Appian Masters Process Change: liberating users from rigid models, Appian's Enterprise 5 BPM suite lets you alter the process to ease exception handling

摘要

Every organization needs to be as efficient as possible to survive. Yet all companies also must balance efficiency with the ability to adapt and evolve to meet competitive pressures, new regulations and so on. Appian Enterprise 5 can help. It differs from other business process management suites in how well it facilitates change. Like many BPM vendors, Appian has adopted BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) for its modeling environment, and it delivers a scalable process engine, a business rules environment and analytics functionality. Released in March, the Enterprise 5 suite isn't unique in exploiting Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) to deliver a rich, dynamic and user-friendly process portal, but in contrast to rivals that keep the portal and modeling environments separate, Appian has fused the two, along with the rest of the suite's functionality, to provide a dynamic user interface that can be personalized for everyone involved in processes, including senior managers. Most important, Appian Enterprise 5 eases process change rather than constraining employee actions through rigid process definitions.