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June 2021

From Disruption to Innovation: How to Build a Resilient Supply Chain

It’s no secret that there has been massive disruption across global supply chains over the past year. In fact, 94% of Fortune 1000 companies have stated that they are facing supply chain disruptions from COVID-19. Many factors have conspired to drive disruption, leading to increased costs and delays for many industries and ultimately impacting the prices that companies and consumers pay for goods.

Appian RPA 7.9 Is Here with New Features to Help You Automate Even Faster

The Appian RPA 7.9 release unveils important new updates that make it easier for you to improve the speed and efficiency of your robotic process automation (RPA) workflows: Feature: Manage multiple browser types in a single RPA execution. - Problem solved: Sometimes complex workflows require the use of multiple browsers in a single automation. Does your process contain tasks that must be completed in legacy systems that can only be accessed on specific browsers (like Internet Explorer)?

What Defines an Automation Leader in Financial Services and How Do You Compare?

Banking and asset management are advancing into a new era of automation, where human talents, bots, and AI are seamlessly and flexibly unified into cohesive, hyper-efficient workflows. This creates an avalanche of new opportunities for innovation, value-creation, and improved profitability. In light of this need for digital transformation, Appian commissioned a study through the Financial Times' research arm, Longitude, to gain actionable insights on automation.

Appian Community Edition is Here!

Appian is excited to announce the launch of Appian Community Edition! Appian Community Edition is our free version of the Appian Low-Code Automation Platform for Appian Community members who want to learn how to build business applications or improve their skills. Appian Community Edition provides hands-on experience for everyone, including developers, IT professionals, automation professionals, university students, prospective customers, current Appian customers, and Appian partners.

Beyond Vaccinations: 3 COVID-19 Lessons for Tomorrow's Workplace

Creating a healthy workplace is not just the right thing to do for employees. It’s also essential to a successful business. Healthcare costs associated with employee illness were staggering even before the COVID-19 pandemic. In a recent study, the Integrated Benefits Institute estimated that US employers spent over half a trillion dollars ($575 billion) annually on poor employee health. Out of every dollar companies spent on healthcare, they lost $0.61 due to illness or injury.

Appian Accelerates App Development by 17x According to New Forrester Study

The data is in: Appian accelerates application development by 17x and provides a 389% return on investment (ROI) with less than six months payback. These findings come from the Forrester Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Appian, which examines enterprises’ return on investment after deploying the Appian Low-Code Automation Platform.

Appian for Retail

Appian is an enterprise software company that delivers low-code automation to some of the largest organizations in the world, including 2 of the top 3 biggest retailers. Learn how Retailers are using Appian for automation initiatives, including the areas of Merchandising Management, Supply Chain Orchestration, Store Operations, Customer Experience, Safety, Risk & Compliance, and Corporate Systems. For more information, visit appian.com/retail.

Insights from Booz Allen: Mission Advancers accelerate IT modernization projects through low-code

IT modernization used to be an overwhelming concept, often evoking fears of spending billions of dollars with no guarantees of success. While it used to pose the threat of taking years to implement, that is no longer the reality. Low-code has changed the game, allowing agencies to accelerate modernization timelines to the point where they can see an impact in a matter of months, not years.

5G Meets Low-code: Innovation Backbone for the Post-COVID World, Part 2

The 5G hype train is generating a lot of buzz about a technology revolution that promises to pump a staggering $12 trillion into the global economy by 2035 and add over 20 million new jobs in the US alone. But behind the buzz, low-code automation is making the 5G hype legit as network operators turn to low-code platforms to deploy new 5G connectivity that’s exponentially faster and more powerful than 4th generation mobile.

Global Supply Chain Strategy - Building Resilience with Agility

Appian Life Sciences and Supply Chain Industry Leaders describe a low-code platform approach to drive agility and enhance resilience in the face of the current trends accelerated by the pandemic. There was always the need to boost communications, tighten controls, and enable teams to have the right information available at the appropriate time to make rapid decisions, however, with the jarring impacts of the past year new innovative approaches are needed. These approaches include moving from legacy hardened processes to building organizational capacity to build, test, and learn in rapid succession and develop the resilience to an ever changing ecosystem.

5G Meets Low-code: Innovation Backbone for the Post-COVID World, Part 1

They tell us 5G is the future. Where business and consumers are going. But the fierce battle for early adopters is already underway according to Peter Linder, a notable 5G evangelist and Head of 5G Marketing for Ericsson in North America. “Early adopters are getting on board right now,” says Linder. “About 54 million Americans will purchase a 5G phone by the end of 2021. It’s not like ‘build the network and they will come’.

Low-code is the Jet Fuel for Application Development

"Low-code is the Jet Fuel for Application Development" presented by Suvajit Gupta, EVP Engineering - Appian presentation from the 2021 Gartner Application Innovation and Business Solutions Summit While businesses need to rapidly build innovative solutions, IT departments often find themselves bogged down with activities that constrain their ability to actually develop them. Low-code development offers a powerful way to change how IT organizations work. This session will discuss how low-code development fuels innovation by improving business/IT collaboration and accelerating development.