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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

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Create an Appian Quick App, covers building a simple application using no code.

Chapter 2, Features and Limitations of Appian Quick Apps, contains a detailed view of Quick Apps features.

Chapter 3, Building Blocks of Appian Quick Apps, explains how Quick Apps work.

Chapter 4, The Use Cases for Appian Quick Apps, discusses how to make the most out of Quick Apps.

Chapter 5, Understanding the Business Context, explains the business background for the book's project.

Chapter 6, Understanding Business Data in Appian Projects, contains methodologies and patterns in data modeling.

Chapter 7, Understanding Business Processes in Appian Projects, explains how to analyze a business process and prepare it for automation.

Chapter 8, Understanding UX Discovery and UI in Appian Projects, shows you how to create an application experience users deserve.

Chapter 9, Modeling Business Data with Appian Records, covers converting the abstract data model into a real model.

Chapter 10, Modeling Business Processes in Appian, discusses creating automated workflows from process diagrams.

Chapter 11, Creating User Interfaces in Appian, explains how to turn wireframes into actionable forms.

Chapter 12, Task Management with Appian, covers task assignment and automated management.

Chapter 13, Reporting and Monitoring with Appian, explains designing visual dashboards using real-time data.

Chapter 14, Expressing Logic with Appian, dives deep into Appian business logic.

Chapter 15, Using Web Services with Appian Integrations, shows you how to integrate systems easily using low-code.

Chapter 16, Useful Implementation Patterns in Appian, explains how to speed up development and solve common challenges.