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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

Solution patterns

Solution patterns describe abstract concepts for implementing specific requirements and have more of a recommendation than a rule. I want to focus on a few patterns that, I think, are especially important. Appian also provides a library of patterns in the Appian Playbook at the following link:

https://community.appian.com/w/the-appian-playbook/tags/design_2D00_patterns

Process versus case management

Case management in its most basic form means that a user only reacts with an ad hoc activity on external triggers. The user must know all the possible activities and conditions. We already discussed some aspects of case management in Chapter 7, Understanding Business Processes in Appian Projects.

On the other hand, there is a fully automated sequential process with just some user interaction for making decisions or approvals.

The reality is somewhere in between. My typical approach is to try to get as much structure as possible into a process, and only add...