First, we at Appian would like to thank everyone for attending Appian World last week. Every year the Appian World conference grows with exciting new case studies from new Appian customers and of course new features to learn in the ever evolving Appian platform.

If you missed Appian World 2013, we have made available keynote sessions and main session track presentations on the Appian YouTube account.

Coinciding with Appian World, Appian has announced Appian version 7.2.  Appian 7.2 continues to expand Appian’s leading capabilities in Mobile and Social BPM along with expanding user access to enterprise data and reports.  On May 16th Appian will be hosting a series of webinars in various locales to walk through each of the new features and changes in Appian 7.2.  This webinar is intended to provide administrators, designers, business analysts and end users using Appian a clear understanding of the Appian 7.2 release along with product demonstrations of key features. More »

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Appian’s global user conference continues to grow in depth and size each year, but this year we will need to start limiting access to key events due to the volume of early registrations.

Our pre-conference training sessions at Appian World are rapidly filling up and very soon there will be no seats available for key sessions.  We had planned to have 100 seats available for each of the 4 sessions, but set a hard cap at 120 per session based on max room capacity for a total of 480 potential seats for the pre-conference training.

As of today,  367 of those 480 seats (76% full) are spoken for with half of the sessions already exceeding the originally planned 100 seats.

The pre-conference training classes will be led by Appian product experts with detailed tutorials and guides on key aspects of Appian.  Topics and currently available seats include: More »

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Appian is very excited to again be hosting a presentation by EDP Renewables at Appian World 2013.  EDP is not only among the most innovative companies in the energy market today, but has utilized the Appian BPM platform in innovative ways to optimize their organizational efficiency.

In Appian World 2012, EDP shared a presentation on “Extreme Collaboration” and their use of Appian to drive dynamic task prioritization and increased collaboration in the repair and maintenance of wind turbines throughout North America.  If you missed last year’s presentation, full recordings are available on Appian’s YouTube channel. More »

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The Social Business Software (SBS) industry has come to a fork in the road.  All the cool features, collaborations, discussions, and status updates have reached their day of reckoning.  Chief executives are looking at their multi-million dollar technology investments in social business software and asking “What value is this bringing to my enterprise?”.

Unfortunately, the SBS industry is struggling to give a good answer.  Jive is claiming to have the best answer, proudly declaring that Jive customers achieve a 2-4% increase in revenue. This statement though reminds me of the Simpsons episode “Much Apu About Nothing”.  In the episode, the town of Springfield setups up a Bear Patrol, and bear sightings disappear.  Lisa tries to demonstrate the issue with their logic by offering Homer a Tiger Repelling Rock.  Homer quickly accepts the rock and determines the rock must be working as there are no tigers around.

And now Jive would like to use that same logic to imply their software leads directly to revenue generation, that correlation implies causation.

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Last year I put together these two videos to help those new to Appian quickly learn how to access the Appian Process Modeler and Appian Reporting.  These two areas of Appian are a fundamental part of Appian for both creating your initial process solutions and enabling continuous process improvement in your organization.  The Process Modeler and Reporting tools are both delivered as an intuitive web-based design environment for rapid creation of process solutions.

If you need to get up to speed quickly on these key components of Appian, then I hope you find the below video introductions useful.

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We are excited to be hosting the 4th global Appian user conference on April 29th – May 1st this year.  As our user conferences have grown, so have the features and capabilities of the Appian product offering.  With each new year, there are new design techniques, functions, architectures, and Smart Services to learn to maximize your organization’s use of Appian.

Appian has assembled a developer-centric session track for Appian World that highlights these new capabilities, best practices and developer success stories to educate Appian developers on how to deliver successful projects.   Developers will have an opportunity to learn how to employ new capabilities in their solutions, interact and ask questions from Appian product experts, and hear how other customers have developed and deployed successful Appian solutions.  Sessions include: More »

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The latest release of Appian’s business process management software.

We at Appian are excited to announce Appian 7 and invite all our customers, partners, and Appian Forum members to learn more about this release in an upcoming webinar. Appian 7 expands the boundaries of BPM, deeply integrating social and mobile capabilities to drive participation in more effective business processes, and faster, more informed business decisions.

Please register for one of our Appian 7 Product Announcement Webinars:

• Europe – 12 PM GMT, December 18th
• Americas – 12 PM EST, December 18th
• Australia – 12 PM AEDT, December 19th

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Mobile is one of the most important, exciting and challenging changes to happen to IT professionals in the past decade.  Not only does “Mobile” force IT professionals to learn new development platforms, but it changes the way applications are deployed, secured and even used with entirely new device capabilities not previously practical on PC devices.  If enterprises have not already incorporated “Mobile” into your current development and BPM projects, they are already behind the curve.

I will be exploring this topic further in an interesting BPM Radio event series with Clay Richardson of Forrester Research and Pramod Sachdeva of Princeton Blue on November 27th, at 12

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Appian is proud to announce the upcoming availability of the latest version of the Appian BPM Suite.

This release for Appian will add a large set of exciting new capabilities for end-users, designers and administrators for both cloud and on-premise customers of Appian.

Appian Forum members are invited to join us for an upcoming Product Announcement webinar for a in-depth review and demonstration of all of the new features and capabilities of this release.  Please register for one of the product announcement webinars that best fits your schedule

•  Europe - August 30th, 12 PM London Time (BST) https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/383135632
• Americas - August 30th, 12 PM Eastern Standard Time (ESTEDT) https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/649762864
• Asia, Australia, New Zealand - August 31st, 12 PM Sydney Time (AEST) https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/405904425 More »

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Ah, the cloud.  How abused of a term you have become over the past 10 years.  Originally the term “Cloud” evolved from IT network diagrams where engineers would just draw a big cloud shaped bubble to represent a network, whether internal, external, etc.  Now it represents more than just a network diagram, but a new philosophy for the development, management, upgrading, and distribution of software.  Unfortunately “Cloud”  has also become one of the most abused buzz words in enterprise IT, ushering in a stampede of cloud-washing smoke screens by every old legacy software company.

Clouds can come in many forms, but behind the scenes they embody properties that are unique to modern software delivery techniques, such as:

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