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Enterprise Apps Get Social Social media mania is having a huge impact on traditional business applications. Companies that are leveraging this trend are seeing significant benefits, including collaboration and data sharing in ways they've not experienced before. Adding social media extensions to applications like ERP, CRM, BI, and SCM makes it possible for companies to share business insights generated by these apps... |
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Appian BPM, Quest ChartMaxx ECM Team Up to Improve Healthcare BPM provider Appian is bringing mobile and social capabilities to Quest Diagnostics’ ChartMaxx document management software, to help hospitals improve patient-related processes. The joint BPM/ECM solution will combine patient and administrative data, improve task management, smarter e-forms and sports real-time communications... |
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Tech People's Hobbies Launching a tech startup can be... well, exhausting. And stressful. So we checked in with the adventuresome out there doing it and asked them what they do to blow off some steam. ... |
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Six Suggestions for Federal Software Procurement The federal government has a very poor success rate when it acquires software. There are many stories of projects scrapped because of negligible results after hundreds of millions of dollars were spent. The key to improving this track record and achieving success in software projects on par with private industry is changing the procurement process. Here are some specific suggestions... |
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ChartMaxx and Appian Enter into Partnership Quest Diagnostics, a provider of diagnostic information services, announced a partnership between ChartMaxx, its Document Management and Imaging (DMI) software, and Appian, a service for modern Business Process Management (BPM) software. According to a release, the new ChartMaxx platform supported by the partnership enables hospital users to combine patient and administrative data and create highly efficient processes... |
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Top 10 Vendors in Mobile BPM Enterprises have been increasingly adopting mobile BPM, effectively leveraging the explosion taking place in mobile devices, capabilities and platforms. Even though mobile BPM is still a little behind enterprise apps such as Business intelligence (BI) and CRM, the technology is rapidly catching up. There are several challenges like security in mobile BPM and form factor limitations, yet a few key mobile BPM vendors have been effectively leveraging mobile BPM... |
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The Five Evils of Enterprise Social The history of enterprise collaboration technology is littered with abandoned platforms that were intended to "change everything." But many new social collaboration tools quickly end up on the shelf, collecting dust, unless there are compelling reasons to use it, and dramatic incentives for people to maintain it. Most businesses don't have the rationale or the staff to do this. That's why there are so many empty portals and unused SharePoint sites... |
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What Crime Scene Investigators Would Find in Software Acquisitions U.S federal government acquisitions of enterprise software systems have led to some gruesome failures, and the causes are not always apparent. So what would a team of CSIs find at the scene of these "crimes"?... |
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Social Media Offers Opportunities and Challenges A few years ago, enterprise social media consisted of little more than creating a Facebook page and monitoring Twitter for sundry comments and complaints. In many instances, all that was needed was a handful of younger workers or interns to sift through posting and feeds and provide a basic response. It's safe to say that social media was little more than a blip on the information technology horizon... |
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Social BPM Gaining Tremendous Significance in South Africa Social media seems to be everywhere and there is hardly any place today which has not seen the social media touch. The word ‘Social’ has also crept into BPM and is catching on widely. BPM has evolved as an industry and social enterprise is like a part of it. The merger of BPM and social enterprise is going to create a revolutionary change in the sector... |
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Six Ways to Improve Federal Government Software Procurement The Federal government has a very poor success rate when acquiring software, with many front-page stories of projects that delivered negligible results having to be scrapped after hundreds of millions of dollars were spent. While software acquisitions are complicated, the root cause of the problem does not rest there; after all, the commercial world has good success with software investments... |
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Mobility in Government "Progress & Best Practices" This roundtable program discusses mobility in the federal government. Discussion topics include Strategies for Mobility Use, Best Practices & Major Benefits, Challenges or major hurdles to still overcome, How to incorporate Security into Mobility, and A Vision for The Future... |
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Mobile BPM: 10 Vendors to Watch Topping most analysts’ lists, Appian is the vendor to catch – for now. “Appian is definitely a leader in the mobile BPM market,” says Sandy Kemsley, an independent BPM consultant. “They make good use of native apps on the different platforms, and their Tempo interface is optimized for mobile form factors..." |
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Why CIOs Are Better at Courting Millenials Than HR When a college graduate interviews for a job this spring, the first question he or she asks could be, “can I use my iPad at work?” The Millennial generation, born between the early 1980s and 2000, has never lived a moment outside of the Digital Age. Their expectation is that their workplaces will parallel the always-on, user-centric, app-driven world of consumer technology... |
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Early on the Mobile BPM Curve For mobile business process management (BPM) to be successful, experts say it will need to move beyond simple functionality like task approvals and notifications. Given that an increasingly large portion of work activity – and not just personal email correspondence, but activities that sit squarely in the middle of enterprise workflows -- now occurs outside the office, it's not surprising that companies are showing interest in mobile business process management (BPM)... |
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Social Media and government Contractors: Know Your 4 Pillars Social media continues to be all the rage for companies, and for very good reason; it lends itself to more efficient communication on micro and macro levels, thereby helping companies better achieve their missions. No matter your brand of social media, it serves the same end: better business... |
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BPM's Expanding Horizons No longer the domain of large enterprises, business process management (BPM) is now also feasible for small and medium-sized businesses. And, new features such as social media and mobile applications are making BPM more robust and versatile. Bank of Tennessee, a community bank, wanted to improve its procedures while providing a collaborative environment for workers... |
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Energy Firm EDP Renewables Deploys BPM System to Maintain Equipment, Collect Unstructured Data When your business is scattered to the four winds, keeping track of routine tasks can be a management headache. That was the challenge facing EDP Renewables North America, with an ongoing need to efficiently schedule and perform both routine maintenance and repair of wind turbines across the U.S... |
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Five Factors That Drive a Wedge Between Work and Social Media Jive, Yammer, Chatter and other social enterprise platforms don’t seem to understand that social is no replacement for business process, business data and work context. Social is the style; work is the substance. Work must come first. As a leader in work-social solutions that integrate social computing with business processes and data, Appian knows that the golden ticket for business value is not bringing external social media into the work place. It is bringing work into the realm of social technology... |
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Appian Continues to Defy Conventional Wisdom In markets for software technologies, conventional wisdom dictates that over time, as the need for the technology becomes widely understood and the market matures, supply consolidates and room for small, innovative players starts to disappear.Now I’m not generally a fan of conventional wisdom, as it’s often just a shortcut for thinking properly through a situation. In any case, BPM technology provider Appian is one specialist vendor that’s busy defying that historical pattern... |
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How Social Media and Business Process Tools Boost Productivity If any technology in the last 25 years has demonstrated the consequences of too much of a good thing, it's email. For employees in so many organizations, email's sheer volume has made it almost counterproductive. That's one reason why so many federal agencies are turning to social media tools for interpersonal collaboration... |
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Five Tips for Using Social Media More Effectively in Your Agency The White House’s Digital Government strategy, issued this past spring, included the following provision: "The public expects to be able to interact with government anytime, anywhere and on any device, so agencies must ensure they can live up to these ever-increasing customer demands..." |
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Social BPM Adds Value for Enterprises and Employees Social media is everywhere today. But what does social really mean? If you're just sharing the latest news about who you are dating or a great recipe you just tried for Thanksgiving, then social networking is just about sharing with friends and family. In an organizational context, though, social becomes much more, enhancing the very definition of "work"... |
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State of DC Tech (Part 1) Appian founder Matt Calkins is adding 100 people to his Reston, Va.-based firm in the next six months. That’s if he can find them. While the company already has 3.5 million users of its BPM software and just completed its best quarter ever, its accelerator is “all the way down” due to not being able to hire the amount of people it needs... |
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Appian Cloud app gets FISMA moderate security cert The General Services Administration has granted moderate-level security certification to a business process management application built on Appian Cloud that the agency is using for acquisition planning, making it easier for other federal agencies to use Appian cloud-based software... |
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Adaptive Case Management in a Worksocial World The concept of “social business” is gaining attention because it promises to create a more open, fluid and responsive business environment. The problem is that the much-hyped “enterprise social platforms” such as Yammer, Jive and Salesforce Chatter are incapable of delivering on this vision...
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Appian 7 Product Announcement Webinar
Posted on May 9, 2013 by Malcolm Ross
Fixing the failures of enterprise social technology with worksocial.
