Experience the power and simplicity of worksocial at Appian World. We created a mobile conference application to help you maximize your time, interact with presenters and attendees, and share your experience at our premier BPM conference. The Appian mobile app allows conference attendees to participate from a mobile device, easily access the following information and more from their fingertips:

• Venue and Travel Information
• Twitter Updates
• Conference Agenda
• Session & Conference Feedback
• Share Your Experience with Multimedia
• Online Collaboration

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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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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 »

Tags: , Appian World, Appian World 2013, Developer, Training

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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The thing parents keep telling their kids about the internet – about how once you put something up, it never goes away – is equally good advice for all of us. That Wayback Machine never forgets. A trip through the BPM software world of the internet archives is an interesting thing, because it shows what a difference a corporate acquisition can make in someone’s opinions. Let’s hop in the machine and take a little trip:

“Today one of our customers said they were told by IBM: “why spend your money with Lombardi, we’ll give you our BPMS for free.” I finally agree 100% with IBM on something: their BPMS is worth nothing. Getting a cheap BPMS is like buying a dancing elephant for a dollar: cool, but who can afford to feed it?”

That’s Phil Gilbert talking. Or rather, Phil Gilbert back when he was president and CTO of Lombardi. Today’s Phil Gilbert is head of BPM at IBM. Say it again, Phil: “Their BPMS is worth nothing.”

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Tags: , BPM, Business Process Management, IBM, Lombardi, WebSphere

When Appian released our last iOS update, we added the capability to capture images directly from a mobile device and submit as part of an Appian task or form.  The feedback was overwhelmingly positive as customer began to imagine the many use cases inside their business, but the most immediate response was “What about voice capture?”

Well just a few weeks later, we’ve been able to add another update to our Mobile BPM offering that includes voice capture and playback directly inside an Appian task or form.

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We had our quarterly company meeting yesterday. Everyone was in a pretty good mood based on our success in the first half of the year. As usual, our executive team did a great job talking about numbers, goals and strategies. Our CEO Matt Calkins, however, spent most of his time on something much bigger. He talked to us about redefining Business Process Management by redefining BPM software – how it looks, what it does, and where it does it. By doing that, he said, we will change the very nature of how organizations operate and how work gets done.

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I’ve been speaking with many clients and analysts over the past several months discussing what exactly is this “social” thing inside the enterprise.  I’ve heard from some analysts that social is not really a market, but just a feature that could be applied to several areas inside the enterprise.  While many clients are just asking  ”How will social inside my enterprise help my business?”

To get some answers we need to look at consumer trends in social platform adoption by asking a simple question:

“What are consumer social platforms replacing?”

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