“As a gamer, I wish for it. But as a developer, I wouldn’t want to be working on backward compatibility. It’s soul-crushing maintenance work, man!” – A developer on our team who shall remain unnamed! Let’s call her Dev-I for now. Last week, I was talking to internal Appian developers on backward compatibility (BC) when one of them shared this quote.
Appian has been a recognized leader in cloud-based enterprise software platforms since delivering Appian Cloud in 2007. From the outset, we built our software to integrate with and complement the cloud’s unique advantages, and to protect it from vulnerabilities. We did so with a unique design philosophy, employing cloud-native and globally recognized frameworks like NIST for optimal security protection, business continuity, and enhanced support.
When searching for information or taking action through a public website, end users don’t want to be held back by cumbersome logins or identification requirements. Meanwhile, the organizations on the back end need to be able to quickly and easily create and scale these websites in response to spikes in usage, without compromising security or system performance. Addressing these pain points has been easier said than done—until development of low-code portals, that is.
Low-code BPM may be the most important technology investment your organization will make over the next few years. At KPMG, we see low-code BPM as the future of application development and automation.
In the age of a new normal, remote monitoring and control have become a necessity across the enterprise. The prominence of IoT extends beyond its traditional purpose of sense and integration, evolving to complete end-to-end Enterprise Digital applications that represent physical assets, processes, and environment as a replica in a virtual representation.
Sustainability has rapidly become front and center for companies in virtually all industries, including manufacturing. Regulatory pressures, climate conditions, and heightened consumer and investor awareness are creating new urgency for manufacturers to not only focus more on sustainability initiatives, but to ensure long-term and measurable change.
When you hear buzz words such as ‘Automation’, ‘Low-code’, ‘RPA’, or ‘Hyperautomation’, you may think it’s only reserved for the big-wigs or billion-dollar enterprises. Well, think again! If there’s one thing the last year has taught us, it’s the need to innovate, adapt, and rapidly conform to the changing landscape among organizations of all sizes in order to survive the turbulent climate.
We’ve been speaking with many auto and equipment finance organizations over the last year, and they all say that their technology landscape is growing more complex by the day. The Auto and Equipment Finance Orchestration solution that Accenture has built with Appian seeks to address this.
Enterprise data can be slow and difficult to manage for any organization. This is where low-code data comes in. Low-code data helps eliminate these challenges with a visual interface that makes it fast and easy to take action on data from any source. Introducing Appian 21.3: our latest platform release that removes barriers to data. Appian 21.3 offers major enhancements that make it easier for you to access, relate, and transform your enterprise data.
Look around and you’ll see the benefits of hyperautomation everywhere as it scales business processes faster than a speeding algorithm, takes the friction out of customer engagement, and drives business transformation to the moon and back. In the long run, this trend will likely create a new generation of jobs. But in the short term, it may also raise anxiety among workers fearing job loss amid the post-COVID hyperautomation boom. To put this anxiety into perspective.
