Item: Appian
Rating: 7
Author: Greeshma Mayreddy, PMP, CTFL

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Appian is used by one the business units in our organization to manage specific business flows.
It addresses our business needs to track our record lifecycle.
It is used for reporting purposes.

Pros and Cons

Maintains good history of processeses within BPM suite for traceability purposes
Good Adaptability to connect to other plugins
Scalable.

Appian uses KDB to store data. Sometimes memory could be an issue.

Likelihood to Renew

The current product is really working out for us. And has a huge potential for future investments within the organization.

Appian is a great Business Process Modeling tool which can be utilized by any organization which has a business processes. The key factor to understand is to how to leverage the enormous capabilities that exist within appian into your business.