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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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Appian
Company Website
Year Founded
1999
HQ Location
McLean, Virginia
Twitter
@Appian
16,546 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
2,274 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
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...
Damir S.
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Damir S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"I love working with Appian"
As a developer, there is no build, compile or merge up of application. The framework is similar to plug and play. You just login and you are ready ...
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Appian Media

Appian Demo - The Power of BPM
Business Process Management and the automation it delivers are key to operational efficiency. But, BPM also drives more growth, manages governance, risk, and compliance, and improves customer and employee engagement.
Appian Demo - Mobile App Development
For a mobile app development platform, mobile first means fast. And it can also mean powerful. But, without top-rated security and certifications? Mobile first means risk. Appian’s mobile app development is fast. Your apps? They’re powerful. And best of all, you have the confidence it’s safe wit...
Appian Demo - Appian RPA
Appian RPA delivers: Full-Stack Automation – Business automation value comes from the effective workflow orchestration of today’s modern workforce, including people, software robots (bots), and AI. Appian RPA completes Appian’s automation stack, uniting people, bots, and AI across business pro...
Appian Demo - Data Fabric
Appian’s data fabric unifies data from multiple systems to enable secure and easy access to enterprise data while delivering a 360° view of your organization.
Appian Demo - Process Mining
Process mining is a technique for discovering, monitoring, and improving processes. It’s an objective way to visualize how business processes work that enables end-to-end process optimization, uncovers automation potential, and delivers continuous process improvement.
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Appian?

Appian's low-code platform is popular for its ease of use, integration capabilities, rapid development, process automation, and scalability, making it ideal for quickly creating and deploying business applications and improving operational efficiency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

Nothing in particular and hope they can continue to enhance their solution to support all our future needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It help us improve our cost savings on IT automation, increased efficiency, and better utilization of IT resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AS
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Appian?

Great UI

Refined data fabric layer

Addition of process mining and RPA

Evolving platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

The need to make adjustments to your code to be able to make it mobile reactive. Also the issue of not being able to inject custom code using java script Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are a fund management service and Appian is used for onboarding different customers and funds into our system using Appian's Connected Onboarding Solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Appian?

Appian makes it incredibly easy for a small amount of developers to create a large application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

Although low code is something that Appian touts and pushes for, almost every developer uses solely the expression editor which means there is a great need for writing code but Appian doesn't support that as much when it comes to things like ui for the expression editor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Appian is helping us solve how we have any clients with many different needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PZ
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Appian?

Great collaboration with the team and agility to deliver fast, always with proactive approach. Also the Appian team has become a true extension of our team which has been amazing for the collaboration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

Would appreciate even more proactive news when solutioning a problem Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Serves as a system of engagement for processing complex projects requiring a workflow - reducing many tools to one or few and ability for users to see all they need on one screen instead of many Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Roy Ramon M.
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Application Developer, Backend Development
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Appian?

All in one platform, provides the ability to develop applications quicker, and integrate with external systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

Errors are not straightforward, that leads to contacting Appian Suport for further analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Moving away from emails, and letting users send requests through Appian applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mauro B.
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Appian?

Appian's low-code approach simplifies the application development process, allowing users to create robust and functional applications with minimal coding. In my opinion ,this not only accelerates the development cycle but also makes it accessible to individuals with varying levels of technical expertise. With that in mind Appian allows rapid application development is commendable. Appian enables users to swiftly bring their ideas to fruition, resulting in a faster time-to-market for software solutions. This agility is crucial in today's dynamic business environment.

Appian also excels process automation, streamlining complex business workflows. Im my opinion, this capability enhances operational efficiency by automating repetitive tasks and ensuring a smoother flow of processes. This not only saves time but also reduces the likelihood of errors in critical business operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

Cost: Some of my clients have expressed concerns about the cost of Appian, stating that it might be on the higher side compared to other low-code platforms.

Limited Customization in UI: Although Appian offers tools for designing user interfaces, some of my clientes have mentioned limitations in terms of highly customized and intricate UI designs. Depending on specific design requirements, users may find the options somewhat restrictive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

In my oppion appian helps my clients streamline and automate complex business processes. By offering solutions that address process inefficiencies, I can demonstrate how your Appian services improve operational efficiency, reduce manual errors, and enhance overall productivity for your clients.By aligning my Appian services with this problem-solving aspect, I position myself as a partner who understands the unique challenges that my clients face and offers tailored solutions using the capabilities of the Appian platform. This can enhance the value proposition of my services and benefit your consulting business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Appian?

With the appian low code platform, I am able to quickly and effectively build apps for my clients that address their specific use case and business needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

Sometimes the Appian platform has unhelpful ways of alerting users to errors. A bit of a learning curve on how to figure things out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Appian is solving Uber specific client needs that aren't available on many out of the box platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

EP
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Appian?

I like how Appian releases new features every quarter and keeping up-to-date with latest technical features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

One of the things Appian can improve on is increasing the limit of records that can be synched from 4 million to at least 20 million. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use Appian as the BPM platform tool across the enterprise to complete client requests. It has helped the business drastically make their processes more efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MC
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Appian?

Approachable, easy to developdapt and promote Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

Scalability , still exploring autoscling and records sync slowness Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Held with records management, Documentum administration and converting paper processes to digital pdfs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JK
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Appian?

The ability to develop and deploy a simple workflow application with minimal turnaround time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Appian?

Lack of customiazation for front end and user experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Managing and documenting business processes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.