Appian to Demonstrate Leadership at the Transformation and Innovation Conference on Business Process Management.

Appian Executive to Present on Combining BPM and SOA to Increase Business Agility

HERNDON, Va. -- Appian, the leading provider of Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), today announced the company is speaking and exhibiting at the Transformation and Innovation Conference to showcase its award-winning Appian Enterprise BPM suite (BPMS) along with its Appian Anywhere On-Demand solution. The conference is designed to provide attendees with insights into implementing, managing and gaining the greatest value from BPMS which takes place from business transformation initiatives.

Appian's Director of Product Management, Phil Larson will present on Tuesday, May 22 at 2:45 - 3:30 p.m. on 'BPM and SOA - The State of the Industry.' Larson will discuss how the combination of BPM and SOA can help organizations increase their operational agility. Attendees will learn methods for approaching SOA to ensure platform reusability and project success.

Appian is also taking part in the Workflow Management Coalition's (WfMC) events, which are being delivered in partnership with the Transformation and Innovation Conference. With executives on the WfMC board, Appian is dedicated to educating the BPM market and supporting industry standards for software terminology, interoperability and connectivity between workflow products. Attendees will receive real-world case studies, thought leadership sessions from the industry's most experienced practitioners, hands-on sessions from key leaders of business process standards and a variety of keynotes presented by the most influential people in industry.

"Together, the Transformation and Innovation Conference and the WfMC bring together the top industry experts to provide a unique environment for attendees to hear from the industry's thought leaders and learn about the latest breakthroughs," said Phil Larson, Director of Product Management, Appian. "Appian sees great value from the conference agenda and the caliber of experts and end users that it attracts."

Appian is providing conference attendees the opportunity to meet with its leading experts and learn about the company's next-generation BPM, products as well as learn further information about the benefits Appian provides to its customers. Appian Enterprise provides fully integrated process, knowledge and analytics capabilities to drive quantifiable ROI and expedite the delivery of next-generation, process-driven solutions. This solution empowers business users to integrate operational and customer-related data systems from existing internal enterprise systems. Appian Anywhere is 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 is now available through the Internet browser with no downloads required for modeling or running automated processes.

For additional information on the conference, please visit: http://transformationandinnovation.com/pages/papers.php

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. For more information, visit www.appian.com

About The WfMC

Founded in August 1993, the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) is a non-profit, global organization of adopters, developers, consultants, analysts and university/research groups engaged in Business Process Management (BPM). Workflow or BPM is the technology that supports people to do their work. Resulting benefit is more efficiency, traceability, and quality improvements.

WfMC creates and contributes to process related standards and educates on the benefits of process automation. WfMC is the only standards organization that concentrates purely on process. WfMC created XPDL and Wf-XML and had influence on BPMN, OMG workflow interface, ASAP and many other process related standards.