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The 7 Practices that Separate the Automation Leaders from the Laggards

Appian surveyed 500 senior banking and asset management executives from around the world about the drivers, challenges, and opportunities on the path to automation maturity. We classified survey respondents as either automation leaders, laggards, or part of the mainstream.

Of Low-code, Digital Trust, and Staying Ahead of the Risk Curve, Part 2

Business process automation shifted into high gear during the COVID-19 crisis, making technologies such as low-code platforms, AI, and robotic process automation (RPA) critical success factors for any organization in the decade ahead. The same is true for the insurance industry where many companies are leaning into hyperautomation to streamline operations and take friction out of the customer journey as well. But pivoting from paper to digital isn’t easy.

Automation Shouldn't Be Hard: Appian RPA updates to simplify your job.

Last month, we unveiled Appian 21.3 with new product enhancements that help customers develop apps and automations even faster. And now, we’re excited to announce updates to Appian RPA that simplify the already-easy Appian low-code experience even more—including the reveal of the new Appian RPA task recorder that allows you to record browser automations right from your workflow designer.

Of Low-code, Digital Trust, and Staying Ahead of the Risk Curve, Part 1

We talk about risk like it’s a bad thing. But all innovation involves risk. Which isn’t necessarily bad. Not if the consequences of being wrong about it don’t pose an existential threat. But businesses everywhere are struggling to cope with doomsday scenarios such as climate change, cyber smash-and-grabs, the global COVID-19 crisis, and more.

The evolution of low-code programming

Low-code platforms enable rapid delivery of business applications with a minimum of hand-coding and minimal upfront investment in setup, training, and deployment. Building a low-code app development platform consists of two developer-facing parts: This video looks at the history of low-code tools and how these two parts evolved separately before merging to create the low-code platforms of today. Part 1 of 4 of a webinar hosted by Linx and the University of Leicester.

The Business Case for Low-code

Is attempting to solve lots of problems at once using a single platform considered expensive or cheap? It depends, of course, on the platform, the fit to your needs, and how you make use of it. In the current environment where the landscape of apps is growing in every arena, the challenge is to figure out how to create as many apps as possible that can be easily adapted and maintained. Low-code application platforms are claiming to be a solution.

Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) and Low-code

The service-oriented architecture (SOA) methodology was created to accelerate and simplify the crucial task of bringing enterprise software applications to market. But what is an SOA - and is it still relevant today? This video explores this subject and how it aligns with today's modern low-code application development platforms. Part 3 of 4 of a webinar hosted by Linx and the University of Leicester.

Appian Connected Onboarding and Connected Servicing

Onboarding institutional clients is complex, risky and unacceptably slow. It often takes many months to onboard an institution as a client and the stakes are high — the longer it takes, the greater the risk of delay or loss of revenue. And after onboarding a client, it is important to stay agile to ensure their service requests are met quickly and accurately.

A mysterious developer's take on backward compatibility

“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.