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How to Reframe Modernization for the AI Era

IT leaders today are in a high-stakes gridlock between the pressure to invest in new AI solutions and legacy systems that aren’t equipped to support them. With the pace of work today, long modernization projects are often untenable. They disrupt your workflows. They use up your team’s resources. And they sometimes fail to deliver results. So how do successful organizations move forward? They rethink their approach.

Real Outcomes with Appian: How Customers Achieve Speed, Scale, and Efficiency

What does real transformation look like in practice? Across industries, organizations are using Appian to simplify complexity, automate mission-critical work, and deliver measurable results fast. In this customer montage, hear directly from leaders who are driving meaningful change with the Appian Platform. From reducing onboarding from six months to just four days, to achieving immediate efficiency gains and scaling to thousands of clients without adding headcount, these stories show how organizations are evolving as the world changes.

Unified Document Processing: Why Standalone IDP Can't Compete with End-to-End Document Automation

Intelligent document processing (IDP) promised a paperless future for businesses and organizations. But despite significant investment, a critical gap often persists between the technological capability to extract data and the organizational ability to actually drive meaningful business outcomes. 78% of enterprises are now operational with some form of AI-powered document processing, yet 52% of staff time remains consumed by manual document tasks.1 This paradox reveals the new IDP market reality.

Maintaining the Vibes: How to Turn AI Coding into Enterprise Value

We are living through a renaissance in software development. In February 2025, computer scientist Andrej Karpathy coined the term "vibe coding" to describe a new state of human-computer interaction. In this model, developers stop acting like bricklayers—manually laying every line of syntax—and start acting like architects. They design the outcome with natural language, and AI handles the construction, translating their vision into working software.

IDP vs. OCR: Evolving Approaches to Document Processing

Reading emails, scanning contracts, manually processing invoices—the tedious tasks related to document processing can jam up your business operations. Document processing is a prime candidate for automation, but the technology is advancing so fast, it can be hard to know where to start or when it is time to modernize. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and IDP (Intelligent Document Processing) are two approaches to tackling business documents.

Real Outcomes with Appian: How Customers Achieve Speed, Scale, and Efficiency

What does real transformation look like in practice? Across industries, organizations are using Appian to simplify complexity, automate mission-critical work, and deliver measurable results fast. In this customer montage, hear directly from leaders who are driving meaningful change with the Appian Platform. From reducing onboarding from six months to just four days, to achieving immediate efficiency gains and scaling to thousands of clients without adding headcount, these stories show how organizations are evolving as the world changes.

Appian Supercharges SAP with Serious AI

If you’re an SAP customer, you’ve probably heard the same pitch more than once: just wait a little longer. Your migration to S/4HANA will unlock the agility you need. Your SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) investments will catch up soon. Your workflows will get faster. Your data will become more accessible. Just a little more time. But what if you can’t wait? What if your supply chain teams are buried under manual work?