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Appian Vice President Malcolm Ross will outline the new technology imperatives for process improvement, and how industry leaders are using them to drive value. He will also pay special attention to enterprise mobility issues such as security, cost, and governance to show how next-generation BPM ensures safe and secure mobile participation in critical business processes.
In addition, you will learn how the Appian BPM Suite extends process participation across the organization – from executives to partners and customers.
The Appian BPM Suite creates agile organizations that respond quickly to change – the hallmark of competitive advantage.
Key PointsEnterprises today rely heavily on ineffective tools to manage processes – such as Email, MS Office, and Disconnected Back-end SystemsOvertime – Organizations lose control of processes resulting in Inconsistent processingHigh ErrorsIneffective CommunicationInvisible BottlenecksLost Productivity and RevenueCommon Aspects of Enterprise Processes includeInformal ProcessesNo Audit-abilityNo VisibiliyNo Clear PrioritiesNo ConsistencyDisconnected SystemsInefficient Work AreasHigh Error Rates
Key PointsA BPMS System unites your systems, people, and information into coherent processes A BPMS makes it easy for business users to easily model processes that deliverClear Process DefinitionsEnforced Business RulesReal-Time Visibility into Process StatusSupport for Agile ChangesIntegrated Systems for more Efficient Work ProcessingEnforced AccuracyConsistent ExecutionSLA EnforcementAbility to Analyze and Adapt processes rapidly over time
Key NotesBecause of Appian’s integrated suite solution, Appian is unmatched in it’s ability to support rapid process innovation cycles that flow thruDesign – including BPMN based process modeling, rapid form and UI creation, and capturing your enterprise data and rulesExecution – Integrating to key systems, Serving tasks and forms to process participants in web and mobile interfaces, and scalability to millions of users on a single environmentManagement – Managers can easily re-route work to handle exceptions, collaborate with process participants, and manage workloads to ensure processes are moving along efficientlyOptimize – Analysts can aggregate past performance and identify bottlenecks that can speed processes and save money. As opportunities for improvement are identified, changes can be quickly made in the Design interfaces to rapidly adapt processes and support a culture of continuous process improvement.
Key PointsThe Appian Process Modeler is the main design interface for modeling, executing and optimizing your business processesAppian is the only vendor that successfully accomplishes this in a single modeling interface, with no need to transfer models between different modeling platforms for each phaseAs you can see, the process modeler is design for business users to clearly understand and document each activity in their business. From the interface, a process can be immediately executed with no need to write or compile code. From the execution menu, you can track individual process instances with completed activities in blue and active activities in green. Node statistics may be turned on at anytime for a real-time tracking of activity performance as well as a comparison of the current processes performance to other processes and the desired SLA goal.
Key PointsAppian delivers this cycle in a single integrated suite solution, with specialized interfaces for each of the roles of users to participate in process improvementBusiness Analysts use the Web-based design tools to create the processes, rules, reports, and forms that support your enterprise processes.Appian the only vendor the fully delivers on the promise of business user empowerment with simple interfaces designed for users who have skillsets based on MS Office and not complex codingDevelopers in Appian can focus on creating complex and re-usable Smart Services that can be easily consumed by Business Analysts for orchestration. Smart Services are an abstration of Service Objects in the traditional SOA sense, but are designed for easy consumption by business users. With no UDDI servers to navigate or WSDL definitions to parse, business users are presented simple point and click configurations for performing complex process actions or integrations to external systems.Appian further supports a simple application migration methodology which allows developers to review business analysts work before publishing into production. Appian’s native support for discussion forums and dashboard collaboration make it easy to support feedback sessions on new process applications or share best practices in process design.Workers and Manager interfaces are optimized to monitor in-flight work, collaborate, and complete assigned tasks from both web and mobile devices.