Appian Named a Leader in Human-Centric BPMS for Banking and Investments by Leading Independent Research Firm.

Appian "Excels in Compliance"; "Offers Strong Financial Institution Leadership and Expertise"

VIENNA, Va. -- Appian, an innovative global provider of business process management (BPM) technology, was recognized as a Leader in the August 2007 report The Forrester Wave[TM]: Human-Centric BPMS for Banking And Investments, Q3 2007. Forrester noted Appian's "human-centric BPMS capabilities and deep pre-built processes for banks and investment firms" helped the company establish its position as a leader with banking and investments organizations. This industry recognition follows Appian's placement as a Leader in The Forrester Wave[TM]: Human-Centric BPM For Java Platforms, Q3 2007, released August 2, 2007, where Forrester found that Appian's BPM suite, Appian Enterprise, "is the easiest to use for building processes that pull together human work, analytics, and collaboration tools."

In The Forrester Wave[TM]: Human-Centric BPMS for Banking And Investments, Q3 2007, Forrester states that Appian "excels in compliance with a separate compliance manager tool to support the needs of FSIs [financial services institutions]....Appian offers strong FI [financial institution] leadership and expertise. Other strengths include a very solid interface framework with a three-tiered approach to interfacing with common banking and investment applications. Finally, Appian has built crosschannel capabilities that specifically enable visibility across all channels and support the idea of a single enterprise process, configurable by channel and LOB [line of business]".

"Managing business processes is not a one-size-fits-all solution, and businesses in the highly regulated banking and investments industry have unique process challenges," stated Matt Calkins, Appian chief executive officer. "Appian has been diligent in building a product that empowers financial services customers to proactively address their process, business and regulatory requirements. The placement of Appian as a Leader on this Forrester Wave reflects our ongoing commitment to driving tangible benefits in financial services institutions."

Appian works with financial services organizations around the world to help them manage regulation, globalization and consolidation issues. With a large number of dedicated financial services resources and significant research and development efforts focusing on financial services industry needs, Appian's BPM suite provides smart services, rules, pre-built forms and interfaces, and process templates specific to the needs of financial services organizations. Thus, customers are able to get to market faster with financial services applications and processes such as loan origination, account origination, credit management, and compliance with financial industry standards and regulations.

For more information on how Appian BPM suite and solutions meet the needs of financial services organizations worldwide, please visit http://www.appian.com/solutions/industry/financialservices.jsp. For more information about Appian Enterprise, please visit http://www.appian.com/product.jsp.

About Appian

Appian is an innovative global provider of business process management (BPM) technology. By implementing Appian's BPM technology, business and governments worldwide are empowered to easily drive process improvement. Appian's flexible and easy-to-use products enable customers to quickly adopt BPM while providing real-time business visibility. Headquartered in the Washington D.C. region, Appian has professional services and partners worldwide to address the process improvement requirements of its customers. For more information, visit www.appian.com.