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The latest news from Appian Corporation, the BPM (Business Process Management) pure-play expert.

• Appian and Valion Consulting AG Form Strategic Partnership to Deliver BPM Solutions Across Switzerland
  Appian, an innovative global provider of business process management (BPM) technology, and Valion Consulting AG, a leading Swiss consulting company in the field of performance and process management, today announced they have entered into a strategic partnership.

  The Appian and Valion Consulting partnership will continue the companies' penetration into the Swiss marketplace and offer a unique and complete BPM solution to businesses. By incorporating both collaboration and business intelligence in the context of BPM, the Appian solution will provide Valion Consulting with a distinct advantage for its existing clients as well as prospective business.

  Valion Consulting is already working with Swiss enterprises, particularly those in the transportation, logistics, banking and insurance industries, that are looking for agility and innovation in their business processes to build up and defend their competitive advantage. This existing experience, coupled with the innovative Appian BPM suite, will make process improvement a reality for all employees in an organisation.

  Valion Consulting Partner Marco Brogini, Ph.D.: "The partnership with Appian has a strong strategic importance for Valion Consulting. Appian's BPM suite fits extremely well in our service portfolio because of its ease of use and strong team-based and collaborative nature. We found that by working together, we will truly be able to help Swiss enterprises bridge the gap between business and IT. This flexibility offered by Appian provides a superior platform for us to deliver new process-driven solutions, while also increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of existing customer solutions."

  Appian Managing Director, EMEA, Justin Thomas: "Valion Consulting has vast experience in the BPM market. Together, Appian and Valion Consulting will empower Swiss organisations to simplify process innovation, delivering real-time visibility and control to improve the critical processes that determine business performance. Appian is looking forward to building a strong, long-term partnership with Valion Consulting to make process improvement a reality for Swiss enterprises."

• Appian and Cape Clear Announce Partnership
  Appian, an innovative global provider of business process management (BPM) technology, announces a new alliance with Cape Clear Software, the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Platform leader. The combination enables the design, development and deployment of end-to-end business processes spanning system-to-system integration and service orchestration with Cape Clear's ESB platform, and advanced human-facing process management delivered by Appian's comprehensive BPM suite, Appian Enterprise.

  Customers can now enjoy the benefits of an integrated BPM and ESB environment that facilitates rapid time to solution, process simplification and less complex integration to existing systems. By bridging the gap between human interactions and system interactions, users of the combined solution will significantly improve their ability to change and modify enterprise process applications while leveraging the benefits of service oriented architecture (SOA).

  Appian and Cape Clear have already engaged in multiple opportunities across a variety of industries in North America. Future plans will focus on leveraging implementation and support best practices, embedded components, and other new features that extend the capabilities of both products.

  "Clients are increasingly looking to bring together SOA and BPM in order to connect IT assets with the processes that ultimately consume them," commented Ian Charlesworth, principal analyst at Ovum. "This partnership plays directly to this market demand."

  "SOA plus BPM is a compelling combination for enterprises, but although it is an easy equation to write down, in practice it is not easy to bring the value of these two initiatives together," says Neil Ward-Dutton, research director at analyst firm Macehiter Ward-Dutton. "This partnership leverages the strengths of two best-of-breed technology providers to help customers address the opportunities and challenges that come from pursuing BPM and SOA together."

  "With this partnership, Cape Clear's ESB is blazing a trail in on-demand, system-to-system integration and process management," said Rich Novak, vice president worldwide sales and service at Cape Clear. "Our customers are coming to us with an increasing set of use cases where their integrations and services need to interact with people in diverse and rich ways. We can now offer them sophisticated support for human workflows via this partnership with Appian. This is further evidence of the central role played by the ESB in all aspects of business integration and automation."

  "This partnership enables organizations to align their SOA and BPM objectives from the project start," commented Samir Gulati, vice president, marketing at Appian. "Customers will realize a better long-term return on both investments."

  For more information about Appian Enterprise, please visit http://www.appian.com/product.jsp. For more information on Cape Clear's leading ESB software, please visit http://www.capeclear.com/products/overview.shtml or contact sales at sales@capeclear.com. To download a copy of the Cape Clear ESB, please visit http://www.capeclear.com/download/.

• Appian Enterprise Delivers Ongoing Process Excellence to Customers
  Simplicity and scalability - two words that differentiate Appian Enterprise, the business process management (BPM) suite from Appian, an innovative global provider of BPM technology. With enhancements that have been integrated into the product over the past year culminating in today's new release, as well as new features that will be available in upcoming releases, Appian continues to deliver the most compelling BPM solutions to the market, simplifying business innovation through flexible, comprehensive and easy-to-use technology.

  On the heels of a stellar third quarter where Appian generated the second-highest order volume in the company's history, today's new release of Appian Enterprise provides customers with multiple new enhancements that simplify process collaboration and innovation between business and IT, allowing all users across the organization to be part of the process of achieving corporate goals. New enhancements optimize the product's performance under high load; reduce memory utilization; improve manageability; improve the product's already impressive performance; and add benchmarking components.

  Forrester Analyst Colin Teubner discussed Appian's BPM suite in The Forrester Wave: Human-Centric BPM For Java Platforms, Q3 2007. His report stated: "Appian Enterprise is designed for simplicity, and it shows. [The product] is the easiest to use for building processes that pull together human work, analytics, and collaboration tools. It also has extremely powerful methods for administering massive numbers of end users."

  Earlier this year, Appian incorporated new user-friendly features into Appian Enterprise that included an improved AJAX-powered interface designer and rules creator, real-time analytics, and desktop and Microsoft Office integration -- all designed to simplify and make BPM more accessible to everyone within the organization.

  As the challenges and requirements encountered by businesses worldwide continue to evolve, so too does Appian Enterprise, growing with customers to utilize process as a way to empower the business. Simplicity and scalability will continue to be key themes for the product, and development will focus on making Appian Enterprise easier to use, develop and manage, as well as allowing for better utilization of system resources so the solution is lighter and quicker in Web browsers and has the ability to support the most demanding process environments.

  In addition, Appian Enterprise is already available to customers as a subscription-based model and hosted platform; in 2008, Appian will enable a complete software-as-a-service market offering, including trial licenses, turn-key enablement of environments and a complete solution marketplace with pre-built process applications.

  "Appian is proud of how we work with our customers to allow them to embrace process as a tool for competitive advantage," said Ali Alavi, Appian vice president of software development. "Over the past several years, as Appian has achieved enormous successes in winning new business in the enterprise BPM market, Appian Enterprise continues to meet the demands of 21st century businesses. We will continue to deliver the industry's easiest to use, develop and manage BPM suite to the market to truly empower the business users of today as well as tomorrow."

  For more information about Appian Enterprise, please visit http://www.appian.com/product.jsp.

• Appian and TeamCatapult Partner to Empower U.S. Federal Government to Maximize BPM Investments
  Appian, an innovative global provider of business process management (BPM) technology, and TeamCatapult, a managem