Appian Announces Major Enhancements to the Appian BPM Suite
08/24/2010
Advances the State-of-the-Art for Integrating BPM with Data Management, Increases Application Performance and Eases Management and Migration
Appian, the global innovator in enterprise and on-demand business process management (BPM)
technology, today announced immediate availability of the latest release of the Appian BPM Suite.
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This architectural milestone extends Appian's position as the leader in BPM technology innovation. The release significantly advances Appian customers' ability to create process applications that seamlessly integrate their enterprise data and scale to handle extremely large process volumes and load.
Data Management and Integration
Industry analysts are urging enterprises to consider the inter-dependency of BPM and Master Data Management (MDM) initiatives. According to independent research firm Forrester Research, Inc.:
"Savvy process leaders and process analysts understand the critical role that data plays in process execution - driving automated decisions, routing rules, and placing process in the proper context for end users." (Forrester Research, Inc., "Warning: Don't Assume Your Business Processes Use Master Data", September, 2009).
In this latest release, Appian breaks new ground in the seamless integration of enterprise data into process applications. By supporting industry standards and best practices, Appian empowers business analysts and end-users to easilyaccess and work with enterprise data sources without requiring SQL or complex coding. Specifically, feature benefits include:
Data Store Integration
Data Administrators can now register their enterprise Data Stores with Appian and create simple object-oriented views for users to query and update data from their process application. Appian also adds an additional security layer to ensure tight controls over querying enterprise data.
Business Designer Empowerment
Without knowledge of SQL or other complex coding languages, non-technical process designers and end-users can now create process applications that query and update enterprise data sources from the simple drag-and-drop Appian Process Modeler and Forms Designer.
Master Data Management
Appian now makes it simple for designers to create processes that merge and consolidate multiple enterprise data sources to ensure data governance and quality or create process applications with expansive views of data across the enterprise.
Data Definition Portability
Appian now makes enterprise data definitions a re-usable SOA component and part of the Appian Application Package profile, easing re-use and portability of process applications between disparate RDBMS platforms, on-premise and in cloud environments, or in the Appian Forum community.