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Overview

What is Appian?

Appian is a low-code development and business process management platform. It features drag-and-drop design for app building, automated work processes, unified data management, and cloud-based deployment.

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Automation Platform

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 19, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Appian is being used by a department in my company, it usually helps us solve business problems provided by various customers. And automating their daily processes with low-co...
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Consultant
Appian2 years of experience

Great Low code - no code Workflow tool in the market!!

Rating: 8 out of 10
October 3, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Appian is a digital transformation tool in which it streamlines and complement human operations in order to reduce highly manual intensive tasks. It is one of the best Low cod...
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Umesh Kataria
Employee - Information Technology
Senior Manager
Genpact
Appian2 years of experience

Best Low Code Software

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 16, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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Divya Sangtani
Engineer - Information Technology
Software Engineer
Aptclouds Software Solutions
Appian1 year of experience

Appian--reduce time and effort for employees

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 22, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
It is being used by departments with a variety of databases like Oracle, Microsoft SQL, MySQL, and IBM DB2. Operations of day-to-day tasks, from loan applications to processin...
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Sneha Gangan Manore
Engineer - Information Technology
Senior Analyst
Bank of America
Appian1 year of experience

Automate Workflow for Any Industries

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 5, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We are using Appian in the hospital to automate the workflow of patient registration, diagnosis, and treatment. It only took two weeks to implement it at the hospital. Appian ...
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Nabin Poudel
C-Level Executive - Information Technology
CEO
Curl Labs
Appian5 years of experience
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Pricing

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Appian Community Edition

$0

Cloud

Application - Input-Only

$2

On Premise
per month per user

Application - Infrequent

$9

On Premise
per month per user

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.appian.com/platform/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

APPIAN DEMO RECORDING SESSION # 91-9866955524

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Appian Developer Tutorial for Beginners | Appian Training

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APPIAN DEMO

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APPIAN DEMO | Harsha Trainings |

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Features

Low-Code Development

Low-code development tools allow non developers to build simple process applications with little oversight. These tools simplify the application building process, and are frequently used for simple process applications.

9.1
Avg 8.4
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Product Details

What is Appian?

Appian provides a software development platform that combines Full-Stack Automation and enterprise low-code to rapidly deliver business applications. Appian can be used to improve customer experience, achieve operational excellence, and simplify global risk and compliance.

Appian is a platform for building enterprise software applications. Appian boasts running some of the most important processes at companies like Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Aviva, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, and the US Department of the Treasury.

Some Appian use cases include - Intelligent Business Process Management Systems (iBPMS), Dynamic Case Management (DCM), Digital Process Automation (DPA), Robotics Process Automation (RPA), and Low-code Development.

Appian Features

Low-Code Development Features

  • Supported: Visual Modeling
  • Supported: Drag-and-drop Interfaces
  • Supported: Platform Security
  • Supported: Platform User Management
  • Supported: Reusability
  • Supported: Platform Scalability

Appian Screenshots

Screenshot of Low-Code DevelopmentScreenshot of Business Process Management SuiteScreenshot of Dynamic Case ManagementScreenshot of Mobile App DevelopmentScreenshot of Appian RPA with Blue Prism

Appian Videos

The world’s leading enterprises trust Appian to unify humans, bots, and AI across their organization with speed and simplicity.
Ryder is the leader in commercial truck rentals and leasing, dedicated to continuous process improvement to solve customer problems, increase cost effectiveness, and ensure driver safety. Appian supports Ryder with the technology they need to deliver. Beginning with solutions ...
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FirstBank deployed Appian for intelligent case management to rapidly identify and resolve potential money laundering schemes. FirstBank ensures safety, achieves 100% compliance, and saves more than 1,000 work hours each year with the AML solution.
Alabama Power wanted to modernize their in-house energy improvement financing program. With Appian, they created the Smart Financing application, which automates and streamlines the entire financing process. Alabama Power has increased ally financing in some cases by 1200%.
In this video, Target IT and business leaders talk about their remarkable achievement and how they worked with Appian to transform customer journeys, streamline operations, and galvanize Target’s efforts to overcome the disruption that is so pervasive in the financial services industry.
Chris Lee of Merck and Evjatar Cohen of Appian delve into Merck's digital transformation with Appian. They discuss Merck's journey from siloed data and disjointed systems, to Appian's end-to-end solution providing workers with a simplified interface, unified data, and the comp...
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At Appian, we believe companies need a simpler, faster way to create powerful software. That’s why we pioneered the low-code market. Learn more about low-code in Appian CEO Matt Calkins' own words.
Hear from some of the world’s leading enterprises trust Appian to unify humans, bots, and AI across their organization with speed and simplicity.

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Appian Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Mobile Web

Appian Downloadables

Frequently Asked Questions

Appian is a low-code development and business process management platform. It features drag-and-drop design for app building, automated work processes, unified data management, and cloud-based deployment.

OutSystems and Pega Platform are common alternatives for Appian.

Reviewers rate Reusability and Platform Scalability highest, with a score of 9.5.

The most common users of Appian are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Appian Business Process Management Platform Recommendation

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
September 05, 2017
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Telecommunications Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Appian
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Appian is used across the entire organization as a business service integration and workflow enabling toolset. It enables us to quickly develop new integration points where human-machine-human interactions need to occur and to dynamically change those when the business need changes. This platform is utilized for both small scale tool development and large scale multi-system integration development of systems.
Pros
  • The application builder tool enables you to quickly shell out a brand new application with well constructed components.
  • The process modeler tool is intuitive and includes debugging and monitoring capabilities.
  • Appian incorporates enhancement suggestions into their base platform on a regular basis. New versions are released a few times each year and patches are made available quickly when issues are reported.
Cons
  • Appian should embrace open source relational database technology. The platform appears to integrate well with PostGreSQL, but the vendor does not currently support this.
Likelihood to Recommend
Appian is an ideal business process management platform when multiple role-based actions are required to complete a business function, and especially where there are human decisions to be made in the routing of work required to complete a business process. The Appian platform works well for small point solutions as well as large scale integrations between several applications (either through data layer integration, web service or other standard API). Appian is not the best tool if the system being engineered does not have an end-user interaction.

Appian Business Process Management Application Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 10, 2018
MC
Michael Campbell, PMP,CSM
Director, Strategic Process Project Management
Scripps Networks (Broadcast Media, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Appian
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Appian was selected initially to solve a very specific business problem; how to integrate our work intake. Once we introduced Appian and its tools to the organization we have since discovered a myriad of other processes that should be enhanced by their movement onto the Appian platform.

Appian is currently being used across our Digital operations. There has been interest however from our Enterprise IT division to access Appian in how it may be able to resolve specific business issues on the Enterprise side.

Currently we are focusing the use of Appian in three primary areas: Work Intake, Time Tracking and Resource Management and Reporting. However, we have a broad strategic backlog of work that we have planned over the next 3 years. We look at Appian as being the backbone that connects disparate systems together to facilitate process improvement and overall visibility into the organization. Since this initial entry we have moved Appian to Enterprise and as such we have expanded our audience significantly.
Pros
  • Process Modeling - The Appian designer interface is extremely intuitive and easy to use. It allows a designer, once familiar with the basic setup to quickly create process models
  • Flexibility - We often tell our end users that Appian is a blank slate from which they can request and design practically whatever process and or business solution they can envision. Where as users are often relegated to and limited by what an off the shelf application provides Appian provides tremendous flexibility.
  • Mobile - Appian has successfully accomplished the build once deploy to all platforms for BPM. Their mobile versions of the application are excellent.
  • Cloud Services - Appian offers a cloud service that is simple to set up and insures that you are always up to date with the latest of versions.
  • Integration - Appian's API capabililties to push/pull data allows it to become what we call the "spine" of our organization. Connecting to and interacting with other enterprise platforms to provide its users with a one stop complete picture.
Cons
  • Process Modeling - Appian is currently moving away from their desktop portal model and into web-based access. This requires some significant reworking of their underlying structures. That being said, their new technology and modeling options are extremely exciting and should provide significant enhancements and flexibility over the plain portal environment option.
  • Form Design - I would like to see greater flexibility in form design and form preview.
  • Training - Appian offers a plethora of training but the ability to tailor training to meet specific needs of an audience would be a welcomed addition.
  • Reports - There needs to be greater flexibility in configuring and printing of reports.
Likelihood to Recommend
Appian is very well suited for workflow management. It truly is flexible enough to resolve just about any workflow and or process improvement project one might encounter. Their Solutions Delivery and Professional Services resources are excellent and are always willing to step in for assistance at a moments notice. Here we had Appian setup a test instance of their services and then created multiple proof of concept models that we used to socialize their capabilities. It is critical from a selection process to test the platform with a process that you are familiar with. Second, we would look to obtain hands-on experience with the tool before licensing. Several of our users here attended training prior to the POC work so we could actually get our hands into the application.

Appian at GRDF, searching for the best way to accelerate your business process

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
August 09, 2017
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Appian is used to automate business process around gas metering and connection to the gas network, when we have new customers who want gas and call GRDF. The whole organization is using Appian but only employees. We have no customers using Appian. Currently we don't use Appian for HR or purchasing process but we have some opportunity to work on purchasing process.
Pros
  • Using a basket of tasks for user. It's clear for work day to day, just choosing task to complete, one after one.
  • Follow-up on tasks. Every user says that it's a revolution to have detail about our tasks and they can know where there are tasks.
Cons
  • Appian is in the middle of our IT architecture. But Appian does not have enough capacity for connection and it's too hard to develop some web services.
  • Appian must be easier to use like an exchange bus.
  • The user experience is poor. Appian UI is not flexible enough. We can not customize the different screens correctly.
Likelihood to Recommend
The best use of Appian is with a small application, with tasks and no connection with the other IT applications. Appian is very good in a stand alone situation.

Appian for process transformation

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
September 15, 2017
Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Translation and Localization Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Appian
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Appian is being used to help transform our service delivery organsiation, standardising our fragmented global business process that is currently very reliant on spreadsheets. It will provide greater visibility to the organisation on how we work, and allow us to further improve our processes.
Pros
  • Modular, responsive, mobile ready, user interface.
  • Low code philosophy means solutions can be turned from idea to PoC and implemented process very quickly when compared to traditional application building.
  • Strong Professional Services team to help implement Appian solutions.
Cons
  • Deployment and application management between environments needs refinement.
  • The mobile UI, whilst good, is only available in the native Appian mobile app, which could be restritive for some.
  • The UI, whilst it has its strengths, because it is modular can struggle to meet some more advanced UX use cases.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited to a linear business process that is well understood, and is very task orientated, and can be carried out largely on a browser-based environment. It is less suited to business processes that are very fluid or involve stages within them that are different each time.

Appian is great for complex processes

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
August 14, 2017
BD
Bob De Man
Executive Director
Raiffeisen Leasing Romania IFN SA (Financial Services, 5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Appian
3 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Appian to manage complex business processes (lending is one of the examples). It is used end to end from customer enrollment to disbursement.
Pros
  • Transparency of the process for all users
  • Queue management
  • Times to yes amd time to cash improvement
Cons
  • Too much hard coding needed if small changes need to be made (input fields in a screen,...)
  • Difficult to upload multiple documents at once
Likelihood to Recommend
We love Appian as a process automation tool. It helped with reducing time to cash in one particular process to 1/3 of the initial baseline. It can also be used for very simple automatons and fast integrations.
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