synopsis

Appian is a BPM specialist vendor, founded in 1999. Appian's BPM technology offering comprises two core products - Appian Enterprise (now on version 5.7) and Appian Anywhere (which is a hosted, but feature-equivalent, version of Appian Enterprise, launched in 2007). The technology products are unusual in the broad range of capabilities that they pull together and integrate strongly. Appian Enterprise and Appian Anywhere combine process management, portal, real-time analytics, content management, document management, and collaboration facilities - and deliver all these capabilities on one common platform, with a consistent set of completely web-based design, development and administration tools. Appian has also done something that no other BPM technology vendor has yet pulled off: it has found a way to expose a great many of the technical capabilities implemented in the platform (including in its content management, document management, collaboration tools and so on) directly to process designers - making it possible for non-specialists to quickly define processes that exhibit very sophisticated and dynamic behaviour. The result of all this innovation is an offering that provides strong or very strong support across all of our six process scenarios, as well as enabling Appian to deliver its core technology in either on-premise or fully hosted flavours.