Appian Training App Makes Attaining BPM Excellence Easier Than Ever

Appian Academy provides the industry’s most comprehensive training courses for BPM software. And now we’ve made it easier than ever to get your BPM education started, or take your skills to the next level. With our new Appian Training application, you can view, select and enroll in the Appian Academy training course of your choosing using the product you will soon master!

Online enrollment is nothing new for the Academy, but building it on the powerful work automation capabilities of the Appian platform gives you easy control over every aspect of enrollment for yourself, or your entire team – from your desktop or your mobile device.

Straight from your Appian Forum account, you can launch the new application (select “Appian Training” under Actions).

You’ll then see the full roster of available courses, where and when they are offered, and their duration.

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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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2013 will be the year that employees begin to use mobile devices more than PCs to get work done (Forrester, “Tablets Will Rule the Future Personal Computing Landscape”, April 2012). To get ahead of this wave, it’s vital that any new application deployed to users be fully mobile-enabled. Appian provides a mobile enterprise platform for knowledge workers to access key data, reports, tasks and actions from their mobile device so they can do real work and see timely results on the go.

Recognizing the need to go mobile is easy; however, understanding how to implement that vision is not always immediately obvious. To help customers understand how a mobile-enabled application looks and behaves, Appian has released a new Reference Application focused around the mobile user.

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We are pleased to announce that the Appian Certified Plugin Developer (ACPD) program is now available on Appian Forum. The ACPD exam includes concepts covered in the Appian Essentials, Appian Process Design, and Appian Developer training courses. In advance of Appian World 2013, we are extending the low certification cost of $349 through May.

An Appian Certification accreditation provides a signal to the market that sets you apart from the crowd. Custom plugins and data types are the cornerstone of Appian’s integration framework and your ACPD certification proves that you are able to tackle your customers’ most challenging integration requirements. Customers who become Appian Certified deliver higher ROI to their organizations and help ensure the success of their projects. Partner organizations with Appian Certified professionals win more deals and command higher premiums.

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We are always working to enhance Appian Academy social business process management training options for our customers and partners. Appian Academy quickly builds BPM skills, improves employee productivity and maximizes the value of a business process management program through our comprehensive custom and instructor-led BPM courses on Appian products, methodology and certification at affordable prices. In addition to our existing on-site and on-demand options, we have developed two new exciting offerings: live online training and a new course to introduce Appian users to the basics of creating and using worksocial applications.

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In preparation for Appian World 2012, and for a limited time only, the price for the Appian Certified Application Designer exam has been reduced to $349.

The Appian Certification Program allows individuals to demonstrate they have the required skills to successfully deliver Appian applications with high quality and according to Appian best practices. The certification validates that participants have a thorough understanding of how to build process-based applications in the Appian environment, including designing the application, data types, process models, forms, reports and dashboards.

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