It’s 2025, and manual finance workflows are a thing of the past—or at least they should be. Enterprises and organizations in the healthcare, financial services, logistics, and retail sectors deal with thousands of invoices daily. Considering the high volume, automation is the obvious solution to ensure efficient and streamlined operations.

Accounts payable (AP) automation is on the rise as finance teams are realizing the benefits of AP automation solutions currently on the market. Teams that achieve partial automation in their AP processes are seeing considerable benefits in terms of time, cost, and efficiency. With vendors now integrating AI technologies into their software solutions, the potential AP automation benefits promise to change the face of accounts payable altogether.

Government organizations are under pressure to deliver more efficient, transparent, and responsive services. Digital transformation is accelerating the pace of change. Public sector organizations that rely on manual processes can no longer keep up with the demands of modern governance. This is where workflow automation comes in. Automation is a powerful way to streamline operations, enhance service delivery, and improve decision-making.

Businesses across various sectors want to leverage AI to increase efficiency, reduce cost, enhance customer experience, or do all that in one go. The mortgage industry is feeling it, too, thanks to the several potential areas where AI technologies can impact. For instance, AI can help mortgage lenders by: In fact, according to a Fannie Mae survey, mortgage lenders believe compliance, underwriting, and property valuation are all ripe for AI integration.

Documentation forms an integral part of operations in almost every industry. Take logistics and transportation, for example, where companies process hundreds of thousands of documents daily to keep the goods in motion and the supply chain functional. So, what are logistics companies doing to handle such a vast number of documents? More importantly, how can they use the intelligent document processing (IDP) technology to manage their documents and extract the data they need?

Underwriting management is a delicate balance of speed and accuracy. If the underwriting ingestion and decision process is too slow, insurance companies risk losing customers to competitors. On the other hand, hasty underwriting decisions can lead to unprofitable risks in the portfolio. To tackle these challenges, many insurance companies have undergone modernization initiatives.

Over the last decade, data has been hailed as the new oil, the new gold, the new currency, the new soil, and even the new oxygen. All these comparisons drive home the same point: data is important. If you’re running a business today, you need data for informed decision-making and strategy development. However, reliably extracting this data is a constant responsibility.

Federal government agencies are facing a growing workforce challenge. The looming retirement wave, particularly among experienced baby boomers, threatens to leave critical knowledge gaps in agencies that are already struggling with understaffing. To bridge this gap, government agencies must focus on appealing to a younger workforce that brings fresh perspectives, technological expertise, and a strong desire to make an impact.

Appian was already the scalability leader, but the Autoscale feature in our 24.4 release is taking our customers even further. Autoscale lets enterprises execute six million processes per hour. It's what today's IT teams need to handle unprecedented process volume without sacrificing agility. This blog is a technical overview of Autoscale. Appian is the process company. For more than 25 years, industry-defining organizations have turned to Appian to orchestrate their most important processes.

Composability is a growing trend in enterprise software development. It means designing your organization to be flexible so you can adapt to change in real time. Modularity lies at the heart of composability. Modular approaches have been around for decades, such as in service-oriented architecture (SOA) and microservices. But the rise of low-code platforms, cloud computing, and modern integration tools has made it easier to implement composable architectures at scale.