After more than a year of navigating the sudden impacts of COVID-19 on employees around the world, we’re beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Vaccination rates are up—with over 50% of American adults having received at least one dose—daily virus case totals have dramatically declined, and many organizations are putting large-scale return-to-work plans in motion.
I recently had the opportunity to attend and present at NRF’s Retail Converge Event. After a year of disruption, changing operations, and a new normaI for consumer behavior, several important topics came to the forefront for leading retailers. Here are my top five takeaways from the event: There is a heightened push to modernize supply chains.
It’s no secret that there has been massive disruption across global supply chains over the past year. In fact, 94% of Fortune 1000 companies have stated that they are facing supply chain disruptions from COVID-19. Many factors have conspired to drive disruption, leading to increased costs and delays for many industries and ultimately impacting the prices that companies and consumers pay for goods.
The Appian RPA 7.9 release unveils important new updates that make it easier for you to improve the speed and efficiency of your robotic process automation (RPA) workflows: Feature: Manage multiple browser types in a single RPA execution. - Problem solved: Sometimes complex workflows require the use of multiple browsers in a single automation. Does your process contain tasks that must be completed in legacy systems that can only be accessed on specific browsers (like Internet Explorer)?
Banking and asset management are advancing into a new era of automation, where human talents, bots, and AI are seamlessly and flexibly unified into cohesive, hyper-efficient workflows. This creates an avalanche of new opportunities for innovation, value-creation, and improved profitability. In light of this need for digital transformation, Appian commissioned a study through the Financial Times' research arm, Longitude, to gain actionable insights on automation.
Appian is excited to announce the launch of Appian Community Edition! Appian Community Edition is our free version of the Appian Low-Code Automation Platform for Appian Community members who want to learn how to build business applications or improve their skills. Appian Community Edition provides hands-on experience for everyone, including developers, IT professionals, automation professionals, university students, prospective customers, current Appian customers, and Appian partners.
Creating a healthy workplace is not just the right thing to do for employees. It’s also essential to a successful business. Healthcare costs associated with employee illness were staggering even before the COVID-19 pandemic. In a recent study, the Integrated Benefits Institute estimated that US employers spent over half a trillion dollars ($575 billion) annually on poor employee health. Out of every dollar companies spent on healthcare, they lost $0.61 due to illness or injury.
The data is in: Appian accelerates application development by 17x and provides a 389% return on investment (ROI) with less than six months payback. These findings come from the Forrester Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Appian, which examines enterprises’ return on investment after deploying the Appian Low-Code Automation Platform.
