AI can offer transformative business value. But you need the right combination of capabilities. Appian is continuing its history of providing practical value to enterprises across industries with the new AI capabilities in our 24.2 release—from 11 new generative AI skills that help you optimize mission-critical processes to the release of our Enterprise Copilot that gives users instant answers to their questions. This post will cover the latest enhancements to our AI offerings.

An application programming interface (API) defines a set of rules and protocols that allow different software entities to communicate with one another. Open or public APIs offer free access to everyone with little or no restrictions. These public APIs allow developers to build innovative solutions and extend existing ones covering a variety of use cases. In this article, we cover some of the best open APIs from different categories.

Organizations use enterprise resource planning (ERP) programs to meet the needs of an always-on culture in which a business's ability to pivot efficiently is important. Our five key takeaways about ERP integration and its business potential are.

Ruby on Rails has long been celebrated for its ‘convention over configuration’ philosophy, simplifying web development for countless programmers. However, what if you’ve started with a lean Rails API-only application and now find yourself needing a front-end? This isn’t uncommon, especially with the rise of JavaScript frameworks and SPAs.

Today we’re excited to announce an expansion of our partnership with Microsoft to deliver a seamless and efficient interoperability experience between Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric OneLake, in preview later this year. This will enable our joint customers to experience bidirectional data access between Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric, with a single copy of data with OneLake in Fabric.

Imagine transforming raw business data into actionable insights with minimal effort. This is the value proposition of automated analytics, a form of data analytics fast becoming more accessible among modern business intelligence (BI) and analytics software solution vendors. Independent software vendors (ISVs) and enterprise organizations at the cusp of investing in analytics struggle with manual data processes that are time-consuming and prone to errors.

When it comes to developing cross-platform apps, Flutter is one of the top choices that comes to developers' minds. But, what’s the reason behind it? Thanks to the innovative cross-platform development capabilities offered by the Flutter framework, creating native applications for both Android and iOS platforms has become remarkably simple.

A look at how to augment LLM results with retrieval augemented generation (RAG) and vector search, directly from BigQuery.