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Uniting Process Architecture and Execution – Whitepaper

Malcolm Ross — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:58:21 +0000

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

Appian Forum Wrap-Up

Malcolm Ross — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:54:33 +0000

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.

The Appian Forum was kicked off by Forrester Vice President and Research Director Connie Moore . Followed by Connie, we had six great customer presentations by Nokia Siemens Network, AGF, Archstone, Defense Acquisition University, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, and Mercer HR Consulting on how they managed their BPM implementation. In addition, presentations were provided by Appian partners on BPM best practices, methodologies and tools by Satyam, SMART, Oakbrook Solutions, and Mega.

On the second day, Appian held a number of technical sessions providing tips and tricks in managing your BPM systems, code examples for performing some more complex actions, best practices in setting up your BPM initiative, and some sneak peeks on future versions of Appian Enterprise.

I’d certainly like to provide a special thank you to Sandy Kemsley for providing detailed blogs and summaries of each presentation. Sandy takes time from her busy schedule to attend these sessions and provide useful feedback in improving our conferences. Next time Sandy we’ll try to have a power plug nearby to keep you going throughout the day.

Overall, we could not have asked for a better event. We had close to 200 total attendees, a great location at the Ritz Carlton, informative presentations, and even beautiful weather.

Thanks again to everyone who attended. If you happened to miss it, all the presentations are available on Appian Access. We look forward to seeing everyone at the next Appian Forum.

Malcolm Ross

Appian / Mega Partnership

Malcolm Ross — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:48:15 +0000

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