Appian | Business Process Management (BPM) Software Suite | Affiliations
Three Colored Squares
Appian, the leading provider of business process management (BPM) software suites, is affiliated with several leading organizations that are defining
and influencing the development of BPM technology.
Affiliations
Appian | Business Process Management (BPM) Software Suite | Affiliations
Business Process Management Initiative
BPMI.org (the Business Process Management Initiative) is a non-profit corporation that aims to empower companies of all sizes, across all industries, to develop and operate business processes that span multiple applications and business partners, behind the firewall and over the Internet. In June of 2005, the BPMI.org merged their BPM activities with OMG to provide combined thought leadership and industry standards to this growing industry.

Working with standards organizations including OMG, WfMC, and OASIS, BPMI.org focuses on developing standards to support the entire life-cycle of BPM -- from process design to deployment, execution, maintenance, and optimization. [ visit www.bpmi.org ]
Object Management Group™ (OMG)
OMG is an open membership, non-profit consortium that produces and maintains computer industry specifications for interoperable enterprise applications. Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is OMG's multi-platform flagship specification based on the modeling specifications Meta-Object Facility (MOF), Unified Modeling Language (UML), XMI, and Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM). OMG's middleware platform, CORBA, includes the Interface Definition Language (IDL) and the IIOP protocol. [ visit www.omg.org ]
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
OASIS is an international, non-profit consortium that driving the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. OASIS produces more web services standards than any other organization along with standards for security, e-business, the public sector, and numerous application-specific markets.

Founded in 1993, OASIS has more than 4,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100 countries. [ visit www.oasis-open.org ]
Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC)
The Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC), founded in August 1993, is a non-profit, international organization of analysts, research groups, universities, workflow vendors, and users.

WfMC's mission is to promote and develop the use of workflow through the establishment of standards for software terminology, interoperability, and connectivity between workflow products. The primary standards body for the workflow software market, WfMC promotes the use of workflow by establishing industry standards for software terminology, interoperability, and connectivity between workflow products. [ visit www.wfmc.org ]