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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
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Section 3: Implementing Software
17
Section 4: The Code in Appian Low-Code

Case management

In recent years, some colleagues and I have developed a set of theses that we use to direct attention to certain aspects of typical process improvement scenarios. These theses are formulated aggressively to challenge the existing ways of thinking about business processes, process automation, and implementation in Appian.

The theses are not laws, but guidelines. You can use them to initiate discussions and adapt them carefully to your actual requirements. All the theses give tips for business analysis. Some also provide concrete hints for the implementation in Appian.

Tip

These theses are meant to make people reconsider their own points of view. Do your own thinking before using them in a workshop. You must be able to explain the thesis and answer any questions that arise.

Basic principles

Let's understand the basic principles for case management:

  • A business process is a concrete description of the transformation of an input to an output.
  • ...