Appian’s goal has always been to be the top pure-play BPM company. The road from where we stand to that place has never been clearer than it is right now.

You have heard by now that IBM is buying Lombardi. We welcome this transaction, as it will help us to achieve our goal more quickly. Lombardi has now marginalized itself, and will soon be entangled in the IBM stack. No BPM company has ever maintained its innovative vitality after being acquired. More »

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New research from Aberdeen Group validates what many business and IT leaders have discovered for themselves: accelerating process improvement efforts with BPM is yielding significant returns as organizations continue to grapple with the unstable global economy.

The new report, called “BPM Accelerated: Slashing Cost and Time with Agile Business Processes,” uses Aberdeen’s methodology of Best-in-Class, Industry Average and Laggard to show that leading companies were able to achieve an average 18 percent year-over-year reduction in operating cost and an average 16 percent reduction in process cycle time through a comprehensive strategy for BPM.  More »

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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 »

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Today, Appian announced the impending availability of Appian 6.  Appian 6 raises the bar in the BPM market by making the discovery, construction, and deployment of enterprise BPM application easier than ever.  Our main theme around Appian 6 is Process Acceleration.  Accelerated results and faster deployments represents the value customers will experience with the Appian 6 platform given the new ability to rapidly deploy and realize ROI faster than any other BPM product on the market.  More »

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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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Appian is pleased to make available this BPM blog to share insight on the Appian product, thoughts on the business process management market, implementation best practices, and BPM success stories. We plan to update this blog regularly with information readers will find useful in planning their own BPM implementations.   More »

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