The new breed of intelligent Business Process Management (BPM) Suites includes powerful social, mobile, cloud, and analytics capabilities. Innovative technologies provide the platform to transform how we work and accelerate business growth, but that’s half of the BPM journey. Implementing BPM for successful enterprise adoption requires strategy, execution, expertise, and continuous commitment.

Join us on Thursday, April 11th to explore these strategies in an insightful webinar on the Four Steps to BPM Project Success. I will be hosting the webinar and moderating questions. In addition, I will share how combining work automation and social collaboration improves visibility, coordinated action, user participation, speed of decisions and executions.  More »

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April is book-ended by two very important educational events in business process management software. The month starts with the Gartner Business Process Management Summit in Maryland, and ends with Appian World 2013 in Washington, DC. With spring finally here, make April your time to commit to 30 days of re-invigorating your business process management software education.

At next week’s Gartner BPM Summit,  you’ll have ample opportunity to see how the next generation of business process management software goes beyond incremental efficiency gains and cost savings. This is the new world of intelligent business operations, and worksocial from Appian is the iBPMS platform to help you harness it. We are a Premier Sponsor of the event, so stop by our booth (Booth #207) anytime for some discussion and a demonstration.

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Are you content with the status quo? The desire to evolve is embedded in our DNA. We grow, we learn, we better our lives, and hope the generation after us will have an even brighter future. For professionals who improve processes to increase business performance, an “as-is” process is simply not good enough. They look for ways to create a vision for “to-be” processes in the ideal state, then utilize methodologies, resources, and technologies to implement them for real, measurable benefits.

Pushing process to the edge to incorporate customers and partners has long been a goal of BPM. With social and mobile technology, that goal is now being realized. Instead of improving fixed and standardized processes (think manufacturing assembly line), today’s BPM professionals have to consider various dynamic, spontaneous, and often unpredictable interactions from multiple channels. More »

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Gartner, Inc. recently published a Top 10 CIO Business & Technology Priorities in 2013 list. It’s interesting to note that BPM can address and achieve all top ten business priorities, when implemented with the right technologies and methodologies. The green check mark next to each Business priority indicates that BPM can help accomplish this goal.

The check mark next to each Technology priority signifies a match with Appian BPM Suite‘s capabilities: either as part of the product or as a solution. Furthermore, the worksocial approach from Appian is essentially taking collaboration technologies with workflow BPM (#4), enabling greater access of data and analytics (#1) to all users via mobile technologies (#2), available in the cloud (#3) or on-premise.

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Want to know how to work more effectively and leverage social technologies efficiently? Come to Appian World to learn more about worksocial. See how worksocial can unleash workforce productivity and creativity by combining the power of work automation and social software.

Appian World will feature luminary industry analysts, Appian customers, and executives to share insights on disruptive new technologies that are changing the way we work, how they’re leveraging them, and visions for the future. In addition, the conference will include beginner, developer, and business tracks for attendees of varying skills and interests.

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Appian provides a modern business process management (BPM) application platform to drive better business decisions, actions and results. Users have access to all the data, all the processes, all the documents, and all the collaborations – in one environment, on any device, through a simple worksocial interface.

Recent Appian 7.x releases include additional new social features, designer and administrator enhancements, and platform updates. Here’s a summary of new features in Appian 7 to help with business improvement initiatives and social collaboration in your organization:

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The last post on “Get Started with Mobile BPM” covered how to identify new projects for mobile applications development. Stakeholders can assess project complexity and prioritize projects that would bring high value to the organization by listing and weighing: key user groups, core processes, quantitative metrics, and key performance indicators.

 
This and the following posts in the series will highlight a few mobile use cases across industries. We will surface key challenges in traditional processes and work methodologies. Than share opportunities to transform work and the business. Lastly, highlight benefits to the organization with Appian’s worksocial approach through a customer case study.
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The premier event for Appian customers, partners, and the business process management (BPM) community is coming up. If you are new to BPM and want to learn how to leverage the power of modern technology to improve business processes and increase organizational effectiveness, this is the event for you. Appian World 2013 will take place from April 29th to May 1st at the historic Ronald Reagan Building in the US Capitol, Washington DC.

 
Industry visionaries and analysts will share insights on how disruptive technologies like social software, mobile, and cloud will change the future of work. Executives from innovative companies across industries will share their journey and success stories on transforming the way they work and do business. In addition, Appian World will feature a dedicated track for practitioners who are Starting the Journey in BPM. This track is ideal for business analysts, project managers, department leads, consultants, and anyone who is passionate about improving processes and performance. 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.

Not sure where to start and what will provide the most value and return on investment? Start identifying enterprise applications for mobile enablement by listing: More »

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