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June 2026 - Quarterly Product Innovation Webinar

When AI operates outside the flow of work, it lacks the context and connectivity needed to drive meaningful business outcomes. Appian innovations over the last quarter are designed to bridge this gap by continuing to make it safe and easy to embed AI directly into end-to-end processes. Join Appian product experts for a deep dive into the latest platform features and see how to use new capabilities in your applications.

Appian Q2 Product Highlights: Helping You Move from Standalone AI Tools to Orchestrated AI Workflows

Organizations have rapidly adopted artificial intelligence, but a stark divide is emerging: those who are embedding AI into the core of their operations, and those who are treating it as a standalone tool. According to a recent Harvard Business Review Analytic Services survey, only a small share of resondents say their organization has largely integrated AI into workflows.

How to Take AI Pilots Successfully to Production in 2026?

Every CIO has a slide deck full of AI pilots by now. A chatbot that answers FAQs. A copilot that drafts emails. An agent that summarizes meetings and files the notes nobody reads. The demos get applause in the boardroom, the budget gets approved for “phase two,” and then largely nothing happens. The pilot quietly lives on in a sandbox, forever 80% done, forever six weeks from launch. If that sounds familiar, you are not behind. You are, statistically, in the majority.

AI chat stream resumption: when Redis is enough, and when you need durable sessions

There's a well-worn path to resumable AI chat streams: find the Vercel SDK docs, implement Redis-backed replay, and ship it. For many products, that's the right call. The challenge arises when the product goes further than that. AI customer support tools that handle complex queries over 30-plus seconds. Agents that keep working while the user switches from their laptop to their phone.

Perforce Autonomous Testing: One Test, Total Coverage

What if testing could finally keep up with your release speed? With Perforce Autonomous Testing, teams can simply describe what they want to validate, and AI takes care of execution, orchestration, and analysis across functional and performance testing. Built on a unified testing platform, Perforce brings everything together into a single workflow to eliminate manual setup, reduce reliance on specialists, and deliver faster, in-sprint feedback.

Ruby vs. Python (Why Python Won and Ruby Didn't)

In 2006, the TIOBE Index crowned Ruby its Language of the Year for posting the fastest growth rate of anything on the list. Two decades later, it's settled in around - respectable, but a long way down from where it once stood. Ruby went from "the future of programming" to "wait, people still use that?" within a single career. This isn't a eulogy, though - stick around, because Ruby is very much alive, just not where the headlines are looking.

EU Cyber Resilience Act: Is Your Software Compliant? (2026 State of Open Source Report)

What does the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) mean for open source software, software supply chain security, and regulatory compliance? In this clip from the 2026 State of Open Source Report webinar, experts discuss how the European Union's Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is reshaping software security requirements for organizations that develop, distribute, and integrate software products. The panel explores why the CRA is one of the most significant regulatory developments affecting the software industry and how it impacts both commercial software vendors and the open source ecosystem.