Preface

The analysts at Venture Beat, Gartner, and others expect that by 2024, 80% of enterprise software development will be low-code. There are many flavors of low-code available on the market. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) tries to automate manual interaction with software and systems missing technical interfaces. Other systems allow the creation of workflows on documents.

Appian enables us to go a huge step further. Using Appian, we implement a whole end-to-end business process, not just a small step in it. We use technologies such as process automation, RPA, and Artificial Intelligence to transfer the business process into software. We relieve people from tedious and repetitive manual work and empower them to concentrate on their business challenges and decision-making.

This book enables you to be part of this movement.

This book is an exhaustive overview of how the Appian Low-Code BPM Suite enables tech-savvy professionals to rapidly automate business processes across their organization, integrating people, software bots, and data. This practical guide helps you master business application development with Appian as a beginner low-code developer. At first, you’ll learn the power of no-code with Appian Quick Apps to solve some of your most crucial business challenges. You’ll then get to grips with the building blocks of an Appian, starting with no-code and advancing to low-code, eventually transforming complex business requirements into a working enterprise-ready application.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to deploy Appian Quick Apps in minutes and successfully transform a complex business process into low-code process models, data, and UIs to deploy full-featured, enterprise-ready, process-driven, mobile-enabled apps.