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What is Appian?

Appian is a software company that automates business processes. The Appian Platform includes everything you need to design, automate, and optimize even the most complex processes, from start to finish. The world's most innovative organizations trust Appian to improve their workflows, unify data, and optimize operations—resulting in better growth and superior customer experiences. For more information, visit www.appian.com. [Nasdaq: APPN] ANALYST REPORTS Appian is proud to once again be named a Leader by Gartner for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms. Access report via: https://ap.pn/3d8RYQJ Appian, A Clear Leader in Nucleus Research’s 2020 Value Matrix for Low-Code Application Platforms. View report via: https://ap.pn/3jH7OmY

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Appian provides a leading low-code software development platform that enables organizations to rapidly develop powerful and unique applications. The applications created on Appian’s platform help companies drive digital transformation and competitive differentiation. For more information, visit www.appian.com.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Appian delivers complete automation, orchestrating people, existing systems, data, bots, and AI in a single workflow. Complete automation fuels enterprise-wide workflows to unlock material business results. Only Appian takes customers from discovery to development to automation in a single unified platform.

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Year Founded
1999
HQ Location
McLean, Virginia
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16,550 Twitter followers
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2,274 employees on LinkedIn®
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NASDAQ:APPN
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$304
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Appian is a software company that orchestrates business processes. The Appian Platform empowers leaders to design, automate, and optimize important processes from start to finish. With our industry-leading platform and commitment to customer success, Appian is trusted by top organizations to drive transformational process change.

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Nasser A.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"A fascinating journey"
The way Appian adapts to new trends e.g. The new wave of AI and how quickly Appian is able to adapt but also lead the way rather than changing for ...
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Manuel G.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Fast development and great outcomes"
Working with Appian and creating process is really simple and easy. The product offers a lot of plugins to connect with your systems and we have in...
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Appian & OpenText Cordys BPM Designer/Developer
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What do you like best about Appian?

Smoothness of developer experience.

Built-in tips, context sensitive help and

Ecosystem support are great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

- 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Appian:

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Appian solving and how is that benefiting you?

Standard biz apps that don’t require fancy UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Appian?

Appian have a great team of people who are able to visual a product and support the sprints to deliver a real functioning product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

I do not have anything to dislike about Appain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Appian solving and how is that benefiting you?

Building a product that has the potential to collect Aged Debt over millions of pounds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Appian?

The development speed and incremental improvements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

Business thinks we can do magic - expecting very speedy results while we depend on other systems as wel Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Appian solving and how is that benefiting you?

We built a global lifecycle management system to replace many local systems and create better data hygiene Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Appian?

I like that it's feature rich and easy to use. The UI is self explanatory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

I feel that the documentation sometimes lacks detail in what needs to be found, such as technical terms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Appian solving and how is that benefiting you?

Allowing us to easily manage cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Appian?

The capability to spin off a Ui screen At best. Formulas, workflows, Database Readiness, worked on Prem hosting and great software patching. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

Software patching on Prem takes a lot if time , Minimum 20 minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Appian solving and how is that benefiting you?

Business orchestration and reverse engineering existing applications to low code Solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Appian?

Flexibility, versatility, ease of use, AI skills Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

In practice it still takes a long time to build an app from scratch when we have to spell out every small detail. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Appian solving and how is that benefiting you?

Optimizing the E2E order booking process for medical supplies orders received via e-mail.

Appian helps to automate validation steps (e.g. validating material, partner information, check if price difference is within the tolerance limits) as well automate interactions between several teams involved in the process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Appian?

Appian has variety of features like automation, AI, process model, data fabrication, etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

We can't front end design of appian it's pretty much same design and menus Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Appian solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using appian functions and features development is made simple and efficient Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Appian?

It allows you to build very customizable, secure, polished apps with very few developers incredibly quickly. Easy integrations, many out of the box features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

Sometimes the components are a bit limiting -- so you have to get creative if there is something appian doesn't offer out of the box Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Appian solving and how is that benefiting you?

Appian is able to quickly setup web apps and offers a large base of support for developers to deliver great products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Appian?

The fact that it's a powerful tool which allows to build several kinds of applications and workflows in short period of time. It's very user friendly and provides many features business needs. I like that it is low-code platform development and easy to learn as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

Not much but if document storage and management are improved it will be a great addition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Appian solving and how is that benefiting you?

Appian has been solving many problems in my organization. We were able to transform from multiple legacy systems to Appian and the users experience using Appian have been great and very positive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Appian?

The technology it has got to change the world's perspective of digital data security Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

The monitoring tool and the advanced automation system development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Appian solving and how is that benefiting you?

Definitely Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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