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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The term “Disruptive BPM” has been used quite a lot and you see this term floating around the inter-web in recent years. I have been contemplating about this potentially controversial topic for over a year now. In this blog series we’ll explore the notion that it is actually a good idea that the “BPM world” should be disrupted. And in saying that, I do not mean in the traditional sense of the term “Disruptive Technologies”, like how Apple disrupted the music industry with iPods and iTunes. No, I mean apocalyptical disruption in the very fabric of all so called BPM practitioners’ thinking and all so called BPM technologists’ ideas of the same topic.

And in doing so, I hope it defines what disruptive BPM should look like in both cultural and technological aspects and how we can brace for this Tsunami through solutions like Appian. Within an organization’s context, I hope to discuss why BPM, in its traditional sense, would and should be disrupted with technologies like Appian within both Business and IT areas. In short, bracing for BPM disruption can be achieved by knowing, acknowledging and embracing innovative BPMS technology, and in turn, harnessing them as the key catalyst for revolutionary changes within the organization, to reach places where traditionalist BPM-practitioners have never been before. More »

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According to Forrester, 90% of organizations will support corporate applications on personal devices by 2014. Furthermore, mobile devices will surpass PCs to become the majority of devices used for work (Forrester, “Tablets Will Rule the Future Personal Computing Landscape”, April 2012). If your organization has not already started formulating or implementing a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) strategy and mobile-enable enterprise applications, the time is now.

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Appian’s Center of Excellence (CoE), part of our Professional Services offerings, provides on-going services to impart governance and best practices related to Appian BPM deployments. Ultimately, our CoE’s mission is to support the BPM knowledge transfer that makes our customers and partners self-sufficient in driving their own BPM programs.

This week the Appian CoE is releasing an update to its best practices regarding organization and management of applications built on Appian. The new set of guidelines are part of the Change and Configuration Management track of Appian’s proven STAR methodology (Strategize, Transform, Actualize and Rollout). They outline the differences between managing a code base in a custom application and Appian’s Application objects. These guidelines have been compiled from experiences and data our Professional Services team has collected over numerous engagements of varying sizes and complexities.

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This week the Appian Center of Excellence (CoE) is releasing the first in a series of case studies focused on mobile enablement. Over the next several months we’ll highlight proven strategies and techniques to design or enhance your business applications to leverage the power of Appian’s worksocial capabilities on a mobile device. With scenarios pulled from common customer use cases and design approaches based on Appian best-practices, these case studies will have you “going mobile” in no time!

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Last week’s blog post compared workflow to older generations of cellular phones that route data, connect people to systems and to people. Similar to how smart phones from the 90s combine phone and Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) functions, Business Process Management (BPM) brings together process methodologies and technologies as a management approach to continuously improve processes and achieve organizational objectives. Like the evolution of mobile phones, BPM continues to evolve. Let us continue the mobile phone analogy and take a look at what comes after BPM: BPM Suite.

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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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Appian is a proud sponsor of CXO Media’s “CIO Perspectives” conference series. Today, we’ll be at CIO Perspectives Boston.  CIO Perspectives meetings, which are one-day executive events for senior IT leaders at mid- to large-sized organizations in the private and public sectors, always provide compelling, content-rich networking where CIOs and senior executives can collaborate on business and technology issues.

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Do you wish to develop and deploy software applications faster? Are you often frustrated that software features and functions delivered don’t meet requirements or your expectations? Do you want to collaborate more frequently with line of business and technology stakeholders to achieve better project results? Do you wish for faster response and the ability to change as new requirements come up?If you answered yes to any question above, we have just the right webinar for you. Whether you are new to BPM, to development, to the project, or just want to learn about best practices to achieve rapid results through a collaborative, iterative approach to managing projects and programs, you will benefit from agile development.

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