Gartner, Inc. recently published a Top 10 CIO Business & Technology Priorities in 2013 list. It’s interesting to note that BPM can address and achieve all top ten business priorities, when implemented with the right technologies and methodologies. The green check mark next to each Business priority indicates that BPM can help accomplish this goal.

The check mark next to each Technology priority signifies a match with Appian BPM Suite‘s capabilities: either as part of the product or as a solution. Furthermore, the worksocial approach from Appian is essentially taking collaboration technologies with workflow BPM (#4), enabling greater access of data and analytics (#1) to all users via mobile technologies (#2), available in the cloud (#3) or on-premise.

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The number of emails, documents, files, and content we come across seems to grow every day. Today’s knowledge workers need a way to organize, search, and access information quickly and easily. The ability to gather data and insight enables productivity, better and faster client service, higher job satisfaction, and more revenue for the company. Furthermore, following standard processes, having the flexibility to make changes and accommodate exceptions, and being able to collaborate are requirements for a modern, agile workplace with consistency and quality

 
Skilled workers like lawyers, doctors, nurses, case workers, recruiters, account managers, and executives are examples of today’s knowledge workers who need access to information to provide quality service. They need to easily find all the documents, correspondence, and key information on clients, patients, prospects, partners, or accounts to make critical decisions, take actions, and accomplish business goals. More »

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Last week’s Gartner Symposium and ITxpo attracted over 10,000 attendees and far exceeded original estimate of 8,000 attendees. “The world’s most important gathering of CIOs and Senior IT Executives”, according to Gartner, featured a Focus. Connect. Lead theme. Appian sponsored the event and talked to hundreds of attendees on how worksocial can help achieve these goals and drive business results.

>>Register for the free Appian worksocial webinar today.

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Today’s modern enterprises need to be agile and dynamic to stay ahead of the global competitive curve. The wave of social, mobile, analytics, and cloud innovations lead to consumerization of IT and faster user adoption. An intelligent Business Process Management Suite (iBPMS) provides the foundation to achieve operational excellence and accelerate business innovation.

Appian, the market leader in modern Business Process Management software, is positioned in the “Leaders” quadrant in the 2012 “Magic Quadrant for Intelligent Business Process Management Suites” by Gartner, Inc. According to the report, “An iBPMS expands the traditional BPMS by adding the new functionality needed to support Intelligent Business Operations (IBO), such as real-time business analytics, deep complex-event processing (CEP), social media to support social behavior and collaboration, and expanded technologies to support growing requirements for mobility.”

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Confused by industry jargon? Previous posts on this topic went through the evolution of workflow, Business Process Management, and Business Process Management Suite software using a simple mobile phone maturity life cycle analogy. This post wraps up the series and brings us to where we are today with these technologies.

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Every now and then, the question on what is the difference between workflow and Business Process Management (BPM) will surface. This is not a new question and it is worth revisiting. So this blog post is dedicated to rehashing the similarities and differences between these concepts.

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The Blob has been with us a long time.  It emerged a long time ago, from the bowels of a developers mind to ease performance in a distributed environment and I/O throughput.  But slowly, it has grown, taken over our data, engulfed our hard drives, and locked us into proprietary Blob formats.

Amazingly, customers still willfully adopt BPM and Case Management solutions that liberally use Blob data storage.  And when they realize their data is inaccessible, unsearchable, and un-reportable, they are forced to purchase proprietary extractors just so they can report on the data they already own. More »

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Among other reasons, Apple’s successful entry into the mobile market is largely due to designing and delivering an intuitive, intelligent, and mobile computing device into the hands of consumers. Although smartphones have been around since the early 90s, Apple unleashed the next generation of smarter, more intelligent phones that are also fun and easy to use.

The Business Process Management (BPM) market is also going through an evolution. The idea behind an intelligent BPM Suite (iBPMS) is that the BPMS as we know it needs to evolve and incorporate modern technologies to meet skyrocketing data consumption needs and an increasingly global, mobile, and tech savvy workforce.

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