Appian

Smoothness of developer experience.

Built-in tips, context sensitive help and

Ecosystem support are great.

- Proprietary, lack of migration tools to open source products and tools or other cots vendor tools.

- Serious coding skills unique to Appian are required to produce most real-world applications.

App Ian is great for business, time to produce working useful applications beats other tools, except perhaps Pega, but cost far less than Pega. Appian is committed to growth and encompassing DevOps and better UI tools, important fir protecting your investment.

Standard biz apps that don’t require fancy UI

low code programming and fast respond from the support

better RPA in the futur and more low code RPA

great tool for BPMS users

process workflow

The ease of designing the business processes and then simply configuring them to make it work is the best thing I can say. Community is very rich and helpful. There's everything documented properly and it's very easy to pick Appian as a new developer. I started with the development last year and now, I play a vital role in my team. All thanks to Appian!

I've got just one word for this: NOTHING!

JUST GO FOR IT!

As far as our project is concerned, we have automated the complete employee onboarding process (from filling forms to assigning project) by using Appian. Our client is so happy with the solution, they are extending the support to many services and recommending Appian to others too! I think, designing and programming ease is the few of many benefits that I can list out of Appian.

Development tools, Integrations and support forums

Limited Appain exposure for other systems to integrate

Case management mostly. Great audit benefits and secure access to information at your fingertips

The ease of use. The modelling flow chart to model process flow diagrammatically instead having to write line after line after line of code. I like how you can pretty much create any process type application for so many industries. I can see it being used in totally different industries from healthcare to education to inventory type systems.

The one downside is that I have to learn a little bit of coding. The SAIL language is not too bad to learn, but it's a little confusing for non programmers. I don't like some of the restrictions put on the software, like only being able to have 5 menus on a webpage. But with a little creativity, I'm sure people will find workarounds.

For non-coders, business people, they can help developers model the business processes in the same project or app. This does lift the burden a little bit off the developers. It is also suitable for performing the agile methodology with dev-ops, which seems to be the industry standard in rolling out software applications. It also has a robotics and automation component to it but we didn't demo it. Considering the competitors out there like pega, appian is very similar and the ease of use is quite good.

I wasn't solving a problem with Appian. I was sent to a week long developer fundamentals class taught by Gabriel Salas. In that class we solved a problem for a car rental system. this system included maintenance scheduling, email notification, task assignment, process flow modelling, decision tree making. There was also another app that we used as a demo for a class training resource site and a doctors office, that is populated with doctors, nurses, prescription medication and patients. Patients will get automated e-mail notifications for appointments and they have their own portal so that they can set up an appointment time, pick the doctor they want and fill in form for their own diagnosis.

The Appian suite allows for swift delivery in business value. What would take weeks or months to deliver in a legacy ERP system takes days in Appian.

Since Appian is a suite, it has many tools to solve your business process needs. That being said, if you consistently need features outside of Appian the platform and their marketplace does not have a Java plugin for you, you may want to consider going with a different suite or strategy for building business applications.

Use Appian if you want to standardize your business processes and gain insights into how your business performs in terms of cycle time, SLA fulfillment, and continuous improvement. Once you have standard processes, then you can use more advanced features such as RPA, IDP (Intelligent Document Processing) or even perform advanced analysis on your Appian data-points using some process mining. Appian is a great place to start your journey into optimizing your corporate business processes.

Appian has improved SLA's, increased interdepartmental collaboration, standardized processes, and decreased process waste. Appian is a powerful tool and will give you tremendous control over your business processes when used to its full strength.

Take time to assess the business's needs for reporting, workflows, approvals - a little extra time spent on this up front will save time later on.

Improved accountability of tasks with several workflows; migrated legacy data and older workflows easily.

We use Appian tool for project management and to track the progress of any projects and to get the productivity of each team member

Problems - Project Management, Reports

Benefits - Progress reports, Team managements

All the worklflow related problems and integration with the other systems are seamless with appian last but not lease automating the whole eco system with the RPA capability.

Low-code is the present and RPA is the future. Appian really follow this way improving the platform giving really useful solutions.

Automatize company business processes