Appian Announces Availability of the Industry's Most Advanced Business Process Management Suite.VIENNA, Va. -- Appian Enterprise 5 Delivers the Only Comprehensive Business Process Management Suite, Bringing Process to People and Enabling Development of Next-Generation Composite Process Applications Appian, the leading provider of human-centric business process management suites (BPMS (Business Process Management Suite or System) See BPM. ), today unveiled Appian Enterprise 5, providing organizations with the industry's most sophisticated platform for rapidly developing and deploying next-generation composite process applications. The latest evolution of Appian's award-winning BPM suite See BPM. , Appian Enterprise 5 is the industry's only enterprise-class BPM (Business Process Management) A structured approach that models an enterprise's human and machine tasks and the interactions between them as processes. BPM software provides users with a dashboard interface that offers a high-level view of the operation that typically solution to combine best-of-breed process management with broad collaboration and strong analytics functionality, effectively bringing process to people. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Gartner's Position on Business Process Management 2006 report, "By 2009, 20 percent of business processes of Global 2000 companies will be supported on BPMSs (0.7 probability). These processes will predominately involve a considerable amount of human work that differentiates the company from its competitors and that is poorly supported by established IT systems." Appian Enterprise 5 is the industry's the most advanced people-centric BPM suite featuring technology enhancements that bring process to people, including unique integration to Microsoft Outlook For the e-mail and news client bundled with certain versions of Microsoft Windows, see . Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook , an enhanced, third-generation AJAX-based user interface, fully integrated document management and collaboration capabilities, powerful Analytics Everywhere(TM) functionality, and full internationalization The support for monetary values, time and date for countries around the world. It also embraces the use of native characters and symbols in the different alphabets. See localization, i18n, Unicode and IDN. internationalization - internationalisation . "This innovative product has the widest breadth of functionality among the suites we evaluated, by design," said Connie Moore, author of The Forrester Wave(TM): Human-Centric Business Process Management Suites, Q1 2006, Forrester Research Forrester Research is an independent technology and market research company that provides its clients with advice about technology's impact on business and consumers. Corporate facts
"Appian pioneered the BPM suite market with the launch of Appian Enterprise 4 and we have experienced significant growth and industry recognition based on this solid platform," said Matthew Calkins, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Appian Corporation. "Appian Enterprise 5 delivers the same core process, knowledge, and analytics capabilities while delivering innovative new features that empower empower verb To encourage or provide a person with the means or information to become involved in solving his/her own problems users to engage in collaborative, process-driven work and facilitates integration and interaction with third-party systems." Appian Enterprise 5 introduces radically enhanced process modeling capabilities with the industry's first completely BPMN-compliant, third-generation AJAX process modeler, fully supporting the industry's "common language" for process design. Featuring the most pervasive pervasive, adj indicates that a condition permeates the entire development of the individual. and advanced use of AJAX in any enterprise application to date, Appian delivers a dynamic, fully featured process design tool that enables users to work in a web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. with no Java plug-ins A browser plug-in that provides the link to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that is installed in the computer. The plug-in control panel lets the user select which JVM to use. See Java. or ActiveX controls A software module based on Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM) architecture. It enables a program to add functionality by calling ready-made components that blend in and appear as normal parts of the program. . Appian Enterprise 5 continues to deliver industry leading support for Service-Oriented Architecture See SOA. (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ) and Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. orchestration orchestration Art of choosing which instruments to use for a given piece of music. The sections of the orchestra historically were separate ensembles: the stringed instruments for indoors, the woodwind instruments for outdoors, the horns for hunting, and trumpets and drums . With an advanced events-driven architecture, Appian Enterprise 5 simplifies the modeling and execution of cross-functional processes and accelerates the development of process-centric business applications that can respond dynamically to external business events. Appian Enterprise 5 BPM suite features more than 1,500 functional enhancements, including:
-- Analytics Everywhere(TM)
Appian Enterprise 5 delivers new business activity monitoring
(BAM) capabilities that put the power of analytics into the
hands of process participants. Now, relevant analytical
information is provided directly to people as they work,
giving decision-makers the ability to make optimum in-process
decisions.
-- Best-in-Class Microsoft Outlook Integration
Appian Enterprise 5 is completely integrated with Microsoft
Outlook, supporting the common platform where business users
do their day-to-day work. In addition, the full capability of
Appian Enterprise's Analytics Everywhere functionality is
available through this Outlook interface.
-- Enhanced Support for BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation)
Appian Enterprise 5 execution engine provides the market's
most comprehensive support for the BPMN specification. The
BPMN specification provides organizations a common graphical
way of defining and understanding their internal and external
business procedures. This helps organizations communicate
these procedures in a standard manner as they move from mere
documentation to full-scale round-trip engineering and
continuous process improvement.
-- Events-Driven Architecture
Appian Enterprise 5 supports the orchestration of a
Service-Oriented Architecture with an advanced events
architecture, which enables, among other things, activity
handling and allows users to configure exception flows within
activities. This new architecture is also fully
BPMN-compliant.
-- Internationalization
Appian Enterprise 5 is fully Unicode compliant. Appian is the
first BPM vendor to provide full language and
internationalization capabilities through a web-based AJAX
interface. This is necessary in order to support complex
processes at the enterprise level that span geographical and
cultural boundaries.
-- Sophisticated AJAX-based process modeler
Appian Enterprise 5 is 100% web-based, featuring the
industry's only AJAX-based process modeler. Requiring no Java
applets or ActiveX, Appian Enterprise 5 offers the only truly
thin process modeling environment, significantly reducing the
cost of distributing process design, execution and
optimization capabilities throughout the extended enterprise.
-- Highest Performance BPMS
Appian Enterprise 5 fully supports load balancing and
fail-over while core enhancements to the process engine enable
it to beat previous industry-leading benchmarks for
performance and scalability set by Appian Enterprise 4.1.
-- New Integration Enhancements
Appian Enterprise 5 is now available with an integrated Java
Messaging System (JMS) middleware infrastructure. With
improved support for Web services, Appian Enterprise 5 enables
users to publish and consume processes as Web services and use
them with events to trigger new processes or change the flow
of running processes in response to external activities.
Appian Enterprise 5 is currently shipping and immediately available. For more information, please contact sales@appian.com. About Appian Appian is the first business process management (BPM) company to deliver advanced process, knowledge, and analytics functionality in a fully integrated suite. Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations “NGO” redirects here. For other uses, see NGO (disambiguation). A non-governmental organization (NGO) is a legally constituted organization created by private persons or organizations with no participation or representation of any government. are deploying Appian's award-winning software, Appian Enterprise, to drive continuous process improvements and build next-generation, composite process solutions. For more information, visit www.appian.com. |
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