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Digital Transformation for Financial Institutions: Start with the Tech You Have

Financial services institutions are playing the long game in working toward digital transformation. Considering the rapid rate of change and innovation over just the last 10 years, leading financial organizations are realizing that digital transformation isn’t a destination. It’s a journey. While there isn’t one right way to approach digital transformation, some strategies are less effective than others.

Using OAuth2 to access Emails

OAuth 2.0 is becoming a popular alternative for application authentication. With Microsoft discontinuing Basic authentication and making OAuth 2.0 one of their new standards, many developers are sure to be in a situation where they need to change how they handle authentication for popular applications such as mailboxes, exchange services, and more. This article will briefly touch on OAuth 2.0, how it can be used, and an example of using it read mail from an Office 365 mailbox.

Streamline Your Workflow Management System with Appian

Appian orchestrates your people, systems, and data together to streamline your workflow management system. You can get work done fast while still providing customers and employees with the experiences they deserve. Our visual, drag-and-drop interface makes designing workflows easy. Workflow automation accelerates your business, while a low-code design empowers developers to draw processes like a flow chart.

4 Strategic Manufacturing Process Improvements to Reduce Costs

Manufacturing companies face complex challenges in a competitive landscape. To meet these enormous challenges, manufacturers have long invested in continuous improvement methodologies like lean manufacturing. Also, increasing numbers of manufacturers are adapting and investing in Industry 4.0 technologies to tame the complexity by increasing automation, adopting smart machines, and enhancing smart factories.

Don't Use RPA Alone - Build Better Automations Using the Right Technologies

On its own, RPA is a great resource for automating tasks that are manual, repetitive, time-intensive, or part of systems that have no APIs. But there are other automation technologies with capabilities that are much better suited than RPA to the varied and complex parts of your processes. And we think you deserve the power of choice when it comes to how you automate. With Appian, you get access to an entire suite of complete automation capabilities, including intelligent document processing, AI, smart services, integrations, decision rules…and yes, RPA.

Expanding Functionality: Using the new Return function

Developing applications in Linx follows common programming paradigms. This means that it will use variables, loops and if statements in a similar fashion to a traditional programming language. With this in mind, a recent update (6.4.1) introduced the Return function. The Return function is the new standard for returning values to the result of a function or to exit a function at any point. This post will go over what the Return function does and how it can be used.

4 Benefits of Using Process Mining in Finance

Banks and financial institutions are highly regulated, where any noncompliance with strict rules and regulations can lead to heavy fines. Add to that skyrocketing customer expectations and it’s easy to see why finance is so competitive. Success in this environment requires accountability, coupled with process efficiency and the ability to optimize for continuous improvement. How do you get there? Process mining in finance is quickly becoming integral to success.

Step-by-step Guide: Build and host an API

This guide will take you through the steps to build and host an API using Linx. It will cover building a straightforward API to retrieve product data. You will be provided with the data, instructions for what tools to use, relevant scripts and all steps to get the API live. It will take about 20 to 30 minutes to complete all steps.

Options Clearing Corporation: Risk Management Transformation

The Options Clearing Corporation is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing house. It is designated by the US government as a SIFMU - a Systematically Important Financial Market Utility. Hear how the OCC uses Appian across the organization to demonstrate and enforce strict controls to enhance risk management.