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Posted on February 9th, 2011 by Matt Calkins
In December, when I vacationed in Costa Rica, I brought with me a secret. On my iPad and iPhone (I travel with both) I carried an app that integrated me back to my office better than anything I’d ever used. Its interface was a simple scrolling list, filtered to my preferences, of things happening at work. It included items for my approval, process alerts from various applications, messages from my employees, data reports and more. I could comment on any item and be sure those comments were heard by the right people. I could extract data from remote systems to draw my conclusions. I could fill forms and make approvals in every application in the enterprise. It was native – and beautiful – on all my mobile platforms.
It was the new Appian 6.5, code name Tempo.
It’s a revolution of new functionality, and because it is so novel it has undergone an unusually long testing and acceptance cycle. We’ve run our company on it for nearly six months now, and it’s been in development for more than a year. We took our time because in an uncertain market, we wanted to get the concept exactly right.
Our intention was to set the new standard for mobile and social BPM.
