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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Appian’s Center of Excellence (CoE), part of our Professional Services offerings, provides on-going services to impart governance and best practices related to Appian BPM deployments. Ultimately, our CoE’s mission is to support the BPM knowledge transfer that makes our customers and partners self-sufficient in driving their own BPM programs.

This week the Appian CoE is releasing an update to its best practices regarding organization and management of applications built on Appian. The new set of guidelines are part of the Change and Configuration Management track of Appian’s proven STAR methodology (Strategize, Transform, Actualize and Rollout). They outline the differences between managing a code base in a custom application and Appian’s Application objects. These guidelines have been compiled from experiences and data our Professional Services team has collected over numerous engagements of varying sizes and complexities.

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We are always working to enhance Appian Academy social business process management training options for our customers and partners. Appian Academy quickly builds BPM skills, improves employee productivity and maximizes the value of a business process management program through our comprehensive custom and instructor-led BPM courses on Appian products, methodology and certification at affordable prices. In addition to our existing on-site and on-demand options, we have developed two new exciting offerings: live online training and a new course to introduce Appian users to the basics of creating and using worksocial applications.

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Appian has set the date, booked the facility and opened the registration for the 3rd and largest Appian global user conference, Appian World 2011!

As with previous Appian user conferences, the event is completely free to Appian customers, partners, and those simply interested in learning more about Appian and Business Process Management. Whether you are a business or IT professional, a process improvement expert or a BPM newbie, with a commercial organization or working in the public sector, this is a must-attend event.

At Appian World 2011, BPM industry luminaries and leading practitioners will share the insights you need to drive business value through process improvement. More »

Tags: , Appian, Appian 6, BPM, BPM for Government, BPM in the Cloud, BPM Methodology, Business Process Management, Forrester, Gartner, Implementation, IT, SaaS BPM

The Forrester Research Business Process and Application Delivery Forum 2010 is just two days away. Come to the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center near Washington, D.C. October 7 and 8 to hear Forrester analysts and a broad spectrum of end users talk about “Delivering Breakthrough Business Value” with BPM.

The vital first step, of course, is getting your BPM initiative off the ground by building a solid business case. Our customer CME Group is hosting an exclusive lunch presentation on just this topic at the conference. A BPM business case involves much more than just doing an ROI calculation. To set a BPM program up for success, you must secure executive sponsorship, get both IT and the business side on board, assemble the right cross-functional team, think about issues of change management and their impact, and more.

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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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I recently had the opportunity to sit down in a podcast with Ali Klaver, Managing Editor of Enterprise Technology Management (ETM) to discuss the growth of BPM inside corporations, common benefits customers are realizing with BPM and how BPM is increasing the collaboration between IT and business. 

We certainly live in exciting times in the BPM industry.  We have seen dramatic consolidation in the industry as well as dramatic growth in adoption of BPM platforms.  If you are an IT professional, and not up-to-speed yet on BPM, I encourage you to listen to the podcast and start your research in how your role will be changing over the next several years.   The future is all about alignment of IT/Business for a common “Shared Purpose”, agile development, SaaS and Cloud offerings, and using a common tool to jointly model and manage your enterprise processes and applications.

To listen to this podcast, follow the link to the ETM website and register.  ETM additionally offers a variety of other great resources to learn about trends in the IT and BPM industry.

Malcolm Ross, Director Product Management, Appian

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The analysts at Forrester are talking about a business technology transformation they are seeing; one that they have defined as a shift from “Information Technology (IT)” to “Business Technology (BT).” On a recent webinar, VP and Research Director Connie Moore cited a move away from the traditional notion of “business & IT alignment” to a more holistic fusion of the two that will better-address 21^st Century business needs. Business process professionals are on the frontline of this BT transformation, supported by a dramatic evolution in business process management software and the strategies and methodologies behind its use. More »

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