew Calkins, Director of Product Management, Malcolm Ross, and guest speaker Matt Brook, Head of Infrastructure at Pinnacle People.  We have some exciting news to share with the Appian community on the latest growth figures for Appian, new product features around Data Management, and a great success story by Matt Brook from Pinnacle People.

Registration is open on Appian Forum for all Appian customers and partners.

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Appian has reported another six months of strong performance in the first half of 2010. In that time, we signed 28 new-name customers. This is a company record, and it far outpaces anything we have seen reported for competitor BPM offerings across a 6-month period. New customer acquisition drove 58% and 43% sequential quarterly bookings growth (Q1 10 over Q4 09, and Q2 10 over Q1 10, respectively). At a time when global economies remain tight, and corporate budgets even tighter, Appian is selling what people are willing to pay for: fast, high-impact results.

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As the leader in “BPM for Government,” Appian has a bird’s eye view of that market’s accelerated growth. The latest example is this morning’s announcement of a significant Appian contract win with the Dept. of Treasury/Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). It is a multi-million dollar award for a Case Management application for Security Processing.

The federal government is increasingly looking to BPM to solve process issues, like Security Processing, that are of broad applicability across agencies and departments.

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The demand for BPM-based Dynamic Case Management solutions in the healthcare industry continues to grow. The fact is, using BPM software raises the level of patient care and supports better health outcomes. It does this by enabling more efficient patient on-boarding and administrative management, faster and more effective diagnosis, increased collaboration between treatment professionals, and improved processing of the back-office/financial aspects of the healthcare business.

We’ve seen these positive impacts through cutting-edge Appian case management deployments with customers like the Benenden Healthcare Society, the U.S. Army’s Wounded Warrior application, and many others. We are now very excited to announce a new development: Appian partner psHEALTH is leveraging our Appian Anywhere SaaS BPM platform to rapidly develop and deliver new case management solutions for its healthcare clients.

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AnyDoc Software, a leading provider of automated document, data capture, and classification solutions, and Appian, the global innovator in enterprise and on-demand business process management (BPM) technology, today announced that AnyDoc will develop and deliver the next generation of document processing solutions by combining AnyDoc’s industry-leading document processing technologies with the Appian BPM platform. Through the partnership, AnyDoc will leverage Appian’s 100 percent web architecture and powerful process, task, and data orchestration to help customers automate and manage the end-to-end workflow for both structured and unstructured documents and data.

“Utilizing Appian’s powerful yet easy-to-use BPM platform within our already robust product line will help our customers achieve optimal efficiency in daily tasks, and provide management teams with the tools to view the health of their organization at the department or corporate level,” said Samuel Schrage, President of AnyDoc Software. “Capturing your business processes and decision data from the time it enters your organization, monitoring its progression, and having it available immediately at a lower cost provides companies with great advantages. Real-time status of overall business processes with a highlight on exceptions, approvals, and related activities keeps executive management responsive to the pulse of the company.”

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