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Low-Code Application Development with Appian

By : Stefan Helzle
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Low-Code Application Development with Appian

By: Stefan Helzle

Overview of this book

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 is crucial as 80% of all software development is expected to be carried out in low code by 2024. This practical guide helps you master business application development with Appian as a beginner low-code developer. You'll learn to automate business processes using Appian low-code, records, processes, and expressions quickly and on an enterprise scale. In a fictional development project, guided by step-by-step explanations of the concepts and practical examples, this book will empower you to transform complex business processes into software. 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.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: No-Code with Appian Quick Apps
11
Section 3: Implementing Software
17
Section 4: The Code in Appian Low-Code

Section 3: Implementing Software

With all the preparation in the last four chapters completed, it is time to implement your application using Appian. This part of the book heavily relies on the outcomes of Section 2. Make sure you have your data model, business processes, and wireframes to hand.

Did you try to challenge the way you think about what that application in Appian can do for you and your organization?

You learned the important object types in Chapter 3, Building Blocks of Appian Quick Apps, in which we analyzed the objects Appian creates for a Quick App. I’m now going to walk you through creating an application with all the required objects from scratch.

You’ll learn how to create Appian Records from your business data model, turn your business process models into executable technical processes, and turn your wireframes into real working user interfaces. The application object you will create first is the container for all subsequent objects.

This...