http://www.appian.com/blog Appian BPM Blog – Be Part of the Process Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:20:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en First.. pardon my absence from the blogging scene for the past month.  I've had my hands full with my new daughter, Maddie..   Not to bring up "Joe the Plumber" again, one month after the election, but I'd like to take a minute to highlight how "Sharing the Wealth" among Appian users ... http://www.appian.com/blog/2008/12/02/sharing-the-wealth Appian was the sole BPM vendor sponsor at the recent Gartner Symposium/ITxpo. We were there because, as I noted in a previous post, we believe that BPM technology is a powerful remedy for the competing challenges facing IT: developing and deploying new business-driving services, while also fighting the fires to ... http://www.appian.com/blog/2008/10/27/gartner%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cmost-contentious-it-issues%e2%80%9d IT departments are tasked with two primary, and sometimes competing, objectives. The first, driven by executive management, is to make IT transformative to the business through new and innovative services. The second, driven by the realities of complex technology infrastructures, is to fight the daily fires and do the maintenance ... http://www.appian.com/blog/2008/10/03/the-business-of-it-delivering-transformative-services-requires-process-improvement A big thank you needs to go out to all those who attended the Appian Forum.  This was certainly a milestone event in the history of Appian and a fantastic education and networking event in building your BPM practice.  The Appian Forum was kicked off by Forrester Vice President and Research ... http://www.appian.com/blog/2008/09/15/appian-forum-wrap-up I've been waiting to blog about our partnership with Mega for a few weeks now.  We at Appian have been very busy with our recent Appian Forum event and Gartner BPM Show, and with those events behind us, there are many topics to catch up on. The Appian / Mega partnership ... http://www.appian.com/blog/2008/09/15/appian-mega-partnership Another member of Appian's professional services organization, Medhat Galal, was chosen to provide insight for DM Review on an article entitled Centers of Excellence: The Path to Process Innovation Success.  In this article Medhat provides great insight in why organizations need a CoE to compliment any BPM initiative.  He also covers ... http://www.appian.com/blog/2008/09/15/more-on-bpm-centers-of-excellence Many organizations ask leading BPM companies like Appian how to really enforce process change and focus on process throughout their organization.  We continuously drive our customers towards what we call a Center of Excellence around business process management.  We have seen many organizations adopt variations of this approach and even seeing ... http://www.appian.com/blog/2008/08/26/bpm-centers-of-excellence We at Appian are very excited to be hosting our first annual Appian Forum, our global user conference.  We set high goals for ourselves in attendance and quality of presenations, and so far have been exceeding those goals.  If you have never been involved with organizing a global user conference, suffice ... http://www.appian.com/blog/2008/08/18/appian-forum Appian is pleased to make available this BPM blog to share insight on the Appian product, thoughts on the business process management market, implementation best practices, and BPM success stories. We plan to update this blog regularly with information readers will find useful in planning their own BPM implementations.    This blog will ... http://www.appian.com/blog/2008/08/12/appian-insight-bpm-blog