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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

The people at Tarence Limited

The board of management at Tarence Limited has decided to use Appian for all future process automation projects. This is a strategic decision.

However, the people are what powers a company. For a successful Appian project, we need to understand their needs and motivations. Let us now describe the key stakeholders in our project. With this at hand, we can later design the application to perfectly fit their real needs.

Christine – Business Owner

Figure 5.1 – Business owner Christine

The company has grown like crazy in the recent years. However, some processes, conducted by an ever-increasing workforce of clerks, have shown increasing signs of bad efficiency and a lack of transparency. The board of management commissioned Christine, the COO of Tarence Limited, to start a business process automation initiative. As a dedicated supporter of processes and KPI-based management, she decided to go with Appian.

Paul...