Welcome to Appian World 2013! I’m reporting from the Ronald Reagan Building, where Appian customers, partners, prospects, analysts, and the media have gathered to learn about BPM and the power of worksocial. There are over 750 attendees, including 225 unique organizations from 15 countries! Attendees include Appian customers, partners, prospects, analysts, and the media.

I’ll be liveblogging presentations today and tomorrow, so stay tuned to this blog. Presenters today will include Appian CEO Matt Calkins, Forrester analyst Derek Miers, and GSA CIO Phil Klokis, in addition to customer case studies and in-depth Appian product sessions. View the agenda here. You can also follow along with the conference on Twitter, and view pictures and video at Facebook.

The opening keynote was delivered by Nick Gall, VP & Distinguished Analyst at Gartner. His topic was “A Strategic Approach to Social BPM.”

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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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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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Last week’s Gartner Symposium and ITxpo attracted over 10,000 attendees and far exceeded original estimate of 8,000 attendees. “The world’s most important gathering of CIOs and Senior IT Executives”, according to Gartner, featured a Focus. Connect. Lead theme. Appian sponsored the event and talked to hundreds of attendees on how worksocial can help achieve these goals and drive business results.

>>Register for the free Appian worksocial webinar today.

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Today’s modern enterprises need to be agile and dynamic to stay ahead of the global competitive curve. The wave of social, mobile, analytics, and cloud innovations lead to consumerization of IT and faster user adoption. An intelligent Business Process Management Suite (iBPMS) provides the foundation to achieve operational excellence and accelerate business innovation.

Appian, the market leader in modern Business Process Management software, is positioned in the “Leaders” quadrant in the 2012 “Magic Quadrant for Intelligent Business Process Management Suites” by Gartner, Inc. According to the report, “An iBPMS expands the traditional BPMS by adding the new functionality needed to support Intelligent Business Operations (IBO), such as real-time business analytics, deep complex-event processing (CEP), social media to support social behavior and collaboration, and expanded technologies to support growing requirements for mobility.”

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Among other reasons, Apple’s successful entry into the mobile market is largely due to designing and delivering an intuitive, intelligent, and mobile computing device into the hands of consumers. Although smartphones have been around since the early 90s, Apple unleashed the next generation of smarter, more intelligent phones that are also fun and easy to use.

The Business Process Management (BPM) market is also going through an evolution. The idea behind an intelligent BPM Suite (iBPMS) is that the BPMS as we know it needs to evolve and incorporate modern technologies to meet skyrocketing data consumption needs and an increasingly global, mobile, and tech savvy workforce.

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Do you know that smartphone sales grew 61.3% last year? Almost half a billion smartphones shipped globally in 2011 (Sources: IDC & MobiThinking.com). Besides calling and texting, today’s tech savvy consumers are also using smart phones for extended communications (e.g., emails, instant messaging, video chats and calls), engaging in social media activities, capturing and sharing multimedia content like photos, videos and music.

As we adapt how we live, work, and play in the mobile and social age, Business Process Management (BPM) systems should also evolve with consumer, market, and technology trends. As the leading innovator in social, mobile, and cloud BPM, Appian has many customers in production utilizing all or some aspects of these modern technologies.

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Social media is pervasive and increasingly, an important communications channel. Anthony Bradley, Group Vice President in Gartner Research and author of The Social Organization, advocates that the real value of social media is massive collaboration. In his keynote at Gartner’s 2012 BPM Summit, the theme is combining social media and business process transformation to drive organization success.

Most people understand and agree that processes can be messy, hidden, chaotic, and unpredictable. Bradley asserts that some of the most important processes within an organization may not be structured and linear. So rather than trying to tame these ad hoc and unstructured processes, why not embrace and leverage social media, tap into the power of people to help discover, nurture, and improve business processes?

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We’re at the Reston Hyatt today, for Appian World 2012. The theme of the conference is “Tap the Power of Process Innovation in the Mobile, Cloud and Social Age.” There were over 650 registrations, including 230 unique organizations from 15 countries! Attendees include customers, partners, prospects, analysts, and the media.

We’ll be liveblogging presentations today and tomorrow, so stay tuned. Presenters today will include Daryl Plummer from Gartner, Appian CEO Matt Calkins, and Sandy Kemsley, in addition to customer case studies and BPM training sessions. View the agenda here. You can also follow along with the conference on Twitter, and view pictures and video at Facebook.

The opening keynote was given by Daryl Plummer, Group Vice President at Gartner. His topic was “Delivering Enterprise Performance Breakthroughs with Extreme Collaboration.”

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Gartner’s Jim Sinur recently predicted that 2012 will be “The Year of Intelligent Business Operations (IBO),” and stated that Intelligent Business Process Management Software (iBPMS) is the central enabling technology. Appian customers are among the vanguard of “leading edge organizations” Jim mentioned that are making IBO a reality today. This is because the innovations Appian has pioneered (Mobile BPM, Social BPM, Cloud BPM, real-time event architecture, in-memory analytics, extreme ease-of-use) are all crucial components to enacting an IBO strategy.

Click here to read a paper by Appian Principal Consultant Glenn Smith on “Intelligent Business Operations: BPM & Analytics in the Event-Driven Enterprise.”

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