Appian News

Appian Voted Best-in-Show at BPM Tech Show

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:00:00 EST

Appian, an innovative global provider of business process management (BPM) technology, today announced it was selected as "Best in Show" by the attendees of the BPM Tech Show, which ran February 25-27, 2008 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Taking place at various locations in the U.K. and U.S. since 1996, the BPM Tech Show has emerged as the leading event focused exclusively on minimizing risk and accelerated decision-making around BPM software selection. Last week's event involved nearly 150 individuals representing a wide variety of government and commercial organizations seeking BPM solutions.

Among BPM Tech Show attendees polled, 70% stated that their decisions to purchase were "greatly influenced" by what they saw presented last week. Of these, 57% stated they expected to purchase a BPMS solution within 6 months, and more than 90% cited expectations to do so within a year. Disclosed budgets for anticipated BPM software investments ranged from $50,000 to over $1,000,000.

Attendees participated in a series of presentations delivered by 15 invited vendors, and ranked each based on their perceived value and overall presentation quality. Appian received the highest marks in both regards, along with comments such as "Truly Innovative," "Great UI" as well as "Superior Demo, Powerful Capabilities."

In a tightly contested competition, Appian bested other participating vendors including Ascentn, BEA Systems, BizAgi, Bluespring Software, Cordys, Graham Technology, HandySoft, Integrify, Itensil, Fujitsu, Lombardi, Pallas Athena, Pegasystems and TIBCO.

At the event's conclusion, several vendors also participated in a moderated "shoot out" session, demonstrating their approach to addressing a specific business process use case provided a week prior. Here Appian tied for first place (based on audience voting).

"Our selection as Best-in-Show overall, and our performance in the head-to-head vendor shoot out, are testaments to the power and flexibility of the Appian Enterprise platform," said Samir Gulati, Vice President of Marketing at Appian. "The BPM Tech Show attracts a very savvy audience in the process management community, and we are proud to receive this honor."

Appian Announces Record Results for 2007

Mon, 4 Feb 2008 08:00:00 EST

Appian, an innovative global provider of business process management (BPM) technology, today announced that Swiss Reinsurance Company, the world's leading and most diversified global reinsurer, has selected Appian's BPM Software Suite to manage their workflow requirements.

Swiss Re previously utilised a point solution for their workflow requirements. However, as the business has rapidly grown, the demands have become much greater. After an initial pilot phase it is planned to use Appian Enterprise to manage mission critical operational processes globally within the business.

Swiss Re made this selection after a thorough vendor evaluation, conducted over nine months. After an in-depth analysis that covered the product, the vendor and the management team, Appian was awarded an Enterprise Site License contract.

Sami Hassanein, Director of EBPM Platforms at Swiss Re, said, "Appian offered us a mature, stable, easy-to-use, and rich BPM platform. Its workflow capabilities will be our primary focus. The Appian product perfectly integrates into our existing product landscape. Additionally we received excellent and professional support and commitment from the Appian team during the evaluation project, which also enables us to look forward to a long term future together."

Appian's Managing Director for EMEA, Justin Thomas, said, "Appian are very pleased to welcome Swiss Re as a Strategic Client to our rapidly growing and valued European client base. We are fully committed to maintaining and developing the already strong working relationship with the Swiss Re project team. Together, we look forward to supporting Swiss Re's plans for scaling the Appian Enterprise Solution. This will ensure that Swiss Re can realise the value of workflow throughout the organisation."

Appian Announces Record Results for 2007

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:00:00 EST

Appian, an innovative global provider of business process management (BPM) technology, today announced that results for 2007 were the best in the company's eight-year history, with record results in new customer success, existing customer up-sells, and overall revenue. For the second year in a row, Appian's new customer-acquisition growth rate was greater than 160 percent. The upward trajectory through the year led to Q4 results of the second-highest customer bookings in the company's history, expansion of its solution-delivery partnership footprint, and a substantial year-end backlog of contracted orders that positions Appian for a strong and profitable 2008.

"Our dedication to customers, and our commitment to ensuring that the benefits of BPM are maximized across all levels of their business, resulted in many significant new contracts within our existing installed base," said Matthew Calkins, Appian president and chief executive officer. "That, in combination with our slate of new customer wins across several high-growth market sectors, made 2007 a banner year for Appian."

Several leading firms chose Appian in the fourth quarter of 2007, including United Parcel Service, Swiss Re (the world's leading and most diversified global re-insurer), and Crawford and Company (the world's largest independent provider of claims solutions), among others. High customer satisfaction in these and other markets also led to up-sells throughout the year. Appian booked substantial new contract awards with several existing clients, including AGF, Mercer, Archstone-Smith, World Bank, Instill, Pearson, FDIC, and the U.S. Army.

Sami Hassanein, director of EBPM Platforms at Swiss Re, said, "Appian offered us a mature, stable, easy-to-use, and rich BPM platform. Its workflow capabilities will be our primary focus. The Appian product perfectly integrates into our existing product landscape. Additionally, we received excellent and professional support and commitment from the Appian team during the evaluation project, which also enables us to look forward to a long term future together."

Michael Fortini, director of compliance at Pearson plc, said, "We implemented the Appian Compliance Manager as a way to leverage the BPM platform for crucial financial processes including continuous testing, which helped us evolve from a manual system and audit based approach and delivered great benefits in information access for auditing and compliance verification purposes. We have found both Appian's technology and people to be top-notch, and anticipate increased returns as we implement new features and enhancements."

Appian continued to strengthen its global go-to-market position with a host of new strategic channel partnerships in 2007. In Q4, the company inked agreements with Cape Clear (the Enterprise Service Bus platform leader), Innovass (in Spain), SMART (a U.K. expansion of Appian's existing U.S. relationship), and Valion (in Switzerland). These new partners join earlier 2007 additions to the Appian partner program including Wipro and Saytam (both top five India-based solution providers), BearingPoint (for multiple implementations across EMEA), SAIC (for solution delivery to its defense client base), Advent Global (which has developed an integration framework for SAP), Web Results in Italy, and EXODUS in Greece.

Appian's position as a BPM technology and market leader was recognized in 2007 by key industry analysts. In Q4, Gartner, Inc. positioned Appian in the leaders quadrant in its "Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites, 2007." Earlier in the year, Forrester recognized Appian as a leader in both "The Forrester Wave: Human-Centric BPMS for Banking and Investments, Q3 2007," and "The Forrester Wave: Human-Centric BPM for Java Platforms, Q3 2007."

"Appian will maintain its steadfast focus on making innovative BPM simple," continued Calkins. "We are looking forward to building on our success in 2008 and beyond."

Appian Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in Recent Business Process Management Suite Magic Quadrant

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:00:00 EST

Appian, an innovative global provider of business process management (BPM) technology, today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant in the "Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites, 2007" (Gartner, Inc. "Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites, 2007" by J. Hill, et al. December 14, 2007.)

According to the report, "The products from all leaders have unique features that make sophisticated technical capabilities much more accessible to business process analysts and operational managers... Many leaders exhibit strong innovation in the products, business models, consulting and educational services, and solutions."

"Appian is pleased to be positioned by Gartner in this way. This is the latest in a year of industry recognitions that validate the hard work and innovative spirit of our management team and staff," said Matt Calkins, Appian chief executive officer. "We have led the market in BPM innovation since 1999, delivering the first and only comprehensive BPM suite that is simple to use, and easily customizable to the unique needs of individual businesses. Appian Enterprise's 100 percent web-based architecture, combined with key document management, real-time analytics, and monitoring capabilities, simplifies process collaboration and innovation between business and IT, allowing all users across the organization to be part of the process of achieving corporate goals."

Appian Enterprise delivers fully integrated process, knowledge and analytics capabilities to drive quantifiable ROI and expedite the delivery of next-generation, process-driven solutions. Appian Enterprise provides organizations with the industry's most sophisticated platform for rapidly developing and deploying composite process applications, and is the industry's only enterprise-class BPM solution to effectively put process innovation in the hands of business users.

Appian and Valion Consulting AG Form Strategic Partnership to Deliver BPM Solutions Across Switzerland

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:00:00 EST

Appian, an innovative global provider of business process management (BPM) technology, and Valion Consulting AG, a leading Swiss consulting company in the field of performance and process management, today announced they have entered into a strategic partnership.

The Appian and Valion Consulting partnership will continue the companies' penetration into the Swiss marketplace and offer a unique and complete BPM solution to businesses. By incorporating both collaboration and business intelligence in the context of BPM, the Appian solution will provide Valion Consulting with a distinct advantage for its existing clients as well as prospective business.

Valion Consulting is already working with Swiss enterprises, particularly those in the transportation, logistics, banking and insurance industries, that are looking for agility and innovation in their business processes to build up and defend their competitive advantage. This existing experience, coupled with the innovative Appian BPM suite, will make process improvement a reality for all employees in an organisation.

Valion Consulting Partner Marco Brogini, Ph.D.: "The partnership with Appian has a strong strategic importance for Valion Consulting. Appian's BPM suite fits extremely well in our service portfolio because of its ease of use and strong team-based and collaborative nature. We found that by working together, we will truly be able to help Swiss enterprises bridge the gap between business and IT. This flexibility offered by Appian provides a superior platform for us to deliver new process-driven solutions, while also increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of existing customer solutions."

Appian Managing Director, EMEA, Justin Thomas: "Valion Consulting has vast experience in the BPM market. Together, Appian and Valion Consulting will empower Swiss organisations to simplify process innovation, delivering real-time visibility and control to improve the critical processes that determine business performance. Appian is looking forward to building a strong, long-term partnership with Valion Consulting to make process improvement a reality for Swiss enterprises."

Appian and Cape Clear Announce Partnership

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:00:00 EST

Appian, an innovative global provider of business process management (BPM) technology, announces a new alliance with Cape Clear Software, the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Platform leader. The combination enables the design, development and deployment of end-to-end business processes spanning system-to-system integration and service orchestration with Cape Clear's ESB platform, and advanced human-facing process management delivered by Appian's comprehensive BPM suite, Appian Enterprise.

Customers can now enjoy the benefits of an integrated BPM and ESB environment that facilitates rapid time to solution, process simplification and less complex integration to existing systems. By bridging the gap between human interactions and system interactions, users of the combined solution will significantly improve their ability to change and modify enterprise process applications while leveraging the benefits of service oriented architecture (SOA).

Appian and Cape Clear have already engaged in multiple opportunities across a variety of industries in North America. Future plans will focus on leveraging implementation and support best practices, embedded components, and other new features that extend the capabilities of both products.

"Clients are increasingly looking to bring together SOA and BPM in order to connect IT assets with the processes that ultimately consume them," commented Ian Charlesworth, principal analyst at Ovum. "This partnership plays directly to this market demand."

"SOA plus BPM is a compelling combination for enterprises, but although it is an easy equation to write down, in practice it is not easy to bring the value of these two initiatives together," says Neil Ward-Dutton, research director at analyst firm Macehiter Ward-Dutton. "This partnership leverages the strengths of two best-of-breed technology providers to help customers address the opportunities and challenges that come from pursuing BPM and SOA together."

"With this partnership, Cape Clear's ESB is blazing a trail in on-demand, system-to-system integration and process management," said Rich Novak, vice president worldwide sales and service at Cape Clear. "Our customers are coming to us with an increasing set of use cases where their integrations and services need to interact with people in diverse and rich ways. We can now offer them sophisticated support for human workflows via this partnership with Appian. This is further evidence of the central role played by the ESB in all aspects of business integration and automation."

"This partnership enables organizations to align their SOA and BPM objectives from the project start," commented Samir Gulati, vice president, marketing at Appian. "Customers will realize a better long-term return on both investments."

For more information about Appian Enterprise, please visit http://www.appian.com/product.jsp. For more information on Cape Clear's leading ESB software, please visit http://www.capeclear.com/products/overview.shtml or contact sales at sales@capeclear.com. To download a copy of the Cape Clear ESB, please visit http://www.capeclear.com/download/.

Appian Enterprise Delivers Ongoing Process Excellence to Customers

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:00:00 EST

Simplicity and scalability - two words that differentiate Appian Enterprise, the business process management (BPM) suite from Appian, an innovative global provider of BPM technology. With enhancements that have been integrated into the product over the past year culminating in today's new release, as well as new features that will be available in upcoming releases, Appian continues to deliver the most compelling BPM solutions to the market, simplifying business innovation through flexible, comprehensive and easy-to-use technology.

On the heels of a stellar third quarter where Appian generated the second-highest order volume in the company's history, today's new release of Appian Enterprise provides customers with multiple new enhancements that simplify process collaboration and innovation between business and IT, allowing all users across the organization to be part of the process of achieving corporate goals. New enhancements optimize the product's performance under high load; reduce memory utilization; improve manageability; improve the product's already impressive performance; and add benchmarking components.

Forrester Analyst Colin Teubner discussed Appian's BPM suite in The Forrester Wave: Human-Centric BPM For Java Platforms, Q3 2007. His report stated: "Appian Enterprise is designed for simplicity, and it shows. [The product] is the easiest to use for building processes that pull together human work, analytics, and collaboration tools. It also has extremely powerful methods for administering massive numbers of end users."

Earlier this year, Appian incorporated new user-friendly features into Appian Enterprise that included an improved AJAX-powered interface designer and rules creator, real-time analytics, and desktop and Microsoft Office integration -- all designed to simplify and make BPM more accessible to everyone within the organization.

As the challenges and requirements encountered by businesses worldwide continue to evolve, so too does Appian Enterprise, growing with customers to utilize process as a way to empower the business. Simplicity and scalability will continue to be key themes for the product, and development will focus on making Appian Enterprise easier to use, develop and manage, as well as allowing for better utilization of system resources so the solution is lighter and quicker in Web browsers and has the ability to support the most demanding process environments.

In addition, Appian Enterprise is already available to customers as a subscription-based model and hosted platform; in 2008, Appian will enable a complete software-as-a-service market offering, including trial licenses, turn-key enablement of environments and a complete solution marketplace with pre-built process applications.

"Appian is proud of how we work with our customers to allow them to embrace process as a tool for competitive advantage," said Ali Alavi, Appian vice president of software development. "Over the past several years, as Appian has achieved enormous successes in winning new business in the enterprise BPM market, Appian Enterprise continues to meet the demands of 21st century businesses. We will continue to deliver the industry's easiest to use, develop and manage BPM suite to the market to truly empower the business users of today as well as tomorrow."

For more information about Appian Enterprise, please visit http://www.appian.com/product.jsp.

Appian and TeamCatapult Partner to Empower U.S. Federal Government to Maximize BPM Investments

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:00:00 EST

Appian, an innovative global provider of business process management (BPM) technology, and TeamCatapult, a management and technology services company, today announced a strategic partnership designed to deliver BPM solutions to the U.S. federal government. Appian's deep technical expertise and leading BPM suite together with TeamCatapult's business consulting services will enable U.S. government agencies to maximize their technology investment and strategize ongoing business improvement.

Leading government agencies are increasingly looking to BPM solutions to help streamline the business of government. Daily challenges, such as budgetary constraints, policy changes, and public demands for greater accountability continually push organizations to drive improvements in productivity and work quality by automating complex business processes and providing real-time access to critical information and applications.

Since its founding in 1999, Appian has been working with government agencies and key systems integrators to enable agency-wide process improvements. The automation of complex processes and the provision of real-time access to critical information and applications drive significant, measurable improvements in productivity and work quality.

"TeamCatapult's deep consulting expertise is a natural complement to Appian's BPM technology," said Joe Barry, Appian vice president, channels and alliances. "TeamCatapult's consulting methodology, project management, and continuous process improvement skills will benefit our common U.S. government customers and empower them to maximize their BPM investment agency-wide."

"Successful BPM projects demand an enterprise-wide approach, clearly defined business processes, sufficient attention to personnel and cultural impacts, and an on-going plan for continuous process improvement," stated Sara Kindsfater-Yerkes, vice president, TeamCatapult. "By marrying Appian's BPM technology with TeamCatapult's team of consultants, we will empower U.S. government agencies to achieve continuous process improvement through the alignment of IT systems and business processes."

For more information on Appian's expertise in delivering BPM solutions to government organizations, please visit http://www.appian.com/solutions/government.jsp. For more information on TeamCatapult's BPM expertise, please visit http://www.teamcatapult.com/aoe_bpm.html.

Exodus Selects Appian as BPM Solution Provider for Greek and Southeast European Financial Services Customers

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:00:00 EST

Appian, an innovative global provider of business process management (BPM) technology, and EXODUS, one of the major software solutions companies in Greece, today announced that they have formed a strategic partnership to deliver BPM solutions to financial services organisations in Greece and other Southeast European countries.

Following an extensive and rigorous review of global BPM software providers, EXODUS selected Appian's BPM Suite as the most agile, comprehensive and easy-to-use solution that would deliver the greatest value to its financial services customer base.

"EXODUS has identified Appian's BPM suite as the easiest to deploy and to use, putting the power of process in the hands of the business decision makers," said Justin Thomas, Appian managing director, EMEA. "We are confident that Greek and SE European financial services organisations seeking to improve the management of their business processes will find that Appian's BPM suite drives business innovation and provides real-time visibility into their organisations."

"EXODUS works closely with each customer to help them maximise the benefits of the technology solutions we deliver to help them meet their business goals," said Andrianos Drougas, EXODUS commercial director. "By delivering Appian's BPM solution to our financial service customers, EXODUS will empower customers to improve their overall functionality and performance, reduce costs, and increase the effectiveness of management."

Appian works with financial services organisations around the world to help them manage regulation, globalisation and consolidation issues, and has seen triple digit growth in financial services customers over the past year. With a large number of dedicated financial services resources and significant research and development efforts focusing on financial services industry needs, Appian's BPM suite provides smart services, rules, pre-built forms and interfaces, and process templates specific to the needs of financial services orga and consolidation issues, and has seen triple digit growth in financial services customers over the past year. With a large number of dedicated financial services resources and significant research and development efforts focusing on financial services industry needs, Appian's BPM suite provides smart services, rules, pre-built forms and interfaces, and process templates specific to the needs of financial services organisations. Thus, customers are able to get to market faster with financial services applications and processes such as loan origination, account origination, credit management, and compliance with financial industry standards and regulations.

For more information on how Appian BPM suite and solutions meet the needs of financial services organisations worldwide, please visit http://www.appian.com/solutions/industry/financialservices.jsp.

Appian Announces Stellar Q3 2007 Results

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:00:00 EST

Appian, an innovative global provider of business process management (BPM) technology, today announced that results for the third quarter of 2007 show the company's position as a leader in the BPM market continues to grow. Q3 2007 saw the second-highest order volume in the company's eight-year history. Based on pipeline visibility, Appian expects this growth trend to continue through early 2008.

The success of the quarter was driven by existing account growth as well as new customer wins in the financial services and government agency sectors, where Appian has a long-established position of dominance. These market sectors have matured in terms of BPM adoption based on the value of process innovation for creating new efficiencies and economies of scale, establishing and monitoring regulatory compliance, increasing partner and employee collaboration, and driving revenue growth.

"Appian enables global organizations to simplify process innovation, delivering the real-time visibility and control needed to optimize the critical processes that determine business performance," said Matthew Calkins, Appian president and chief executive officer. "The tremendous success of our third quarter, and the trajectory it represents of our increasing position as a market leader, is a testament to the value of our BPM technology and expertise, including the market's first and only comprehensive BPM suite."

A Financial Services Leader - In the third quarter of 2007, Appian added three global 1000 financial services leaders to a customer roster that already includes organizations such as the European Bank for Reconstruction, Real Capital LLC (an affiliate company of Barclays North, Inc.), the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, World Bank Group, and more.

Appian's position as a leader in BPM for financial services organizations was recognized by Forrester Research in its August 2007 report, "Forrester Wave: Human-Centric BPMS For Banking and Investments, Q3 2007." In the independent report, Appian received the highest score in current offering for the vendors evaluated. The report cited requirements such as rapid speed-to-market and modification abilities, the ability to simplify processes and measure results, and easy integration and service-oriented architecture support as key criteria.

Mary Pilecki, Forrester Research analyst, and author of the Forrester Wave report, stated, "Strong prebuilt processes for both banking and investments help build the high score, but Appian also excels in compliance with a separate compliance manager tool to support the needs of FSIs [financial services institutions]. One of only two firms to score equally well in investments and banking functionality, Appian offers strong FI leadership and expertise."

A Government Agencies Leader - Appian's success with existing deployments at the U.S. Army and the Defense Information Systems Agency led to third quarter growth within those accounts, as well as new wins with a host of other agencies. Based on proven success with large-scale deployments, Appian won new competitively-bid contracts with the U.S. Treasury, the Defense Acquisition University, and United Space Alliance.

These agencies have embraced Appian's BPM suite for its ability to foster human collaboration in addition to process automation, and for the value generated by removing "stove-pipe" approaches to deliver a holistic, agency-wide view of common processes. This is evident in the deployment of Appian's BPM procurement module, Appian Acquisition Manager, at a number of agencies. These agencies realize that cost savings can only come from a collaborative, process-oriented approach to cost management that is flexible enough to keep up with dynamic processes.

Partnership Growth - The results of the quarter were rounded out by significant growth in Appian's global partnership program. New significant partners in the third quarter included Wipro and Saytam (both top five India-based solution providers), BearingPoint (for multiple implementations across EMEA), SAIC (for solution delivery to its defense client base), Smart Group (for solution delivery in insurance markets), Advent Global (which has developed an integration framework for SAP), and two new partners in the European Union (Web Results in Italy, and EXODUS in Greece).

"Appian has been a leader in BPM innovation since 1999," continued Calkins. "We understand that flexibility, comprehensiveness, and ease-of-use are the hallmarks of a truly valuable BPM solution. Appian embodies those qualities, and the market continues to respond enthusiastically."

Gateway Health Plan Selects Appian to Support Strategic Compliance Efforts

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:00:00 EST

Appian, an innovative global provider of business process management (BPM) technology, today announced that Gateway Health Plan selected Appian Compliance Manager to enable smooth administrative processes for compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley regulations. By announced that Gateway Health Plan selected Appian Compliance Manager to enable smooth administrative processes for compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley regulations. By documenting and reporting on all compliance activities, Appian Compliance Manager provides organizations with a tool to cost-effectively automate, monitor, modify, and govern critical business processes in real-time to ensure consistent compliance with current regulatory laws.

"As a large Medicare and Medicaid managed care organization in Pennsylvania and Ohio, Gateway Health Plan seeks to comply with all applicable SOX regulations, while providing our members, healthcare providers and regulators with the best services available," said Eric Huss, vice president and chief financial officer for Gateway Health Plan. "Appian delivers a comprehensive solution that will provide our organization with visibility into our compliance activities and result in opportunities for oversight and administrative controls. Appian Compliance Manager is a tool that we expect to be highly effective in automating and managing compliance activities that are integrated into Gateway's services and day-to-day operations."

With Appian Compliance Manager, Gateway Health Plan is able to identify potential issues, track resolutions across the entire company and report on activity status in real-time. Gateway Health Plan also plans to leverage Appian Enterprise, Appian's innovative BPM technology, to automate and manage a variety of additional corporate processes.

"Regulatory compliance mandates require organizations to monitor all areas of a business, not just a single department or function. That is why stand-alone compliance solutions do not provide organizations with the confidence that all of their regulatory requirements are met," said Marc Wilson, Appian vice president of professional services. "Companies like Gateway Health Plan recognize that a BPM-based solution can integrate all aspects of a company's operations, and select Appian Compliance Manager to add structure, flexibility and visibility into their compliance activities."

Appian Compliance Manager is an agile next-generation composite application capable of adapting and adjusting to different organizations' unique regulatory requirements. Appian Compliance Manager is designed to support best practices regulations such as auditing, and financial compliance such as Sarbanes-Oxley. It efficiently manages complete compliance efforts by allowing organizations to import and document financial data into COSO-based, industry-specific control frameworks; notify participants of key actions required to achieve compliance; and assign control tests and evaluate results. Appian Compliance Manager also allows users to raise, track, and remediate issues and generate personalized dashboard-style reports - all from a single consolidated Web-based environment.

For more information on Appian Compliance Manager, please visit http://www.appian.com/solutions/business/compliance.jsp.

Appian Named a Leader in Human-Centric BPMS for Banking and Investments by Leading Independent Research Firm

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:00:00 EST

Appian, an innovative global provider of business process management (BPM) technology, was recognized as a Leader in the August 2007 report The Forrester Wave: Human-Centric BPMS for Banking And Investments, Q3 2007. Forrester noted Appian's "human-centric BPMS capabilities and deep pre-built processes for banks and investment firms" helped the company establish its position as a leader with banking and investments organizations. This industry recognition follows Appian's placement as a Leader in The Forrester Wawas recognized as a Leader in the August 2007 report The Forrester Wave: Human-Centric BPMS for Banking And Investments, Q3 2007. Forrester noted Appian's "human-centric BPMS capabilities and deep pre-built processes for banks and investment firms" helped the company establish its position as a leader with banking and investments organizations. This industry recognition follows Appian's placement as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Human-Centric BPM For Java Platforms, Q3 2007, released August 2, 2007, where Forrester found that Appian's BPM suite, Appian Enterprise, "is the easiest to use for building processes that pull together human work, analytics, and collaboration tools."

In The Forrester Wave: Human-Centric BPMS for Banking And Investments, Q3 2007, Forrester states that Appian "excels in compliance with a separate compliance manager tool to support the needs of FSIs [financial services institutions]... Appian offers strong FI [financial institution] leadership and expertise. Other strengths include a very solid interface framework with a three-tiered approach to interfacing with common banking and investment applications. Finally, Appian has built crosschannel capabilities that specifically enable visibility across all channels and support the idea of a single enterprise process, configurable by channel and LOB [line of business]".

"Managing business processes is not a one-size-fits-all solution, and businesses in the highly regulated banking and investments industry have unique process challenges," stated Matt Calkins, Appian chief executive officer. "Appian has been diligent in building a product that empowers financial services customers to proactively address their process, business and regulatory requirements. The placement of Appian as a Leader on this Forrester Wave reflects our ongoing commitment to driving tangible benefits in financial services institutions."

Appian works with financial services organizations around the world to help them manage regulation, globalization and consolidation issues. With a large number of dedicated financial services resources and significant research and development efforts focusing on financial services industry needs, Appian's BPM suite provides smart services, rules, pre-built forms and interfaces, and process templates specific to the needs of financial services organizations. Thus, customers are able to get to market faster with financial services applications and processes such as loan origination, account origination, credit management, and compliance with financial industry standards and regulations.

For more information on how Appian BPM suite and solutions meet the needs of financial services organizations worldwide, please visit http://www.appian.com/solutions/industry/financialservices.jsp. For more information about Appian Enterprise, please visit http://www.appian.com/product.jsp.

Appian Compliance Manager Chosen by KMWorld Magazine as a Trend-Setting Product of 2007

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:00:00 EST

Appian, an innovative global provider of business process management (BPM) technology, today announced that Appian Compliance Manager was recognized as a "Trend-Setting Product of 2007" by KMWorld Magazine, the leading information provider serving the knowledge management systems market. Appian Compliance Manager is a flexible corporate compliance solution that focuses on managing risk, performing self-assessments and audits, enforcing rules and regulations and increasing accountability.

Hugh McKellar, KMWorld editor in chief, said: "More than 650 individual products were considered by our team of editors, analysts, integrators and users. Each and every company whose products were chosen for this year's list of Trend-Setting Products is being acknowledged for its willingness to listen and serve its customers in useful and innovative ways."

Appian Compliance Manager enables organizations to cost-effectively automate, monitor, modify, and govern critical business processes in real time to ensure compliance with regulations and internal procedures. Built on Appian's innovative BPM suite, a comprehensive solution that simplifies process collaboration between business and IT users, Appian Compliance Manager adapts to different organizations' unique regulatory requirements.

"Through working closely with our global customer base, it was evident that a flexible solution was needed to help customers simplify innovation while meeting the regulatory requirements that guide their businesses," stated Marc Wilson, Appian vice president, professional services. "Appian Compliance Manager empowers customers to simplify process improvement across all levels of an organization. We are honored that the product was recognized by KMWorld and look forward to continuing to deliver comprehensive solutions that address existing and emerging process challenges of our global client base."

Appian and Dominion Digital Form Strategic Alliance

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:00:00 EST

Appian, an innovative global provider of business process management (BPM) technology, today announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with Dominion Digital, a regional business and technology consulting firm. Through this collaboration, Appian and Digital Dominion will deliver BPM solutions to financial services and healthcare organizations in the mid-Atlantic region.

Appian delivers one of the strongest BPM solutions on the market, providing customers with one of the easiest solutions to deploy and manage, which ensures customers quickly gain value, even in the most complex environments. Together with Dominion Digital, customers will not only realize the benefits of Appian's industry-leading BPM technology, but also will have access to deep expertise to develop efficient, repeatable business processes that create synergy across the organization and tie performance to strategy.

"Appian empowers organizations to easily enable process improvement and innovation," said Joe Barry, Appian vice president of channels and alliances. "Our partnership with Dominion Digital will deliver customers the strengths of Appian's BPM suite and the deep consulting and industry expertise of Dominion Digital, ensuring BPM is implemented in a way that makes sense for their businesses."

"The Dominion Digital and Appian partnership will enable regional companies to further differentiate from the competition by realizing the business benefits BPM delivers," said Chris Little, Dominion Digital founding principal and chief executive officer. "Dominion Digital's leadership in operational performance improvement together with Appian's leading BPM suite will decrease time to market, reduce the costs of operations and regulatory compliance, and provide real-time visibility into business performance."

Appian's BPM Suite, Appian Enterprise, provides fully integrated process, knowledge and analytics capabilities to drive quantifiable ROI and expedite the delivery of next-generation, process-driven solutions. Appian Enterprise provides organizations with the industry's most sophisticated platform for rapidly developing and deploying next-generation composite process applications, and is the industry's only enterprise-class BPM solution to combine best-of-breed process management with broad collaboration and strong analytics functionality, effectively bringing process management capabilities to a much wider audience.

Dominion Digital's Business Process Management Solutions group brings experience, business process and technical leadership and commitment to their clients. Dominion Digital's thorough approach, rapid delivery of results and collaborative working style energizes employees and inspires and supports managers in driving business value.

Appian Appoints Brian Pettit Vice President of Sales

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:00:00 EST

Appian, an innovative global provider of business process management (BPM) technology, today announced Brian Pettit, a proven leader in customer acquisition and account management, has joined the company as its new Vice President of Sales. In this role, Pettit is responsible for directing global sales and business development operations for Appian's Business Process Management (BPM) solutions.

"By providing the most agile, comprehensive and easy-to-use BPM solutions available, Appian has established itself as a thought and innovation leader in the Business Process Management arena," said Matt Calkins, Appian chief executive officer. "Brian Pettit will play an integral role in our aggressive growth in the upcoming years, extending Appian's leadership through strategic, customer-focused sales initiatives that ensure each customer's BPM investment is maximized and benefits are realized across all levels of the business. We look forward to leveraging Brian's experience to build on our existing competitive lead."

As a veteran of information technology enabling business transformation and process improvement, Mr. Pettit's experience included leading sales and alliances at HandySoft, where he accelerated customer and partner development. He also served as the director of integration solution sales at NetManage and was responsible for directing North American sales and business development operations and developing key partnerships. Prior to NetManage, Mr. Pettit was the vice president of business development at Comensura, a division of Corporate Services Group, and provided sales, marketing and partner alliance leadership tasks for customer expansion and acquisitions.

"Appian is consistently recognized by customers, partners and independent analysts firms not only as a leading provider of BPM solutions, but also as a technology innovator focused on real world customer needs," stated Mr. Pettit. "I look forward to leading the company's sales efforts to deliver solutions that empower global organizations to simplify process improvement and innovation, while escalating Appian's position in the marketplace."

Appian Named a Leader in Human-Centric BPM for Java Platforms by Leading Independent Research Firm

Thu, 2 Aug 2007 14:00:00 EST

Appian, an innovative global provider of business process management (BPM) technology, was recognized as a leader in The Forrester Wave: Human-Centric BPM For Java Platforms, Q3 2007. Recognized for its strong analytics and collaboration capabilities, Appian was among the select companies that Forrester invited to participate in this Forrester Wave Report, which evaluated leading human-centric business process management suite (BPMS) vendors across approximately 150 criteria. Forrester found that Appian's BPM suite, Appian Enterprise, "is the easiest to use for building processes that pull together human work, analytics, and collaboration tools."

The report highlights Appian's competitive advantages and key differentiators, stating: "This pure-play process specialist has a background in BI, as well as in monstrous deployments in terms of the number of users... It also has extremely powerful methods for administering massive numbers of end users. The company has true thought leadership in integrating BPM with BI, and also in expanding BPM to include collaboration tools for ad hoc processes."

The Forrester Wave goes on to state "Appian's thought leadership in the areas of analytics and collaboration raises the bar for other vendors and truly differentiates the product. In addition, Appian's development environment is one of the most user-friendly of all those we evaluated, without sacrificing functionality along the way... It is 100% Web-based with configurable and granular access. There is also an 'impact analysis' UI that clearly outlines the hypothetical and real impacts of changes to processes."

"The 100% Web-based product's excellent reporting capabilities and modeling environment make it one of the most powerful products in this market. Appian Enterprise unifies business intelligence (BI), collaboration, content, and process features."

"By focusing on critical areas, such as collaboration, analytics and runtime processing, Appian has established itself as a thought and innovation leader in the Business Process Management arena," said Matt Calkins, Appian chief executive officer. "Appian not only delivers one of the strongest BPM solutions on the market, but we also provide customers with one of the easiest solutions to deploy and manage, which ensures that they quickly gain value, even in the most complex environments."

Appian Enterprise provides fully integrated process, knowledge and analytics capabilities to drive quantifiable ROI and expedite the delivery of next-generation, process-driven solutions. Appian Enterprise provides organizations with the industry's most sophisticated platform for rapidly developing and deploying next-generation composite process applications and is the industry's only enterprise-class BPM solution to combine best-of-breed process management with broad collaboration and strong analytics functionality, effectively bringing process management capabilities to a much wider audience.

Real Capital Automates Critical Applications with Appian Enterprise BPM Suite

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:00:00 EST

Appian, the leading provider of Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), announced today that Real Capital LLC, a rapidly growing, financial services company and affiliate of Barclays North, Inc., has completed its initial deployment of the award-winning Appian Enterprise BPM Suite. All processes within Real Capital's Loan Origination System are now automated, including integration with the company's CRM application and Microsoft SharePoint.

Previously dependent on its paper-based processes, Appian Enterprise enables Real Capital to streamline and reduce errors within its loan application processes. Appian Enterprise allows applications and supporting documents to automatically pull customer information from the company's CRM application, eliminating the need for employees to manually input the majority of applicant data. Once the loan application is completed, Appian Enterprise then automatically forwards it to the company's Microsoft SharePoint application, where the information can be accessed by Real Capital's partner lending institutions for review and approval. As changes are made to the application, Appian Enterprise works with SharePoint to automatically update the loan application.

"Since implementing Appian Enterprise at the beginning of this year, Real Capital has gained increased visibility into and control over our entire Loan Origination System, which is a huge asset as we continually strive to improve our processes to better serve our customers," said Thomas Cummings, President of Real Capital. "By improving our person-to-person processes and allowing us to automatically incorporate information from various applications, Appian Enterprise enables us to increase the accuracy of and decrease the time required to create each loan application. Appian's rapid deployment allowed us to gain these competitive advantages within a matter of weeks, which has had a significant impact on the efficiency of our business."

Appian Enterprise provides fully integrated process, knowledge and analytics capabilities to drive quantifiable ROI and expedite the delivery of next-generation, process-driven solutions. Appian Enterprise enables customers to automate, execute and optimize cross-functional business processes from beginning to end. This empowers business users to manage processes that interface with operational and customer-related data systems.

Appian Enterprise provides organizations with the industry's most sophisticated platform for rapidly developing and deploying next-generation composite process applications and is the industry's only enterprise-class BPM solution to combine best-of-breed process management with broad collaboration and strong analytics functionality, effectively bringing process management capabilities to a much wider audience.

"Real Capital's Loan Origination System is integral to the success of its business and by automating the processes and streamlining the entire system, the company is able to better serve its customers and improve the way it works with their lenders," said Michael Beckley, Appian chief technology officer. "As companies work to improve their operating efficiencies, Appian's leading-edge BPM suite enables them to add structure, visibility and control to previously ad hoc processes. This results in greatly improved business performance and agility and is proving to be a significant advantage for Real Capital."

Appian Customer U.S. Army Receives Intergovernmental Solutions Award for Army Knowledge Online Project

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:00:00 EST

Appian, the leading provider of Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), today announced its leading customer, Department of the Army, won the Intergovernmental Solutions Award (ISA) from the American Council for Technology (ACT) for its Army Knowledge Online solution.

Implemented by Appian and based on the company's leading-edge technology, AKO enables the streamlining of enterprise collaboration and facilitation of knowledge management. It provides a way for day-to-day Army operations and knowledge sharing to be coordinated more efficiently.

This year's ISA Awards received over 100 nominations, with 20 finalists and eight winners selected by a committee of government and industry IT professionals. The 2007 ISA winning programs were chosen based upon the following five criteria: Technology Leadership; Intergovernmental Collaboration; Business Transformation; Impact and Results; as well as Availability and Transferability, its ability to be replicable by other organizations and have widespread national or regional application with minimum difficulty

Appian Customer Archstone-Smith to Present A Real World Case Study on its Appian Deployment at BPMInstitute's Leading BPM Conference

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:00:00 EST

Appian, the leading provider of Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), today announced that Archstone-Smith, one of the nation's largest apartment companies, is presenting at BPMInstitute's BPM Conference to discuss its successful and rapid deployment of Appian Enterprise. In addition, Appian is also sponsoring and exhibiting at the conference to showcase its award-winning Appian Enterprise BPM suite (BPMS) along with its Appian Anywhere On-Demand solution. The conference is designed to facilitate knowledge sharing amongst BPM professionals and will host presentationced that Archstone-Smith, one of the nation's largest apartment companies, is presenting at BPMInstitute's BPM Conference to discuss its successful and rapid deployment of Appian Enterprise. In addition, Appian is also sponsoring and exhibiting at the conference to showcase its award-winning Appian Enterprise BPM suite (BPMS) along with its Appian Anywhere On-Demand solution. The conference is designed to facilitate knowledge sharing amongst BPM professionals and will host presentations by the best and brightest industry luminaries, independent analysts and experienced practitioners from world class organizations.

"Archstone-Smith selected Appian's award-winning BPM Suite to rapidly automate its critical business processes and move from paper-based to electronic forms management," said Samir Gulati, Vice President of Marketing, Appian. "We were able to deploy our BPM solution within six months, delivering great value to Archstone-Smith. The company's presentation should provide other attendees with real world examples, insight and next steps of implementing a strategic BPM deployment."

Archstone-Smith's Director of Business Process Management, David Carpenter, will present on "Rapid BPM Deployment: Six Months To Deliver Value" on Tuesday, June 19, 2007 at 2:30 PM - 3:15 PM. Archstone-Smith, one of the nations largest apartment companies, faced three key challenges that prompted the creation of a BPM initiative: high employee turn over, thousands of forms scattered throughout the enterprise, and lack of consistency in processes. With the first of many implementation phases in process, Carpenter will discuss the original business case, the implementation scope, lessons learned, and what's next for BPM at Archstone-Smith.

Appian Enterprise provides fully integrated process, knowledge and analytics capabilities to drive quantifiable ROI and expedite the delivery of next-generation, process-driven solutions. Appian Anywhere is the first full-featured Business Process Management Suite available via an on-demand, software as a service (SaaS) model. The entire award-winning Appian BPM Suite is now available through the Internet browser with no downloads required for modeling or running automated processes.

Appian Named a "Best Place to Work" by Washington Business Journal

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:00:00 EST

Appian, the leading provider of Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), today announced the company was named a winner in Washington Business Journal's Best Places to Work Awards, ranking seventh among the 15 finalists for 'Large companies with local headquarters.' Winners were selected from more than 300 entries.

The Washington Business Journal announced award winners during a breakfast ceremony on June 7th at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Tyson Center, Virginia. The award recognizes a company's achievements in creating a positive work environment that attracts and retains employees through a combination of employee satisfaction, working conditions and company culture.

"Appian is proud to be recognized as a best place to work by Washington Business Journal," said Matthew Calkins, President and CEO, Appian. "We are focused on building and maintaining a dynamic employee base by providing a positive work environment with excellent benefits. This award illustrates the investment and effort that Appian has placed on creating its corporate culture."

Appian maintains an environment where employees can contribute to all aspects of the business and boasts 220 employees. If you are interested in applying for a position with Appian, please visit http://www.appian.com/company/careers.jsp.

Appian Compliance Manager 5.0 Ties Business Processes to Regulations, Reducing Risk and Increasing the Effectiveness of Internal Controls

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:00:00 EST

Appian, the leading provider of Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), today announced the general availability of its latest BPM-based solution, Appian Compliance Manager 5, providing organizations the ability to cost-effectively automate, monitor, modify, and govern critical business processes in real time to ensure compliance with regulations and internal procedures. Built on Appian's industry leading BPM software, Appian Compliance Manager 5 is an agile next-generation composite application capable of adapting to different organizations' unique regulatory requirements.

Appian Compliance Manager 5 is designed to support organizations' compliance with financial regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley; privacy regulations such as HIPAA and the EU Data Directive; and best practices regulations such as the ISO and OSHA standards. The Appian solution efficiently manages companies' complete compliance efforts by allowing them to import and document financial data into COSO-based, industry-specific control frameworks; notify participants of key actions required to achieve compliance; and assign control tests and evaluate results. Appian Compliance Manager 5 also allows users to raise, track, and remediate issues and generate personalized dashboard-style reports -- all from a single consolidated web-based environment.

Addressing global compliance requirements, Appian Compliance Manager 5 is fully internationalized and capable of managing efforts across global, geographically dispersed organizations. As a BPM-based solution, it enables organizations to automate traditionally manual processes, which provides greater insight and the ability to build additional process applications utilizing the core framework. It also delivers increased visibility ble of managing efforts across global, geographically dispersed organizations. As a BPM-based solution, it enables organizations to automate traditionally manual processes, which provides greater insight and the ability to build additional process applications utilizing the core framework. It also delivers increased visibility into the real-time status of an organization's compliance efforts with continually updated reporting. The solution's Active Control Monitoring capabilities enable organizations to create and monitor their internal controls in real-time to help minimize the risk of non-compliance.

"Customers recognize Appian for our ability to significantly improve their operations across the entire business, and as they grapple with compliance issues, Appian is enhancing our solutions to address their growing needs," said Matt Calkins, CEO of Appian. "Based on our leading BPM technology, Appian Compliance Manager was designed to provide customers with the structure, flexibility and visibility to help meet all of the regulatory requirements that guide their business."

Independent BPM Analyst Bruce Silver Recognizes Appian Enterprise 5.6 for Ease of Use and Leading Edge Analytics in 2007 BPMS Report

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:00:00 EST

Appian, the leading provider of Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), today announced the release of an analyst report by Bruce Silver Associates, highlighting the value of Appian Enterprise 5.6, the latest version of Appian's award-winning BPMS. In this technical report that evaluates the latest version's significant updates and competitive advantages, Bruce Silver recognizes Appian Enterprise for taking "a broader view of BPM than most of its competitors" and praises the company for making process management "a focal point of the product's technical architecture."

"In preparing this report, I conducted a complete evaluation of Appian Enterprise 5.6 and was impressed with its combination of usability and leading edge BPM functionality," stated Bruce Silver, Principal Analyst, Bruce Silver Associates. "Appian is different than most BPMSs in the pure-play market with its complete collaboration portal and integrated analytics capabilities."

Underscoring the company's dedication to simplifying BPM and integrating casual users into the process, the report states that Appian Enterprise is one of the few BPMSs to support browser-based design and the only one to provide a hosted SaaS environment, both of which benefit from Appian's extensive use of AJAX. The report recognizes Appian's efforts in delivering a fully web-based WYSIWYG Forms Designer, Process Modeler and business rule designer, stating that "most aspects of [Appian's] implementation design are intended to be business analyst-friendly, and there is no dividing line between modeling and design activities." The report goes on to state that the Forms Designer "lets users rapidly build specialized forms using a simple drag-and-drop interface."

In addition to Appian Enterprise 5.6's usability, the report recognizes the superior flexibility, management and analytics power that it delivers. Silver states: "Unlike most BPMSs, which maintain live process instance data separately from the 'warehouse' of process performance data, Appian's unique Real-Time In-Memory Database does not distinguish between the two, allowing performance reporting based on any set of process data, fully configurable at rument and analytics power that it delivers. Silver states: "Unlike most BPMSs, which maintain live process instance data separately from the 'warehouse' of process performance data, Appian's unique Real-Time In-Memory Database does not distinguish between the two, allowing performance reporting based on any set of process data, fully configurable at runtime."

"Bruce Silver is one of the most respected analysts in the BPM arena, and we are proud of his Appian Enterprise 5.6 evaluation," said Philip Larson, Director of Product Management at Appian. "Appian focuses on delivering a BPM Suite that not only provides leading functionality, but also simplifies the user experience and enables close collaboration, so that our customers see true business benefits and competitive advantages from our solution. Appian Enterprise 5.6 is a significant step beyond the competitive offerings in this space, and we excited by this early feedback from Silver and Associates."

Score Business Solutions Ltd. Partners with Appian to Deliver Industry Leading Business Process Management Suite in Europe and Asia

Tue, 22 May 2007 11:00:00 EST

Appian, the leading provider of Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), today announced that it has signed a partnership with Score Business Solutions Ltd., a Swiss-based consulting company with subsidiaries in Arad, Romania and Hong Kong, to provide Appian Enterprise to businesses in Europe and Asia. Score partners with leading technology providers to deliver the innovative solutions its manufacturing, trading and service customers require to optimize their supply chains. In addition to selling Appian Enterprise directly to its customers, Score is also delivering flexible and agile value-added composite applications built on top of the core Appian BPM infrastructure.

Appian Enterprise delivers a powerful and efficient development environment, enabling Value Added Resellers (VARs) to extend the benefits and return on investments (ROI) of their complementary offerings. Score is adopting Appian's BPM software as a platform for process improvement to both decrease the time to market for their process-based solutions as well as increase the agility of those solutions.

"As the leading BPM Suite on the market, Appian Enterprise enables us to maximize our customers existing technology investments, while also allowing us to deliver new optimized application packages that further increase ROI," said Marcel Weber, CEO at Score. "Our customers trust Score to deliver solutions that address existing issues and future needs. Appian Enterprise fits perfectly with our mission and we are certain that our customers will immediately recognize its power. Additionally, we are incredibly excited about leveraging Appian Anywhere, Appian's new on-demand BPM product offering, to provide our solutions to our customers in a software-as-a-service model."

Appian's BPM software provides organizations with the industry's most sophisticated platform for rapidly developing and deploying next-generation composite process applications. It combines best-of-breed process management with broad collaboration and strong analytics functionality, effectively bringing process to people.

"As VARs like Score look for solutions that help extend the value they deliver to customers, Appian Enterprise provides them with a proven platform for managing strategic business processes and increasing the benefits of their existing, pre-packaged offerings," said Philip Larson, Director of Product Management at Appian. "Appian BPM is recognized as one of the most functional and easy to implement BPM solutions on the market. This flexibility provides a superior platform for our partners to deliver new process-driven solutions, while also increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of their existing solutions."

Appian's Partner Program provides VARs with dedicated support, including marketing, development and technical support to ensure the success of their implementations. Appian also offers the widest range of training tools and options in the BPM market including specialized programs for its VAR partners. Appian courses and certifications offer both business and IT users the skills to effectively use, customize, and develop on Appian Enterprise, and to leverage the BPM suite for greater ROI.

Appian Launches Latest Version of Award-Winning BPM Suite; Delivering Increased Value for Business Users

Mon, 21 May 2007 11:00:00 EST

Appian, the leading provider of Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), today announced the launch of Appian Enterprise 5.6, delivering capabilities for increasing user productivity and improving business operations. With this release, Appian becomes the first vendor to deliver key capabilities that integrate casual business users into the process, allowing for organizations to derive the greatest value out of their BPM implementations. These new user-friendly features include an improved AJAX-powered interface designer and rules creator, real-time analytics, and desktop and RSS Feed integration -- all designed to simplify and make BPM nnounced the launch of Appian Enterprise 5.6, delivering capabilities for increasing user productivity and improving business operations. With this release, Appian becomes the first vendor to deliver key capabilities that integrate casual business users into the process, allowing for organizations to derive the greatest value out of their BPM implementations. These new user-friendly features include an improved AJAX-powered interface designer and rules creator, real-time analytics, and desktop and RSS Feed integration -- all designed to simplify and make BPM more accessible to everyone within the organization.

"Appian recognizes that the only way for organizations to fully tap into the knowledge and ingenuity of their workforce is to empower all users to be part of the process, and this is the philosophy that drove all of the innovations into Appian Enterprise 5.6," said Matt Calkins, CEO of Appian. "BPM should be flexible enough to enable all users to participate in unique, personalized ways, and our latest advancement leverages some of today's leading productivity tools, including AJAX, desktop integration and RSS Feeds to ensure that our users gain the greatest advantage possible from Appian Enterprise."

Appian Enterprise 5.6 is the first BPM Suite to incorporate a browser-based, AJAX environment for creating and managing rules separate from processes, which enables users to quickly adapt policies to address changes within their business environments. Through its AJAX-enabled, browser-based WYSIWG Interface Designer, Appian Enterprise enables customers to create forms, dashboards and other process driven interfaces. Business users can now modify the parameters of rules or policies without being encumbered by the details of the entire process. For example a user can modify inventory thresholds to automatically redistribute stock without requiring the user to alter the entire supply chain. In addition, Appian provides a centralized rules repository so that users can easily manage, implement and reuse processes throughout the entire environment.

Appian Enterprise now incorporates new desktop integration and mobile technology tools, enabling users to leverage the applications they know best to speed implementation, simplify management and increase overall productivity. In addition to Appian's existing Microsoft Outlook plug-in, Appian has added Appian Smart Nodes that enable the manipulation and creation of Word, Excel and E-mail templates. These plug-ins allow users to interact with processes directly from those environments, so that they can easily create processes that increase productivity and simplify collaboration. For example, users can now develop a process that automatically creates and emails documents, such as monthly reports or status updates, to a predetermined group. Appian has also added more than 75 new pre-built activities for facilitating collaboration and participation in process management.

As RSS Feeds have matured to include process lists, task lists, process models, documents and discussion forums, Appian Enterprise 5.6 is integrating these capabilities to help simplify process management. By fully implementing RSS feeds throughout the product, Appian is enabling customers to utilize process management anywhere the user chooses to aggregate their RSS subscriptions -- on the desktop, mobile device, or Web sites.

Appian Enterprise's new patent-pending optimization technology delivers real-time analytic information to drive process improvements, so that users can report on anything, at anytime, in real-time without delays or data loss. This significantly increases the flexibility of process analytics and allows certain processes to "self optimize." For example, traditionally a process might state that a task should be escalated if it is delayed two days, but now Appian enables an escalation to be triggered if the task is taking longer than average or deviates from the norm. The process engine can make real-time queries to the performance engine and access all of the data at any time. These reports can be used in the context of process rules to adjust process flow, trigger exceptions and escalations, modify security privileges or task assignments and display contextual information to a user on a form.

As end-to-end processes now span organizational and geographical boundaries, Appian Enterprise 5.6 is the first BPM solution to provide full support for global, cross-organizational processes that span cultural and language barriers. With a fully internationalized interface to supporting localized forms as well as right-to-left reading, Appian Enterprise has been optimized to support geographically dispersed processes. This provides international organizations with a consistent foundation for structuring and managing all of their critical business processes.

Appian and IBM Host Webinar on Leveraging BPM for Improving Public Sector Supplier Performance

Wed, 16 May 2007 11:00:00 EST

Appian Corporation, the leading supplier of Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), and IBM will present a live one-hour webinar titled "Improve Supplier Oversight with BPM" on May 22, at 2:00 p.m. ET. The webinar will provide attendees with insights and techniques for leveraging BPM technology to increase their visibility into the efficiency of their supplier relationships.

Government organizations are under constant demand to better manage and improve supplier performance. As every supplier is given specific contract guidelines to follow, organizations have traditionally been limited in their ability to monitor where money is being spent, the way contracts are being serviced or the timeliness of delivery.

Associate Partner of IBM's Global Business Services, Keith Strange, and Appian's Senior Solutions Consultant, Puneet Sethi, will discuss different ways these organizations can gain real-time visibility into and better manage supplier relationships. Strange and Sethi will provide attendees with strategies for implementing and managing a business process management (BPM) solution to facilitate supplier interactions and improve spend visibility, supplier performance monitoring, and contract compliance.

What: Webinar - Improve Supplier Oversight with BPM

When: Tuesday, May 22, 2007, 2:00-3:00 p.m. EST

Where: Please register by visiting: http://www.appian.com/promo/campaigns/52207pr.jsp

Who: Appian: Puneet Sethi, Senior Solutions Consultant and IBM: Keith Strange, IBM Global Business Services' Associate Partner

Appian Recognized as a Finalist for the 2007 American Business Awards

Tue, 15 May 2007 11:00:00 EST

Appian, the leading provider of Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), today announced that The American Business Awards has named Appian Enterprise a finalist in the Best New Product or Service category of the annual Stevie Awards.

Appian Enterprise is a comprehensive suite that provides fully integrated process, knowledge and analytics capabilities to drive quantifiable ROI and expedite the delivery of next-generation, process-driven solutions. Appian Enterprise enables customers to design, manage and optimize cross-functional end-to-end business processes empowering business users like never before.

Hailed as "the business world's own Oscars" (New York Post, April 27, 2005), The American Business Awards are the only national, all-encompassing awards program honoring great performances in business.

"Being named a Finalist in The American Business Awards is an important achievement," said Michael Gallagher, founder and president of The Stevie Awards. "It means that independent business executives have agreed that the nominee is worthy of national recognition. We congratulate the companies on their achievement and wish them well in the competition."

Stevie Award winners will be announced during the annual gala on Monday, June 11 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. More than 700 executives from across the U.S.A. are expected to attend. The ceremonies will be videocast on the Internet and broadcast on radio, and hosted by Larry Wilmore of TV's THE DAILY SHOW with JON STEWART.

"Appian has invested heavily in providing our customers with innovative technology that helps them improve their businesses and provides a competitive advantage," said Philip Larson, Director of Product Management at Appian. "Appian is widely recognized by customers, partners and leading analyst firms for the significant advantages our technology provides, and this award further validates of our vision and implementation."

More than 2,000 entries from companies of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted for consideration in more than 40 categories. Members of the Awards' Board of Distinguished Judges and Advisors and their staffs will select Stevie Award winners this week from among Finalists. Finalists were chosen by business professionals nationwide during preliminary judging in April through early May.

Details about The American Business Awards and the list of Finalists in all categories are available at www.stevieawards.com/aba.

Appian to Present Vision for Next Generation BPMS at the 2007 Camp IT Conference

Thu, 10 May 2007 11:00:00 EST

Appian, the leading provider of Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), has been asked to present on "The BPM Investment: Defining the Process, the Involvement and the Specific Impact" at the 2007 Camp IT Conference. In this session Appian's Director of Solution Strategy, John Lojek, discuss how BPM can be used to define, manage, and optimize cross-enterprise business processes within a hybrid environment of people, content and systems.

Attendees will learn how to evaluate where they are along the BPM readiness spectrum and will gain a thorough understanding of how BPM can address their individual business needs. Lojek will provide attendees with a detailed check list for defining processes, evaluating the project scope, and justifying the value of a BPM implementation.

Appian will also sponsor and exhibit at the 2007 Camp IT Conference which is designed to help IT professionals understand new technologies and make the critical, strategic and tactical decisions for their enterprises. Since 1984, CAMP has provided over 20,000 enterpls understand new technologies and make the critical, strategic and tactical decisions for their enterprises. Since 1984, CAMP has provided over 20,000 enterprise IT executives, management and technical staff with a consistent format for exchanging ideas and collaborating on IT solutions.

The Camp IT Conference will be held at the Stevens Convention Center, Rosemont (O'Hare), Illinois. Appian will be located in conference room 44.

The Camp IT Conference will take place on May 10, 2007 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Appian will exhibit during the entire conference and executive John Lojek will present on a panel from 8:30-9:30am.

For more information on the 2007 Camp IT Conference, visit: http://www.campconferences.com/events/2007/bpm.htm.

The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Selects Appian's Award-Winning BPM Suite to Automate Co-Pay Assistance Program

Wed, 2 May 2007 11:00:00 EST

Appian, the leading provider of Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), today announced that The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, the world's largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education and patient services, selected Appian Enterprise to automate and structure the application process for its Co-Pay Assistance Program.

The Society's Co-Pay Assistance Program offers assistance to patients toward private health insurance premiums, private insurance co-pay obligations, and Medicare Part B, Medicare Plan D, Medicare Supplementary Health Insurance and Medicare Advantage premium or co-pay obligations. The organization chose Appian Enterprise to support the entire applicant workflow process, supporting online, faxed and mailed applications.

"Appian Enterprise gives us the capacity to implement a flexible yet robust framework for handling our co-pay applicants' needs," said Jon Lowell, the Society's Chief Information Officer. "We chose Appian because it enables us to automate and optimize both our co-pay and other business processes from beginning to end and helps ensure that we are best serving our constituents."

Using Appian's leading BPMS, the Society is streamlining and automating its entire application process to better serve its constituents and reduce operating costs. This increased efficiency also enables the organization to more effectively respond to applicant queries and address its constituents' needs. As the only BPM solution to address both application and human interactions, Appian Enterprise is enabling the Society to structure applicant processes as well as the guidelines for handling and evaluating all applications, delivering a uniform system for delivering benefits.

Appian's award-winning BPMS is the industry's only enterprise-class BPM solution to combine best-of-breed process management with broad collaboration and strong analytics functionality. Providing organizations with the industry's most sophisticated platform for rapidly developing and deploying next-generation composite process applications, Appian Enterprise enables customers to increase operational efficiencies by managing, tracking and implementing procedures to support its application processes.

"Volunteer establishments are faced with the daunting task of structuring ever changing and fluid organizations of people and processes," said Matt Calkins, CEO at Appian. "Appian's BPMS provides the tools necessary to automate processes seamlessly and effectively, enabling The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society to efficiently serve its constituents and ensuring that the organization is attaining its mission."

As the foundation for documenting, controlling, automating and reporting on business processes, Appian Enterprise provides the scalability to quickly automate critical processes. The industry-leading Appian Enterprise BPM suite provides fully integrated process, knowledge and analytics capabilities to drive quantifiable ROI and expedite the delivery of next-generation, process-driven solutions. Appian Enterprise enables customers to automate, execute and optimize cross-functional business processes from beginning to end.

Appian Highlights Vision, Technology and Industry Leadership at Shared Insights BPM Conference

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:00:00 EST

Appian, the leading provider of Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), today announced that the company will be highlighting its technology and market leadership at this week's Shared Insights BPM Conference on Tuesday, April 24 and Wednesday, April 25, 2007. As part of the conference, Appian will be participating in several sessions and events to deliver expert insights on how organizations can leverage BPM solutions to improve productivity, increase visibility and gain corporate agility.

During the conference, Appian's CEO and Founder Matt Calkins will host the BPM Breakfast and will participate in a panel discussion, highlighting emerging trends in business process management and process improvement. Using BPM as a process improvement platform, organizations can harness the power of service-oriented architecture (SOA), integrate extended internet technologies (including wireless and voice), and orchestrate the activities of people and teams, ultimately creating corporate agility. Calkins will also provide insights into how companies can leverage their BPM solutions to both address emerging business challenges and take advantage of future business opportunities.

On the show floor, John Lojek, Appian's Director of Product Marketing, is conducting a theater presentation, titled: "Using BPM to Create Agile Applications." These sessions will provide attendees with real world examples and techniques for utilizing BPM technology to drive efficiency into end-to-end processes, so that they can adapt quickly to address market changes and stay ahead of the competition.

"The Shared Insights BPM Conference is widely regarded as one of the best commercial conferences in the industry, and Appian is proud to play a prominent role in such a respected event," said Matt Calkins, CEO and Founder, Appian. "Appian's involvement in this conference provides us the ability to not only provide our insights and vision for optimizing BPM implementations using innovative technologies, but it also allows us to connect with some of the most sophisticated and informed users in the industry. This interaction is extremely valuable as we continue deliver innovative solutions, like our Appian Anywhere on-demand solution, to address real-world pain points."

AGF Selects Appian Enterprise BPM Suite to Increase Efficiency of Credit Fulfillment and Servicing Applications

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:00:00 EST

Appian, the leading provider of Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), announced today that AGF Management Limited, one of Canada's premier investment management companies, has purchased Appian Enterprise to deliver increased control over and visibility into key business processes. Initially, AGF is using Appian Enterprise to streamline and add increased structure to its credit fulfillment and credit servicing processes, with plans to roll it out for additional strategic applications within the next 12 months.

"As one of the leading investment management firms in Canada, AGF has a number of regulatory, internal and customer facing processes that drive our business, and we required a BPM solution that could help us structure and gain increased efficiency from these processes," said John Bennett, Executive Vice President at AGF.

After an extensive competitive evaluation, AGF purchased Appian to deliver process knowledge into its credit fulfillment and servicing applications, and into the overall business. Following the initial implementation, AGF plans to leverage Appian through the organization to address a wide range of product line applications, including mortgages, deposit products and day-to-day banking.

Appian Enterprise provides organizations with the industry's most sophisticated platform for rapidly developing and deploying next-generation composite process applications. Appian's award-winning Business Process Management Suite (BPMS), Appian Enterprise, is the industry's only enterprise-class BPM solution to combine best-of-breed process management with broad collaboration and strong analytics functionality.

"Appian Enterprise has been architected to provide customers with the greatest control along with the greatest flexibility to change processes to address new business requirements or opportunities, and this provides AGF with the ability to increase the efficiency of its credit applications without worrying about future issues," said Matt Calkins, CEO of Appian. "Because we take a user focused approach to BPM, our customers can easily change their processes to address new employee, customer or regulatory needs without needing to re-engineer their applications. This will prove to be a key advantage for AGF."

Appian Appoints Samir Gulati as New Vice President of Marketing

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:00:00 EST

Appian, the leading provider of Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), today announced that it has appointed Samir Gulati, a respected BPM industry veteran, as Vice President of Marketing. In this role, Gulati will oversee Appian's global market branding, positioning and awareness strategies. Gulati joins Appian with over 19 years of marketing and product management experience and has managed market leadership initiatives at companies, including Pegasystems, GE, SAGA Software and Apptix

"Samir Gulati is extremely well respected in the BPM and SaaS arenas, having previously created market categories and leadership for pioneers in these markets. We are excited to tap into his expertise as we see increased market demand for Appian's next generation of innovative BPM solutions and services," said Matt Calkins, CEO, Appian. "The top analyst firms, significant customers and industry experts are recognizing Appian and our award-winning technology and visionary leadership. I look forward to Samir leveraging Appian's current success to create even greater market visibility and validation as we deliver our latest innovations, including Appian Anywhere, to the market."

Gulati previously served as Vice President of Global Marketing for Pegasystems, a publicly-traded BPM vendor, where he successfully re-positioned the company as the leader in the rules-driven Business Process Management market by executing an aggressive Brand Leadership program. These activities resulted in the positioning of Pegasystems as a visionary leader in BPM with many leading Industry and Financial Analysts. Most recently, Gulati was Vice President of Marketing at Apptix, where he was responsible for positioning the company as a premiere provider of on-demand messaging and collaboration solutions for small and medium-sized businesses.

Previously, as Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at SAGA Software, a spin-off from Software AG, Gulati was responsible for setting the strategic direction for SAGA -- including entry into new Markets, Technology Investments and Business Partner strategy and selection. He also led the successful global launch of SAGA's new Enterprise Application Integration product suite -- a key infrastructure technology for enabling integrated eBusiness.

"The executives at Appian have created a technology and company that are redefining the way enterprises implement and manage their Business Process Management solutions, and I am excited about the prospect of building on the foundation that they have created," stated Samir Gulati, Vice President of Marketing at Appian. "As the only BPM solution to address both application-to-application and human-to-human interactions, Appian is delivering an unparalleled solution to the marketplace, and with the addition of the company's on-demand solution, Appian Anywhere, the company is continuing to lead the industry in addressing customer needs. These unique value propositions and innovations provide the ideal platform for the strategic thought and market leadership campaigns, which I look forward to creating."

Appian Delivers Advanced Technology Platform to Support Army Defense Knowledge Online Initiative

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:00:00 EST

Appian, the leading provider of Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), today announced that it has been selected by Northrop Grumman to provide the enterprise portal technology and underlying process-based services to support the U.S. Army's task order to develop Defense Knowledge Online (DKO). The task order with a $267 million ceiling was awarded under the U.S. Air Force Network-Centric Solutions contract vehicle and is the largest portal task order ever awarded in the federal government.

"As the key technology provider for the initial Army Knowledge Online (AKO) initiative, Appian is excited by this next stage of implementation as it evolves into DKO to serve the entire Department of Defense," said Matt Calkins, CEO of Appian. "DKO promises to provide all warfighters with access to the information they need to better do their jobs and complete their missions, and we are actively working to deliver the best possible solution to attain this goal."

Leveraging Appian's robust platform, DKO will be the single enterprise service portal, serving as the entry point for all U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and authorized users to access DoD and government intranets supporting operations, missions and critical support processes for forces worldwide. DKO will provide relevant information and applications to the warfighter and other government users through a secure service-oriented framework to help them perform their missions more effectively. As the industry's best-of-breed large-scale knowledge-based portal, Appian's technology will help enable the DKO enterprise solution to grow from 1.8 million users to possibly eight million users or more, potentially across all federal government agencies.

Using Appian Enterprise, DKO delivers advanced personalization capabilities for deploying content to an unlimited number of targeted communities based on the profiles and preferences of groups of users. DKO users can collaborate as individuals or groups in private and secure virtual communities that they create themselves, on demand. DKO can thus establish a nested network of structured communities of practice (CoPs) that can span all operations, training, leader and doctrine domains within the DoD. As the key enabling technology that connects these domains, DKO enables the DoD to develop, institutionalize and apply best practices in real-time; improving decision-making and performance across the spectrum of Army operations.

The length of the DKO task order is one year with four six-month options. Initial work will be performed at Fort Belvoir, Va., an undisclosed site in Maryland, and in southwest Asia.

World Bank Deploys Appian Enterprise to Enhance Effectiveness and Efficiency in the Collaboration with its Partners on Virtual Learning and Dialogue Events

Tue, 3 Apr 2007 10:00:00 EST

Appian, the leading provider of Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), today announced that the World Bank has deployed Appian Enterprise to support event management for the Global Development Learning Network (GDLN), a partnership of learning centers facilitated by the Bank. The new GDLN Event Management System (GEM) enables GDLN Affiliates and clients worldwide to more effectively manage the planning and delivery of joint virtual learning and communication events. GDLN events are delivered using distance learning techniques and technologies and typically involve, simultaneously, multiple parties in different countries and regions. By providing a collaborative, process-based workspace for coordinating all logistics, Appian's BPMS delivers the structure and flexibility required to support these events.

The World Bank's GDLN Secretariat chose Appian's BPMS to optimize the entire cycle of event planning and provide a foundation that allows GDLN Affiliates to receive proposals from their clients, work collaboratively in planning events and help manage negotiations between their clients and other Affiliates involved in the same event. The new event management system will also help GDLN Affiliates schedule their own facilities and services for events, manage invoices, collect participant contact information, and conduct surveys efficiently.

"We selected Appian Enterprise after a competitive bidding process because its Business Process Management Suite provides the structure, features and flexibility we needed to help support the requirements of Affiliates and clients worldwide," said Monika Weber-Fahr, Manager for the GDLN and Multimedia division in the World Bank Institute. "Once GEM is fully operational, it can provide our Affiliates and their clients with a comprehensive solution that responds to their unique needs."

Currently, there are over 100 GDLN Affiliates and clients in nearly 80 countries, most of them in the developing world. Appian Enterprise has the capabilities to fulfill the needs of GDLN Affiliates and clients by providing the BMPS in several languages, working in variable bandwidth environments, and by being equipped with global 24x7 support. The IT maintenance costs of GEM are also minimized since Appian Enterprise's BPMS uses the latest AJAX technologies to deliver a desktop application experience to its users without installing additional software.

"Appian Enterprise BPMS enables our customers to deploy the industry's strongest process capabilities while improving the efficiency of their existing solutions," asserted Matthew Calkins, CEO, Appian. "We are proud to provide a comprehensive solution that can meet the global needs of GDLN Affiliates and clients, allowing for a quick and reliable implementation. Our offering will add structure to the event management processes of the World Bank's GDLN partnership and improve the way its Affiliates and clients are supported."

Appian Enterprise 5 is a comprehensive suite that provides fully integrated process, knowledge and analytics capabilities to drive quantifiable ROI and expedite the delivery of next-generation, process-driven solutions. The leading BPMS enables customers to automate, execute and optimize cross-functional business processes from beginning to end.

Mercer HR Services Selects Appian Enterprise BPM Suite to Streamline Global Processes

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:00:00 EST

Vienna, VA., March 26, 2007 - Appian, the leading provider of Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), announced today that Mercer HR Services, the human resource outsourcing business of Mercer Human Resource Consulting, has selected the award-winning Appian Enterprise BPM Suite to manage and streamline system-to-system integration, backend workflow and its human-centric processes worldwide.

"We selected Appian Enterprise after a competitive evaluation of all leading BPM vendors, which was an exhaustive process that lasted several months," said David Colelli, CIO, Mercer HR Services. "Unlike other BPM offerings, Appian's comprehensive suite increases effective control of permissions at an unprecedented level for greater data protection and compliance. Its overall functionality, ease of use and best practices methodologies best suited our needs as we streamline our global business processes."

Mercer HR Services employs more than 4,000 professionals in major international service centers across the globe, providing client companies with one of the most flexible and comprehensive HR administration service platforms available. Initially, Mercer is deploying Appian's BPMS to structure and streamline all of its U.S. system integration and backend workflows.

Appian Enterprise provides organizations with the industry's most sophisticated platform for rapidly developing and deploying next-generation process applications. The latest evolution y developing and deploying next-generation process applications. The latest evolution of Appian's BPMS, Appian Enterprise 5, is the industry's only enterprise-class BPM solution to combine best-of-breed process management with broad collaboration and strong analytics functionality, effectively bringing process to people. Appian's BPMS also increases flexibility to apply precautions whenever desired for greater operational agility and decreases manual administration of permissions to reduce TCO.

"In today's global marketplace, businesses are looking for BPM solutions that can improve processes in order to gain competitive advantages," said Matt Calkins, CEO at Appian. "With Appian's BPMS, Mercer will see a vast improvement in productivity while the organization augments its overall business processes."

Appian's BPM offering provides both business and IT users the skills to effectively use, customize, and develop on Appian Enterprise, and to leverage the BPM suite for greater ROI. Over the year, Appian has developed dozens of horizontal and vertically-focused solutions in the areas of sourcing and procurement, compliance, government, finance and human resources.

Lemontree to Resell Industry Leading Appian BPM Solution

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:00:00 EST

Vienna, VA., March 14, 2007 - Appian, the leading provider of Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), today announced that it has signed a partnership with Lemontree to resell Appian Enterprise. Lemontree will leverage its experience helping organizations align systems and processes to extend the value of Appian's leading BPMS and maximize customers' return on their IT investments. Lemontree's presence in the Nordic market provides a thorough understanding of the local conditions and requirements that are a vital prerequisite for a successful BPM implementation.

Appian delivers a powerful and efficient development environment, enabling Value Added Resellers (VARs) to extend the benefits and ROI of their complementary offerings. As organizations look to leverage BPM and human workflow tools as a platform to decrease the time to market for their process-based solutions, Appian Enterprise delivers the broadest set of BPM capabilities on the market as well as new tools that enable software vendors to easily integrate it within their existing solutions.

"As the leading BPM Suite on the market, Appian Enterprise provides us with the ability to not only increase the effectiveness of our customers existing investments, but to also offer optimized application packages that increase ROI and value from the beginning," said Thomas Martinsson, CEO at Lemontree. "Our customers trust Lemontree to deliver solutions that address existing issues and future needs. Appian Enterprise fits perfectly with our mission and we are certain that our customers will immediately recognize its power."

Appian Enterprise provides organizations with the industry's most sophisticated platform for rapidly developing and deploying next-generation composite process applications. The latest evolution of Appian's award-winning Business Process Management Suite (BPMS), Appian Enterprise 5.5, is the industry's only enterprise-class BPM solution to combine best-of-breed process management with broad collaboration and strong analytics functionality, effectively bringing process to people.

"As VARs look for solutions that can help extend the value that they deliver to customers, Appian Enterprise provides them with a proven platform for managing strategic business processes and increasing the benefits of their existing, pre-packaged offerings," said Phil Larson, Director of Product Management at Appian. "Recognized as one of the most functional and easy to implement BPM suites on the market, Appian Enterprise enables our partners to integrate the industry's strongest process capabilities, while increasing the efficiency and adaptability of their existing solutions."

Appian Presents Webinar Featuring Independent Research Analyst on Leveraging Recent BPM Innovations to Increase Productivity

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:00:00 EST

Vienna, VA., March 12, 2007 - Appian Corporation, the leading supplier of Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), will present a live one-hour webinar entitled "BPM: From Management to Improvement and Innovation" on March 15, at 2:00 p.m. ET. This webinar will feature a BPM expert from Forrester Research, a leading analyst firm.

As adoption accelerates and standards mature, BPM is no longer just about automating and managing business processes; it is about the continuous improvement and innovation of these processes. The process-managed organization isn't just better positioned to address current business challenges; it is better prepared to take advantage of future business opportunities.

During this webinar, Forrester Research's Colin Teubner, a leading authority on business process management suites and human-centric processes and tools, will provide attendees with insight on how to increase productivity through process improvement and innovation. Appian's Director of Product Management, Phil Larson, will then discuss how these BPM suites empower end users to collaborate, share process knowledge and ensure that corporate strategy is connected to the work people do every day.

What: Webinar - BPM: From Management to Improvement and Innovation

When: Thursday, March 15, 2007, 2:00-3:00 p.m. EST

Where: Please register by visiting http://www.appian.com/promo/campaigns/31507pr.jsp

Who: Colin Teubner, Analyst, Forrester and Phil Larson, Director of Product Management, Appian

Appian Named One of KMWorld's "100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management" For Third Consecutive Year

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:00:00 EST

Vienna, VA., March 6, 2007 - Appian, the leading provider of Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), today announced that it has been selected as one of KMWorld Magazine's "100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management" for the third consecutive year.

Now in its sixth year, KMWorld's "100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management" list is compiled by the publication's editors, colleagues, KM practitioners, theorists, analysts, vendors and their customers.

"The list is conceived as a way to recognize some of the organizations leading the way in the knowledge economy. It's designed to encourage a broader discussion of KM," said Hugh McKellar, Editor In Chief of KMWorld. "Criteria for inclusion differ, of course, as do the technologies recognized, but all companies share the following: Each has helped to create a market, redefine one or enhance one, and all of them demonstrate the capacity for customer-driven agile innovation. Compilation of the list is a year-long, collaborative but informal process with vendors, analysts and colleagues."

Last year, Appian released the latest version of Appian Enterprise, the award-winning BPM Suite widely recognized as one of the industry's most sophisticated platforms for process improvement and process innovation. Last month, the company also announced Appian Anywhere, the first full-featured BPM Suite available via an on-demand, software as a service (SaaS) model. This subscription service provides all the functionality of the Appian BPM Suite plus additional features to provide organizations and departments with effortless site branding, administration and application deployment.

"We are proud to be highlighted by KMWorld for the third year in a row," said Philip Larson, Director of Product Management for Appian. "Being named to the '100 Companies That Matter' list validates our success in Business Process Management and affirms our belief that content and knowledge add value to business processes. The heart of Appian's success in BPM continues to be finding innovative ways for organizations to connect corporate strategy to the work people do everyday."

Appian Invited to Participate in "BPM & Enterprise 2.0" Panel at ebizQ's BPM in Action Online Conference

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:00:00 EST

Vienna, VA., March 6, 2007 - Appian Corporation, the leading provider of Business Process Management Suites (BPMSment Suites (BPMSment Suites (BPMS), today announced that Philip Larson, Director of Product Management, will participate in a BPM In Action online panel entitled: "How Web 2.0 is becoming Enterprise 2.0" on March 6 at 1:00 p.m. EST. Taking place during the first-ever BPM In Action Virtual Conference (http://www.bpminaction.com), the panel will be moderated by BPM Architect and Blogger, Sandy Kemsley, and will provide attendees with insights into the opportunities and changes that BPM users can expect as a result of Web 2.0 technologies being adopted within the enterprise.

"At Appian, we believe Web 2.0 technologies are positively affecting the enterprise by helping deliver increased business value, enabling companies to address new markets, and optimizing business processes," said Philip Larson, Director of Product Management for Appian. "This is why Appian continues to out innovate and out invest our competitors in Web 2.0 technologies such as AJAX and RSS. We believe competitive advantage can be gained by cultivating process ecosystems and communities that have the right tools and the right authority to improve and innovate how work gets done. I am proud and humbled to be a part of such a distinguished panel discussing such a timely and important topic."

The panel is comprised of top BPM executives that will focus on the evolution from the consumer-focused Web 2.0 to the business-focused Enterprise 2.0. Panelists will discuss several key topics including BPM platform changes, the impact of browser-based tools and software as a service, new tools and techniques for improving user participation in process design and execution, and new ways of "mashing up" BPM data with internal and external data.

The BPM in Action Virtual Conference was developed to provide organizations with real world actionable advice and best practices for planning, building and managing BPM solutions. It is a two day conference sponsored by ebizQ, a venue for business and IT professionals with the need to exchange information on business integration technologies, problems and solutions.

Talisen Partners with Appian to Integrate and Resell the Company's Industry Leading Business Process Management Solution

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:00:00 EST

Vienna, VA., February 28, 2007 - Appian, the leading provider of Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), today announced that it has signed a partnership with Talisen Technologies to integrate and resell the company's leading BPM technology. Talisen will be extending the value of its wide breadth of security and infrastructure solutions by incorporating Appian's leading BPM technology for automating key processes within customer environments.

Already at work at AmerenUE, Talisen Technologies and Appian have successfully collaborated to provide AmerenUE with an automated solution for managing its design change notification system, ensuring complete control over and visibility into the entire process. Talisen Technologies served as the prime contractor, providing solutions and services to achieve AmerenUE's desired business outcomes, with Appian delivering the underlying technology required to achieve these objectives. For future customers, Talisen will leverage both Appian's enterprise solution as well as its breakthrough Web-based, on-demand solution, depending on customer requirements.

"Talisen is a strong believer in the value that BPM technology can deliver to just about every aspect of a company's business from SOX to IT to Marketing,business from SOX to IT to Marketing, and Appian Enterprise is one of the most robust solutions available," said George Van Antwerp, Vice President of Talisen's BPM Practice. "Appian's legacy in the business intelligence space, proven customer base, and willingness to work with partners makes this an attractive relationship for Talisen."

Talisen distinguishes itself from many other IT consulting and systems integrators because of its focus on IT and business alignment. Talisen recognizes that organizations that achieve supernormal results are those whose IT organizations are devoted to the pursuit of business goals and focus on continuous process improvement. Talisen's clients include The Boeing Company, Emerson and the British Ministry of Defence.

Appian delivers a powerful and efficient development environment, enabling Value Added Resellers to extend the benefits and ROI of their complementary offerings. As organizations look to leverage BPM and human workflow tools as a platform for speeding time to market for their process-based solutions, Appian Enterprise delivers the broadest set of BPM capabilities on the market as well as new tools that enable software vendors to easily embed it within their existing solutions.

Appian Enterprise provides organizations with the industry's most sophisticated platform for rapidly developing and deploying next-generation composite process applications. The latest evolution of Appian's award-winning Business Process Management Suite (BPMS), Appian Enterprise 5.5, is the industry's only enterprise-class BPM solution to combine best-of-breed process management with broad collaboration and strong analytics functionality, effectively bringing process to people.

"As one of the leading companies in its space, Talisen Technologies is an ideal Appian partner, providing solutions and services specially designed to improve the way customers manage their businesses," said Jim R. Hilbert, Vice President, Central Region at Appian. "Recognized as one of the most functional and easy to implement BPM suites on the market, Appian Enterprise enables our partners to integrate the industry's strongest process capabilities, while increasing the efficiency and adaptability of their existing solutions."

Concur Technologies Selects Appian Enterprise BPM Suite to Automate Processes

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:00:00 EST

Vienna, VA., February 27, 2007 - Appian, the leading provider of Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), announced today that Concur Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: CNQR), the world's leading provider of on-demand Corporate Expense Management services, has selected the award-winning Appian Enterprise BPM Suite to increase the efficiency of its processes in support of implementation and service delivery for its clients.

"As a leader in Corporate Travel and Expense Management, Concur Technologies is constantly searching for innovations to help us increase the quality and efficiency of our services," said Cristen Rankin, Business Process Analyst at Concur Technologies. "Appian Enterprise enables us to easily increase the efficiency of our processes in response to the demands of our clients. Moving forward, we plan on automating other processes on Appian Enterprise."

Appian Enterprise provides organizations with the industry's most sophisticated platform for rapidly developing and deploying next-generation composite process applications. Appian's award-winning Business Process Management Suite (BPMS), Appian Enterprise, is the industry's only enterprise-class BPM solution to combine best-of-breed process management with broad collaboration and strong analytics functionality.

"Companies of all sizes rely on Concur Technologies to deliver the most efficient travel and expense management solution available, so Concur understands the importance of efficient business processes," said Matt Calkins, CEO at Appian. "Appian Enterprise delivers the structure and control required to support Concur's needs, enabling them to be flexible in managing their business processes while increasing their productivity."

Appian has developed dozens of horizontal and vertically focused solutions in the areas of sourcing and procurement, compliance, government, finance and human resources.