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What is Business Process Orchestration? 4 Essentials

Processes are the foundation of your organization. They lay the groundwork for how your business operates, from product development and customer service to procurement and financial operations—and everything in between. Even work that isn’t formally defined in a process is likely a part of one. If you’ve ever tried to map or document a business process, you’ve probably learned that there’s no straightforward way to get it done.

7 Steps to Implement Better Business Observability

Business observability is like having x-ray vision for your business systems. It allows you to see and understand the inner workings of your operations through the data they generate—logs, metrics, and traces. Unlike traditional monitoring that detects issues, observability dives deeper to reveal why problems occur and their potential business impacts. Without it, you’re flying blind, hoping nothing breaks. It’s like driving a car without a dashboard.

Appian for Financial Regulatory Agencies

Policies and priorities in financial services regulation are constantly shifting. Appian lets you keep up with change in orchestrating the most complex workflows in supervising the financial marketplace, from start to finish. The Appian Platform brings #AI, #ProcessAutomation, and #DataFabric together in a low-code environment so you can unleash digital innovation. With Appian, you’ll automate and optimize your processes from beginning to end so you can compete and win in our rapidly changing world.

6 Ways to Improve Your Incident Management Reporting Process

Every organization faces incidents. These could be simple, such as customers being temporarily locked out of online accounts. Or they could be major incidents that damage your reputation, like a bad customer interaction that gets on the news. Or they could be damaging in another deep way, like a security breach or safety incident in manufacturing. Unplanned events are inevitable. How you handle them will make or break your organization.

Creating Procurements Faster with ProcureSight

When creating a procurement, wouldn’t it be great if you could easily leverage insights from past procurements? Introducing ProcureSight, a one-of-a-kind market reach tool powered by AI that quickly finds similar procurements and automatically provides insights into past suppliers, timelines, and procurement methods to build a better acquisition. See ProcureSight in action and how you can.

Operational Data Fabric: What IT Leaders Need to Know

An operational data fabric focuses explicitly on integrating and managing disparate data in the context of operational systems and processes. It’s tailored to meet the needs of operational data management, often in real time or near real time, to support business operations. Let’s break down some key features of operational data fabric: To fully appreciate the transformative power of operational data fabric, it’s important to understand how it compares to data fabric.

Enterprise Operational Intelligence Tips for IT Leaders

IT organizations serve the business. Their mission is to help optimize business operations to enhance performance across the enterprise and enable the organization to meet mission-critical goals. With the rapid pace of change, it’s critical to make smarter, faster decisions around business processes to generate a tangible, measurable impact.

Supply Chain Best Practices for Pharmaceutical Operations

Due to market pressures and disruptions, life sciences organizations need to reexamine their supply chain operations and how to more safely and efficiently bring products to market. However, deciding where to begin implementing change can be daunting. Here are some best practices for achieving streamlined end-to-end supply chain orchestration.

Improve Your Incident Case Management Process: 5 Strategies for Success

It’s 3 a.m., and your system just went down—again. That’s a nightmare scenario for any IT leader, whether due to a technical glitch or a security incident. This is exactly why incident case management matters. Think of it as air traffic control for your IT environment. Planes in the sky, tickets in the system—both must land safely. Incident case management is about tracking and managing those tickets—incidents—to ensure they get resolved swiftly.

Business Process Orchestration vs. Automation-What's the Difference?

As automation capabilities grow, so do the related use cases. It’s not surprising that 80% of executives think automation can be applied to any business decision, according to a Gartner survey. But as implementation becomes easier and automation adoption more prevalent, your organization can quickly lose control, with too many automation projects happening in silos.