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  |  By Aaron Zafran
We are in the middle of the fastest acceleration in software development that the industry has ever seen. Thanks to highly capable models from technology leaders like Anthropic and OpenAI, we have entered the era of vibe coding—a world where developers describe what they want in natural language and get working software in return.
  |  By Kait Bonifaz
If you are like most enterprise leaders, you are managing a sprawling estate of hundreds—or even thousands—of disjointed legacy applications built on outdated frameworks, consuming an estimated 55% to 80% of your IT budget just to "keep the lights on." This legacy drag stifles innovation. Yet the traditional answer—"rip-and-replace"—often makes things worse. Multi-year, high-risk projects that rewrite everything from scratch can be catastrophic.
  |  By Rachel Nizinski
Appian’s latest updates deliver powerful new tools to consolidate legacy systems, automate complex knowledge work, and scale data integration. Modernization projects are notoriously high risk, but Composer derisks the start of your journey by ensuring total stakeholder alignment before development begins.
  |  By Rachel Nizinski
IT leaders today are in a high-stakes gridlock between the pressure to invest in new AI solutions and legacy systems that aren’t equipped to support them. With the pace of work today, long modernization projects are often untenable. They disrupt your workflows. They use up your team’s resources. And they sometimes fail to deliver results. So how do successful organizations move forward? They rethink their approach.
  |  By Sabrina Mei
Intelligent document processing (IDP) promised a paperless future for businesses and organizations. But despite significant investment, a critical gap often persists between the technological capability to extract data and the organizational ability to actually drive meaningful business outcomes. 78% of enterprises are now operational with some form of AI-powered document processing, yet 52% of staff time remains consumed by manual document tasks.1 This paradox reveals the new IDP market reality.
  |  By Kait Bonifaz
We are living through a renaissance in software development. In February 2025, computer scientist Andrej Karpathy coined the term "vibe coding" to describe a new state of human-computer interaction. In this model, developers stop acting like bricklayers—manually laying every line of syntax—and start acting like architects. They design the outcome with natural language, and AI handles the construction, translating their vision into working software.
  |  By Matthew Shutt
Reading emails, scanning contracts, manually processing invoices—the tedious tasks related to document processing can jam up your business operations. Document processing is a prime candidate for automation, but the technology is advancing so fast, it can be hard to know where to start or when it is time to modernize. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and IDP (Intelligent Document Processing) are two approaches to tackling business documents.
  |  By Gregg Aldana
If you’re an SAP customer, you’ve probably heard the same pitch more than once: just wait a little longer. Your migration to S/4HANA will unlock the agility you need. Your SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) investments will catch up soon. Your workflows will get faster. Your data will become more accessible. Just a little more time. But what if you can’t wait? What if your supply chain teams are buried under manual work?
  |  By Gregg Aldana
If you’re an SAP customer, you’ve probably heard the same pitch more than once: just wait a little longer. Your migration to S/4HANA will unlock the agility you need. Your SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) investments will catch up soon. Your workflows will get faster. Your data will become more accessible. Just a little more time. But what if you can’t wait? What if your supply chain teams are buried under manual work?
  |  By Julien Clement
Government organizations are under increasing pressure to act with agility, collaborate across departments, and make fast, data-driven decisions. In the defense sector, these challenges are heightened by the need to unify complex functions in support of national security. Internal processes must be as effective and responsive as the forces they serve.
  |  By Appian
It's time to bring AI off the sidelines and into the center of your operations. Appian's latest product innovations deliver enhancements for scaling enterprise data management, automating complex work, and accelerating modernization with AI. Discover Appian’s latest innovations from this quarter's releases.
  |  By Appian
Appian embeds AI in your business processes, turning it into a powerful digital worker with goals, governance, and accountability.
  |  By Appian
Discover how VASS, a global digital transformation leader, partnered with Appian to revolutionize their procurement process with Appian AI. Learn how they achieved a 40% reduction in processing time and a 70% decrease in email communication, streamlining operations and mitigating risks as they work toward their VASS @ 1 billion goal by 2028.
  |  By Appian
Learn about Appian Composer, an AI-augmented development tool that accelerates application modernization. It provides a guided experience that takes business and IT from idea to application seamlessly using generative AI.
  |  By Appian
What does real transformation look like in practice? Across industries, organizations are using Appian to simplify complexity, automate mission-critical work, and deliver measurable results fast. In this customer montage, hear directly from leaders who are driving meaningful change with the Appian Platform. From reducing onboarding from six months to just four days, to achieving immediate efficiency gains and scaling to thousands of clients without adding headcount, these stories show how organizations are evolving as the world changes.
  |  By Appian
Leverage Intelligent Extraction and Insights in the Underwriting Process.
  |  By Appian
Appian is the leading platform for AI-powered process orchestration, automation, and intelligence. With Appian, organizations are transforming their mission-critical processes for better outcomes. Discover Appian’s latest innovations from the 25.4 release.
  |  By Appian
What does real transformation look like in practice? Across industries, organizations are using Appian to simplify complexity, automate mission-critical work, and deliver measurable results fast. In this customer montage, hear directly from leaders who are driving meaningful change with the Appian Platform. From reducing onboarding from six months to just four days, to achieving immediate efficiency gains and scaling to thousands of clients without adding headcount, these stories show how organizations are evolving as the world changes.
  |  By Appian
What does real transformation look like in practice? Across industries, organizations are using Appian to simplify complexity, automate mission-critical work, and deliver measurable results fast. In this customer montage, hear directly from leaders who are driving meaningful change with the Appian Platform. From reducing onboarding from six months to just four days, to achieving immediate efficiency gains and scaling to thousands of clients without adding headcount, these stories show how organizations are evolving as the world changes.
  |  By Appian
Siloed tools are sinking your team's potential. Business orchestration and automation technologies (BOAT) solve this. This session unveils powerful strategies for mastering end-to-end processes with a unified platform for AI, data, and automation. The result? Lower cost of ownership for IT and accelerated time to value for your business initiatives.
  |  By Appian
Governments are facing unprecedented levels of uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic. CIOs must identify and act upon digital government strategies and plans that can lead to future positive outcomes regardless of the uncertainty. But what are the biggest factors affecting digital transformation across government? And to what extent has COVID-19 affected digital government efforts?
  |  By Appian
Customer Experience (CX) in healthcare can feel like an afterthought, or not thought of at all. As customers gain further choices across the board about their healthcare options, organizations must respond with a higher standard of service for patients, members, and providers. Healthcare organizations must face CX head-on, ensuring customers receive the service they deserve and representatives have the solutions they need to deliver quality CX.
  |  By Appian
Are the business automation technologies at your financial institution creating experiences that enable your employees to better-serve and anticipate the needs of your customers, establish human connections, and create stronger customer relationships? Appian partnered with IDG to conduct this market research.
  |  By Appian
Cutting through the clutter to stand out as a partner to consumers, not just another faceless company, is paramount. As customer behaviors and digital services evolve due to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations are looking to contact centers and their agents to deliver CX that goes above and beyond in the face of a digitally-driven new normal. Download this CCW Market Study to learn.
  |  By Appian
There is ever-growing supply chain disruption and impact across all industries. New disruptors such as COVID-19 are influencing speed of operations and customer demand. Download this ebook to learn how organizations can meet and exceed customer expectations in this uncertain time.
  |  By Appian
Automation has been pushed to the top of the agenda by many organizations, with CIOs having to balance the immediate needs of their organization with a clear eye on the future. Some CIOs are wary of the hype surrounding RPA. But, automation has always encompassed more than one technology, and IT leaders committed to a culture of automation should look to peers for successful strategies that utilize the best available tools.

Appian provides a low-code automation platform that accelerates the creation of high-impact business applications. Many of the world’s largest organizations use Appian applications to improve customer experience, achieve operational excellence, and simplify global risk management and compliance.

We help you automate and transform your business by creating new apps from scratch, or by connecting and enhancing legacy applications – all up to 20X faster than traditional development. With Appian, you get the speed of low-code development with the power of intelligent automation in one trusted and unified cloud platform.

Automate complex workflows at the speed of low-code:

  • A fully unified platform delivering the right technology for the right job: Only Appian natively unites all the capabilities required to deliver impactful, end-to-end processes across your organization. Now you can build more powerful apps and dramatically increase productivity.
  • Unify your data into a single interface with zero-code integrations—not migrations: Get the flexibility you need to bring data together from across your organization into a single interface, so action can be taken when and where it’s needed. You control your data. No migration, no lock-ins, and no transaction or storage fees.
  • Develop and deploy up to 20x faster: Drive innovation at unprecedented speeds. We don’t just say it, we guarantee it. Design apps with a mouse click, using reusable components to build quickly. Our apps run even the most mission-critical and complex processes.

One platform. Powerful automation, delivered fast.