Appian Rocks!

The Appian product we received at the beginning was a much more simplified tool. In the span of using it, it has grown new features that we have come to rely on. Each new feature introduced has been a positive inclusion, and has only progressed the platform forward. Eight years later, the platform we have is vastly different than what we received, but most of the code we originally wrote would still work.

With a short class for experienced developers, it's easy to get up to speed using Appian to design workflows. End-users have a much shorter training requirement, usually with no instruction required. This allows developers to produce more code, and solve more business issues, while end-users get the benefits of quick releases and faster, iterative development for their everyday tools.

Appian is fantastic as a business process management tool. If you have a business process where things have to get done in a specific order by a specific group of users, these are the things that Appian shines at.

Where Appian falls short is in data crunching or vast data visualizations, as it was not designed for that. While it can do those things, there are better tools for them.