A big thank you needs to go out to all those who attended the Appian Forum.  This was certainly a milestone event in the history of Appian and a fantastic education and networking event in building your BPM practice.  More »

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I’ve been waiting to blog about our partnership with Mega for a few weeks now.  We at Appian have been very busy with our recent Appian Forum event and Gartner BPM Show, and with those events behind us, there are many topics to catch up on.

The Appian / Mega partnership is an exciting relationship that provides an unmatched value proposition to the BPM market.  Mega has lead the way in Business Process Analysis and Enterprise Architecture tools while Appian is the innovation leader in Business Process Management in the execution and management of enterprise processes.  Binding these products together will provide unmatched capability in modeling, analysis, simulation, execution, and management of processes.

We’ll disclose more details as the integration evolves, but suffice to say, it goes far beyond what has ever been attempted before in integrating a BPA and BPM tool together.   The partnership will close the gap on round-trip modeling, execution and analysis.  Furthmore, it will raise the bar in change management and architecture for all application platforms.

Look for an upcoming webinar in Q4/2008 that will highlight the partnership and integration between the two products.

Malcolm Ross

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Another member of Appian’s professional services organization, Medhat Galal, was chosen to provide insight for DM Review on an article entitled Centers of Excellence: The Path to Process Innovation Success.  In this article Medhat provides great insight in why organizations need a CoE to compliment any BPM initiative.  He also covers defining a CoE and setting up it’s basic framework.

If you are pursuing your first project, I highly recommend this quick read on BPM Centers of Excellence.

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