Service Oriented Architecture – SOA

The premier event for Appian customers, partners, and the business process management (BPM) community is coming up. If you are new to BPM and want to learn how to leverage the power of modern technology to improve business processes and increase organizational effectiveness, this is the event for you. Appian World 2013 will take place from April 29th to May 1st at the historic Ronald Reagan Building in the US Capitol, Washington DC.

 
Industry visionaries and analysts will share insights on how disruptive technologies like social software, mobile, and cloud will change the future of work. Executives from innovative companies across industries will share their journey and success stories on transforming the way they work and do business. In addition, Appian World will feature a dedicated track for practitioners who are Starting the Journey in BPM. This track is ideal for business analysts, project managers, department leads, consultants, and anyone who is passionate about improving processes and performance.

Here’s a highlight of Starting the Journey sessions at Appian World:

• Worksocial Comes to Life - worksocial combines BPM, collaborative social features, and native mobile access to extend participation to all users in the enterprise. This presentation will showcase a number of functional applications built on Appian. See how to apply worksocial across a variety of scenarios, functions, and departments so people can work better, together.
• Getting Started with BPM: Tips from a Pro –  The first steps of a BPM journey can be the hardest – and the most important in setting the direction for a high-quality, high-value BPM program. Learn the tips from a seasoned BPM executive at PPD Inc, who has launched successful programs at multiple organizations.
•  Pushing Process to the Edge of the Enterprise – Pushing process to the edge to incorporate customers and partners has long been a goal of BPM. With social and mobile technology, that goal is now being realized. Learn how Punch Taverns, a leading UK-based franchise organization, uses worksocial to optimize relationships and performance “at the edge.”
• The Lifecycle of Intelligent BPM – In the social and information age, it’s simply not enough to design, execute, manage, and optimize business processes. Intelligence and analytics need to be part of every lifecycle to maximize the value and benefits of your application. Learn how to infuse intelligence to business applications to gather, measure, and optimize work in a social world from Michael zur Muehlen of the Stevens Institute of Technology

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about business process management and how worksocial can fundamentally change the way you work. Register for Appian World 2013 today and invite your colleagues to start the journey together.

Cindy Cheng

2013 will be the year that employees begin to use mobile devices more than PCs to get work done (Forrester, “Tablets Will Rule the Future Personal Computing Landscape”, April 2012). To get ahead of this wave, it’s vital that any new application deployed to users be fully mobile-enabled. Appian provides a mobile enterprise platform for knowledge workers to access key data, reports, tasks and actions from their mobile device so they can do real work and see timely results on the go.

Recognizing the need to go mobile is easy; however, understanding how to implement that vision is not always immediately obvious. To help customers understand how a mobile-enabled application looks and behaves, Appian has released a new Reference Application focused around the mobile user.

The new example Reference Application focuses on four fictitious users who collaborate to sell products and deliver them to customers. These users perform all their duties via their mobile devices and are connected to each other and their tasks wherever they go. Through the business News feed on their mobile device, the users stay informed about the progress of customers and orders. Using mobile Actions and Tasks, they can collaborate to move orders from inception to delivery.

In addition to providing an example of how a fully mobile-enabled application behaves, the Reference Application also demonstrates Appian best practices around model design, data structures, user interface organization, and more.

The new mobile Reference Application is immediately available from the Software section of Appian Forum. Refer to the release notes for more information about importing and using the Reference Application.

- Jed Fonner, Appian Architect

Appian’s government customers are at the fore-front of driving real business value by modernizing processes for a mobile world. Organization’s like the Dept. of Veterans Affairs are using our Mobile BPM to improve agency efficiency and maximize constituent communication and service delivery. Mobile presents issues, to be sure (many of which Appian customers can side-step through our unique and highly-secure “write once, deploy anywhere” architecture), but the benefits far outweigh the risks.

As your agency grapples with going mobile, hear the latest views and get involved with the discussion at the third annual Federal Mobile Computing Summit and Technology Showcase. Appian is a proud sponsor of the event, happening tomorrow at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C.

The landmark Digital Government Strategy changed the face of Federal Mobility. How are the recent milestone deliverables in BYOD, MDM, Security & APIs going to affect your agency? Look for these and the following topics to be addressed over the course of the day:

• Developing Government-Wide Best Practices, Guidance and Standards
• Evaluation and Streamlining of Security and Privacy Processes (Mobile FEDRAMP)
• Government-Wide Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Guidance and Policies
• Improving Priority Customer-Facing Services for Mobile Use
• Making Existing High-Value Data and Content Available through Web APIs
• Setting up Government-Wide Mobile Device Management (MDM) Platform
• Promotion of Safe and Secure Adoption of New Technologies

Dr. Rick Holgate and Tom Suder will serve as Co-Chairs of the Federal Mobile Computing Summit and Technology Showcase, which is free to government participants. Register online at the link above, or send an email inquiry to info@mobilefeds.com.

We hope to see you there!

-Ben Farrell, Director, Corporate Communications