Big news today for government agencies that are looking into cloud computing. The Dept. of Education has issued an Authority to Operate (ATO) certification for its Appian Anywhere process solution built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This is the first cloud-based business process management solution to be given an ATO by a federal agency. Its significance extends well beyond the Dept. of Education, because it assures other departments and agencies that Appian running on AWS meets the stringent requirements for federal information systems.

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Tags: , Appian, Appian Anywhere, ATO, Authority to Operate, BPM, BPM for Government, BPM in the Cloud, Business Process Management, FISMA, SaaS BPM

Forrester Research has just published “The Forrester Wave™: Business Process Management Suites, Q3 2010,” and Appian has been named a Leader. Forrester is strict about the language vendors can use in describing their relative positioning, so I’ll just say we are very pleased with our placement. Take a look at the report and decide for yourself how the top rankings play out.

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It’s great to see all the discussion on Case Management.  As Craig Le Clair and Connie Moore from Forrester put it last December, this truly is an Old Idea that is Catching New Fire.  Not many people would have predicted that “Case Management” would have received this much discussion 2 years ago, but the rapid convergence of social “un-structured” work with business process management has forced many people to consider new flexible solutions.

The latest post on this topic is from psHealth, a company with real experience applying Case Management solutions to the Healthcare industry.  The topic centers around “Case Management System Design Challenges”, which is a great follow-on to some previous posts on “The Technical Case for Case Management“.

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Six Sigma IQ has a great article from John Jarrett, director of BPM at AGF Trust talking about implementing enterprise-wide BPM. AGF Trust is an Appian customer using our platform across six product lines and multiple departments. Their BPM Program touches numerous functional areas within the investment management firm, including Client Services, Finance, Funding Teams, Ongoing Administration, and Underwriting.

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Appian has reported another six months of strong performance in the first half of 2010. In that time, we signed 28 new-name customers. This is a company record, and it far outpaces anything we have seen reported for competitor BPM offerings across a 6-month period. New customer acquisition drove 58% and 43% sequential quarterly bookings growth (Q1 10 over Q4 09, and Q2 10 over Q1 10, respectively). At a time when global economies remain tight, and corporate budgets even tighter, Appian is selling what people are willing to pay for: fast, high-impact results.

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As the leader in “BPM for Government,” Appian has a bird’s eye view of that market’s accelerated growth. The latest example is this morning’s announcement of a significant Appian contract win with the Dept. of Treasury/Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). It is a multi-million dollar award for a Case Management application for Security Processing.

The federal government is increasingly looking to BPM to solve process issues, like Security Processing, that are of broad applicability across agencies and departments.

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The demand for BPM-based Dynamic Case Management solutions in the healthcare industry continues to grow. The fact is, using BPM software raises the level of patient care and supports better health outcomes. It does this by enabling more efficient patient on-boarding and administrative management, faster and more effective diagnosis, increased collaboration between treatment professionals, and improved processing of the back-office/financial aspects of the healthcare business.

We’ve seen these positive impacts through cutting-edge Appian case management deployments with customers like the Benenden Healthcare Society, the U.S. Army’s Wounded Warrior application, and many others. We are now very excited to announce a new development: Appian partner psHEALTH is leveraging our Appian Anywhere SaaS BPM platform to rapidly develop and deliver new case management solutions for its healthcare clients.

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It’s nice when doing well and doing good coincide. That’s the case for Appian with a new application being rolled out to the U.S. Army. The application, called Wounded Warrior, uses our BPM software to help speed rehabilitation for U.S. soldiers wounded in the line of duty. It was developed by our partner CollabraLink, and it leverages Appian’s out-of-the-box Case Management capabilities.

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Personally, I must abmit, I’ve always been a little skeptical about corporations adopting the word “Green”.  I don’t believe many companies  truly fully adopt the “Green” term beyond the marketing department, and for basic economic reasons.  The reality is that corporations are mostly motivated by revenue generation and new “Green” technologies are expensive and an economic luxury that won’t be broadly adopted across all businesses until they really reduce costs and drive economic efficiency.

Don’t get me wrong.  I know every right-minded person cares about the environment and wants to adopt “Green” technologies.  I personnally have been looking into adding solar panels to my home;  measuring how much roof space I have, checking county permit laws, figuring out the layout of the panels, and calculating how many Kw I can generate daily if I had solar.  But then I look at the price and wham!, reality smacks me in the face.  I can’t afford it!

Fortunately, being “Green” has merged with economic reality in the world of Enterprise IT, and that merger is happening in the Cloud.

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Tags: , Amazon, Appian, Appian Anywhere, BPM, BPM in the Cloud, Cloud Computing, Green, Sustainability

In the world of technology, is there such a thing as fast enough, lean enough, or easy enough?

No.  Of course not!  We in software and technology are naturally obsessed with squeezing out a few nano-seconds in response time and trimming a few bytes off our footprint.

This obsession in Appian has led to a great new release for our customers.

Appian introduces a bevy of new architectural improvements which will dramatically reduce the footprint of the Appian environment and increases speed and performance by an order of magnitude in some cases.

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