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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Tags: , Appian Forum, Appian World 2013, BPM certification, BPM software, Center of Excellence, Training

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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Tags: , Appian, Appian Forum, BPM certification, Business Process Management

Happy New Year!

Appian is kicking off 2011 with another Tips and Tricks webinar covering Integration Best Practices on January 12th, 2011 at Noon EST.

Registration is available on Appian Forum.

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Tags: , Appian 6, Appian Forum, BPM, Integration, Tips and Tricks

I’m happy to announce the latest release of Appian 6.

Appian Forum members, please join us on December 9th at Noon EST to review the latest features of Appian 6 and updates to the Appian Forum customer support site.

This version of Appian first represents a continuation of Appian’s commitment to deliver a highly scalable and responsive process development environment based on the latest industry standards.  In addition, we have initiated our first release of the Appian Tempo project, bringing an entirely new perspective on process participation.

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Tags: , Appian, Appian 6, Appian Cloud, Appian Forum, BPM, Forrester

The past 6 months have been some of the most exciting times for Appian on all fronts, from dramatic market consolidation, to amazing customer growth for Appian.  It seems this cycle of success for Appian really kicked off with the release of Appian’s most powerful BPM platform yet, Appian 6.  Appian 6 has dramatically accelerated the speed customers can deploy and manage their BPM applications and improve their enterprise processes.  With innovative features like fit-for-purpose BPM dashboards and one-click deployment of BPM applications, customers who have migrated from Appian 5 to Appian 6 have raved about the benefits and accelerated process improvement they have received after upgrading.

After Appian 6 was released, Appian committed itself to change the way we delivered software.  As our SaaS business has grown, Appian has changed to the development methodology of a SaaS company.  This means, rapid releases, effortless upgrades, and a continuous stream of new features being introduced into the platform.  The pace of innovation at Appian has tripled since the release of Appian 6 and the features in our pipeline are guaranteed to shake-up the BPM market.  As other BPM vendors are looking to cash out and leave their customers holding the bag, Appian is “throwing down the gauntlet” to the competition, challenging them to match Appian in innovation and customer success.

With that note, Appian has made available the latest version of Appian 6 for download from Appian Forum.  Appian Anywhere customers using the Appian SaaS service will be upgraded automatically to the latest version of Appian. More »

Tags: , Appian 6, Appian Cloud, Appian Forum, BPM, Business Process Management, SaaS BPM

There’s a lot of discussion right now about applying Lean principles to BPM initiatives – and for good reason. BPM is about removing waste across the enterprise and maximizing all facets of performance, ultimately to enhance the delivery of goods, services and support to customers. Lean is a philosophy and methodology for creating maximum value with less work, originating from the base notion that anything that doesn’t directly add customer value is wasteful. More »

Tags: , Appian 6, Appian Forum, BPM, Business Process Management, Forrester, Lean BPM

Appian is ready to help your business succeed in 2010. The more than 300 attendees who joined us for the recent Appian FORUM09 conference heard two BPM luminaries share their thoughts on what matters for the future of BPM. Gartner’s Jim Sinur talked about “OpTempo” (accelerating operations to increase your ability to respond to changing business patterns), and Forrester’s Clay Richardson outlined the importance of Lean BPM – and how to make it a reality. Attendees also saw first-hand that Appian is delivering the technology, methodology and community required to turn both of those important ideas into business value.  More »

Tags: , Appian 6, Appian Forum, BPM, Forrester, Gartner

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.  More »

Tags: , Appian Forum, Forrester, MEGA

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 to say, a lot of planning and effort goes into these events to ensure their success.  Appian started the planning process in December, 2007 with site visits of potential locations, lining up agendas, and selecting the best dates that will drive the most attendance.   More »

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