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December 2020

Automation: The Future of Work

Whether or not you know it, your organization is at a tipping point. On one side, siloed and inefficient business processes represent the status quo, and on the other, your organization needs to leave this status quo back where it belongs–in 2020–and rethink and reshape your business. Digital transformation is the Emerald City we’ve been marching towards for years, but the yellow brick road has been far more perilous than expected.

Appian Workforce Safety

Appian Workforce Safety is designed to help your organization deliver a safe onsite work experience in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. See how this solution provides contact tracing, capacity management, health status reporting, and return-to-workplace certification. Plus, built on Appian's low-code automation platform, and available in our HIPAA-compliant and HITRUST-certified cloud, you can trust your organization's information is secure.

Government Customers Take Center Stage at AppianGovernment 2020 Live

At AppianGovernment, a record number of government customers and partners participated in 49 sessions with government executives, Appian technology experts, and partners. Leaders from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Marine Corps, Health Canada, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Department of Education, and other innovative organizations described how low-code automation is accelerating and simplifying the modernization of their mission systems.

Healthcare and Life Sciences Digital Trends for 2021

For healthcare and life sciences organizations, 2020 began like many other years. They looked to the year ahead and focused on how to best serve their patients, members, and other constituents through their latest innovation. As we now know, nothing about 2020 was ordinary, especially for leaders within these industries.

Podcast: Achieving Operational Excellence in Oil and Gas

In the Oil and Gas sector, operational excellence is always strived for, but can be very challenging to achieve. With siloed systems, manual tasks and data handoffs, changing regulatory requirements, and a large web of people involved in process execution, it is getting increasingly difficult to efficiently and accurately orchestrate operations.

Forrester predicts significant increase in low-code platform adoption in 2021 & beyond

“By year’s end, 75% of development shops will use low-code platforms” Forrester recently released its Predictions 2021: Software Development, providing insight into the application development and delivery landscape in 2021. While the report includes a number of predictions, two predictions are particularly relevant to Appian: Forrester predicts that: The Appian Low-Code Automation Platform helps organizations build elegant solutions for complex business problems.

Appian 20.4 - Driving Hyperautomation into 2021

With the Appian 20.4 release, we’ve made it faster and easier to build new applications, extend legacy systems, and automate any business processes. 2021 is the year of Hyperautomation. Your workforce will be fully enabled by AI, bots, and other automation technologies in seamless interactions and processes. Appian is the only platform that orchestrates people, processes, bots and AI in a single workflow.

People-Powered Digital Transformation

Digital transformation is one thing. Getting people involved is another. Right now, there’s a disconnect between the culture of digital transformation that companies say they aspire to create and the organizational behavior they actually have, says Lisa Heneghan, Chief Digital Officer and a member of the Executive Committee of KPMG, UK. But here’s the good news: Organizations that invest in bridging the people gap will benefit the most from innovation, according to Heneghan.

6 Tech Trends and Predictions That Are Happening Faster Than You Think

Whoa! Another prediction season is already upon us. Shaped by the fast-moving aftershocks of the COVID-19 crisis, 2021 promises to be a time of change. As usual, we made our predictions list and checked it twice. But rather than guess the future, we asked experts, business leaders, and big thinkers to help us size up noteworthy trends and technologies that should be on your radar in 2021 and beyond. Here’s a quick rundown of what we found out.

Responding to COVID-19 in the Workplace: CDC Says Case Management Can Help

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released recommendations on how organizations should use case management solutions to manage returning to onsite work in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the CDC, case management tools can “make the traditional contact tracing process faster and more efficient” by streamlining data capture and management and merging workflows with other workforce management solutions such as surveillance systems.