Appian is kicking off 2011 with another Tips and Tricks webinar covering Integration Best Practices on January 12th, 2011 at Noon EST.

Registration is available on Appian Forum.

Over the past 6 months we’ve been producing a series of educational webinars to teach BPM developers how to take advantage of the full power of Appian.  Previous topics have covered

• How to Easily Create and Share “Plug-ins” in Appian using OSGi
• The Critical Role of Data in Your Process Applications
• Advanced UI and Styling in Appian

(NOTE:  recordings of previous webinars are all available on Appian Forum)

Our next session will cover Tips and Tricks for connecting Appian with your enterprise systems, presented by Jorge Sanchez.

I look forward to seeing you there, and as usual, a recording will be available on Appian Forum.

Malcolm Ross

Director Product Management

With Jaduka and Appian, you can have your cake & eat it too—seriously. By combining Jaduka’s On-Demand Voice Communications Services with Appian’s Business Process Management (BPM) Suite, business processes are able to do something they’ve never been able to do before. For the first time, we are extending the boundaries of business processes safely beyond your internal teams and the corporate firewall. We are taking your business processes and now involving what is most important to you – connecting with your clients, vendors and partners. 

This revolutionary way of extending business processes has almost endless applications. You will now have the ability to automate and accomplish such tasks as validating leads, scheduling/rescheduling appointments, validating a client’s availability, and accepting payments with greater efficiency than ever before. With these newly expanded processes, your employees will now have more time to focus on what matters most – your clients.

How is this possible? Jaduka’s and Appian’s partnership allows for business process designers to reach out to their customers automatically, inexpensively, and effectively. Appian’s BPM solutions integrate people within an organization, IT systems, and business rules into defined and repeatable business processes. By combining Jaduka’s Voice Services with Appian’s Business Process Management Suite, we have given enterprises the tools to experiment and create optimal ways of connecting people, data, business rules and systems into one cohesive process to drive process improvement, organizational efficiency and profitability.

Are you interested in learning more? Call me – we’ll meet for a slice of cake and talk about it.

Brian Kirk
VP Business Development
Jaduka

Appian recently released the latest update to the Appian for SharePoint module.  Appian for SharePoint has been a success over the past year in helping customers bring the enterprise BPM capabilities of Appian to the very common Microsoft SharePoint platform.  Of course, many other BPM companies offer their own version of SharePoint integration, but I would like to think Appian has offered a unique spin on this integration that raises the bar for all other BPM vendors.  Appian not only allows SharePoint users to easily publish task lists and process reports in native SharePoint dashboards as webparts, but also Allows process designers to control and orchestrate all objects in SharePoint in an Appian process model. 

BPM has always been about more than just tasks lists and reports.  Orchestration of corporate assets and SOA methodologies are key to making any BPM implementation successful.  Appian for SharePoint exposes all objects in SharePoint, including Sites, Lists, Folders, Documents, and Permissions, as service objects that the Appian Process Modeler can easily control and orchestrate.  As an example, a process modeler can setup a process that manages the creation of new SharePoint sites, publication and destruction of content, and the permissions of each object created.  Last year I gave a demonstration showing how the Appian for SharePoint module was used to manage the automatic creation of a SharePoint site to support a collaborative project for an organization.  Customers have found this orchestration capability of SharePoint content is a great way to ensure your SharePoint environment is managed in a structured and repeatable manner.

Appian has expanded the module to also include a more robust authentication structure that ensures audit histories of commands run in SharePoint are synchronized with audit trails in Appian.

If you are an existing customer or partner of Appian, feel free to download and try out the Appian for SharePoint module from Appian Access.  The Appian for SharePoint module is available in the software download section under Appian Enterprise 5.7 folders.  Trial licenses are available from Appian Support.

Thanks,

Malcolm Ross

Director Product Management