It’s amazing how much we can get done by automating business processes. Whether it’s augmenting human labor, reducing risks, or making customers happy, when we do automation right, we can make big things happen in any organization. Perhaps this is why: In other words, falling behind the automation curve could be lethal. Coming out on top means automating as if the future of your business depended on it.
If 2020 taught businesses anything, it’s that being able to turn on a dime and change everything about how you operate isn’t a “nice to have” – it’s a must. The demand for low-code technologies and automation was already climbing, but the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the need to re-orchestrate broken processes and reduce manual tasks.
The mainstreaming of low-code development has changed the business automation landscape. And the blistering pace of this fast-moving trend—of combining and scaling artificial intelligence, and low-code—is at the heart of the hyperautomation movement. So says Neil Ward-Dutton in his chapter of the recently published HYPERAUTOMATION, a collection of expert essays on low-code development and the future of business automation.
In retrospect, 2020 was a year of unprecedented change. Noone could have foreseen what the last 12 months would bring. But in Europe and the Middle East, we’ve adapted to make the most of the situation, building solutions to help our customers keep their customers and staff safe and engaged. Here’s a recap of our top 10 moments from a year like no other.
Whether or not you know it, your organization is at a tipping point. On one side, siloed and inefficient business processes represent the status quo, and on the other, your organization needs to leave this status quo back where it belongs–in 2020–and rethink and reshape your business. Digital transformation is the Emerald City we’ve been marching towards for years, but the yellow brick road has been far more perilous than expected.
At AppianGovernment, a record number of government customers and partners participated in 49 sessions with government executives, Appian technology experts, and partners. Leaders from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Marine Corps, Health Canada, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Department of Education, and other innovative organizations described how low-code automation is accelerating and simplifying the modernization of their mission systems.
For healthcare and life sciences organizations, 2020 began like many other years. They looked to the year ahead and focused on how to best serve their patients, members, and other constituents through their latest innovation. As we now know, nothing about 2020 was ordinary, especially for leaders within these industries.
Nucleus Research recently released its 2020 vendor evaluation for Low-Code Application Platforms, in which Appian is ranked as the clear leader against 15 low code application platform (LCAP) vendors.
In the Oil and Gas sector, operational excellence is always strived for, but can be very challenging to achieve. With siloed systems, manual tasks and data handoffs, changing regulatory requirements, and a large web of people involved in process execution, it is getting increasingly difficult to efficiently and accurately orchestrate operations.
“By year’s end, 75% of development shops will use low-code platforms” Forrester recently released its Predictions 2021: Software Development, providing insight into the application development and delivery landscape in 2021. While the report includes a number of predictions, two predictions are particularly relevant to Appian: Forrester predicts that: The Appian Low-Code Automation Platform helps organizations build elegant solutions for complex business problems.
