At Appian, we’ve seen a growing interest in the market to unite traditional Enterprise Architecture and Business Process Analysis modeling (EA/BPA) with executable BPM diagrams.  Despite consolidation in the market between EA/BPA tools and BPM execution frameworks, the historical results of integration have been poor, with disjointed development, to much “Lost in Translation”, and a lack of true round-trip exchange of models between the platforms.

Bruce Silver has released a new whitepaper that discusses this need to unite the EA/BPA and BPM tools in your enterprise.  It’s a great read if your an enterprise architect looking to understand how to connect your architecture to your BPM initiatives.  And if your a BPM expert, the whitepaper highlights the importance and benefits by uniting your BPM project with the larger view of EA/BPA modeling. 

Appian and Mega have been working hard to provide customers with a seamless integration between these worlds that enhance your enterprise process improvement initiative.  The Appian/Mega integration provides a seamless transition from Mega EA/BPA modeling to the Appian BPM execution engine and allows analytics and process changes implemented captured Appian to be re-imported into the Mega EA/BPA platform, ensuring your enterprise documentation and execution frameworks are always in-line.

Malcolm Ross

Director Product Management

Tags: , BPA, BPM, Business Process Management, Enterprise Architecture, MEGA

A big thank you needs to go out to all those who attended the Appian Forum.  This was certainly a milestone event in the history of Appian and a fantastic education and networking event in building your BPM practice.  More »

Tags: , Appian Forum, Forrester, MEGA

I’ve been waiting to blog about our partnership with Mega for a few weeks now.  We at Appian have been very busy with our recent Appian Forum event and Gartner BPM Show, and with those events behind us, there are many topics to catch up on.

The Appian / Mega partnership is an exciting relationship that provides an unmatched value proposition to the BPM market.  Mega has lead the way in Business Process Analysis and Enterprise Architecture tools while Appian is the innovation leader in Business Process Management in the execution and management of enterprise processes.  Binding these products together will provide unmatched capability in modeling, analysis, simulation, execution, and management of processes.

We’ll disclose more details as the integration evolves, but suffice to say, it goes far beyond what has ever been attempted before in integrating a BPA and BPM tool together.   The partnership will close the gap on round-trip modeling, execution and analysis.  Furthmore, it will raise the bar in change management and architecture for all application platforms.

Look for an upcoming webinar in Q4/2008 that will highlight the partnership and integration between the two products.

Malcolm Ross

Tags: , BPA, MEGA