Appian Announces On-Demand Subscription Service for its Award-Winning Business Process Management Suite.VIENNA, Va. -- Appian, the leading provider of Business Process Management (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 ) technology, today announced Appian Anywhere the first full-featured Business Process Management Suite available via an on-demand, software as a service (SaaS) model. The entire award-winning Appian BPM Suite See BPM. is now available through the Internet browser See Web browser. - there are no downloads required for modeling or running automated processes. This subscription service provides all the functionality of the Appian Enterprise BPM Suite plus additional features to provide organizations and departments with effortless ef·fort·less adj. Calling for, requiring, or showing little or no effort. See Synonyms at easy. ef  fort·less·ly adv. site branding, administration and application deployment. "Appian Anywhere provides entirely new, creative and cost-effective ways for organizations of any size to deploy leading-edge Business Process Management software," said George Barlow bar·low n. An inexpensive, one- or two-bladed pocketknife. [After Barlow, the family name of its makers, two brothers in Sheffield, England.] , VP and General Manager for the Appian Anywhere Business Unit of Appian. "There are many significant benefits immediately available to Appian Anywhere subscribers. The full Appian Enterprise product with all the power and flexibility of our leading software suite is instantly available through a low-cost subscription model. Business users can quickly and easily create many business applications themselves without the need to engage scarce, expensive programming or other IT resources. The Appian Anywhere service will also deliver a wide variety of partner developed enterprise applications that provide significant strategic advantages to our subscribers." Appian Anywhere sets the bar for on-demand BPM offerings by providing a comprehensive platform for the design, execution and optimization optimization Field of applied mathematics whose principles and methods are used to solve quantitative problems in disciplines including physics, biology, engineering, and economics. of business processes entirely over the web. Full portal, collaboration and content management capabilities augment process and rules capabilities to enable subscribers to build and run useful processes faster than ever before. Moreover, subscribers will have access to many free ready-to-run processes as soon as they sign up. Business users can easily change these processes to reflect the specific way their businesses are run. "The time for BPM software to be provided as a service has arrived. Combining many key web innovations with a standards-based infrastructure and mission-critical reliability and security, Appian Anywhere appeals to a number of different user communities," said Matt 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. at Appian. "Small and medium sized organizations that want to make use of the power of Business Process Management can begin realizing ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). immediately because there are no significant up-front investments and minimum startup costs." Appian partners and independent developers can use Appian Anywhere to create applications for resale in both vertical and horizontal markets Refers to the entire marketplace that crosses all industry boundaries. See horizontal market software. Contrast with vertical market. . Larger organizations can instantly begin process discovery and documentation, create business performance dashboards and collaborate across geographic boundaries to create core-function process pilots without incurring the typical costs and delays associated with infrastructure hardware and enterprise software license procurements. Detailed information and "first look" product demonstrations of Appian Anywhere will be unveiled at the Gartner Business Process Management Summit February 26 - 28 in San Diego, California “San Diego” redirects here. For other uses, see San Diego (disambiguation). San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has a population of 1,256,951. where Appian will be a Premier Sponsor. The European community European Community: see European Union. European Community (EC) Organization formed in 1967 with the merger of the European Economic Community, European Coal and Steel Community, and European Atomic Energy Community. debut of Appian Anywhere will be in London at the Gartner Business Process Management Summit March 26 - 28. Appian Anywhere subscription prices start as low as $15/month for entry-level users. About Appian Appian is a leading provider of business process management (BPM) technology that helps organizations design, manage, and optimize their business processes. Appian Enterprise has revolutionized process design with a modeling environment that is simple enough for business users yet powerful enough for IT. Appian is the first BPM vendor to combine collaboration and content management with process to create best practice business processes. Appian's patent-pending Active Optimization Technology, which analyzes the in-flight process data stream, not just stored data, helps companies stay ahead of the competition. |
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