Appian Announces Record Success in 2011: 219% Growth in Licenses

Appian Announces Record Success in 2011
90 New-Name Customers Drive 219% Y/Y License Order Increase for Appian BPM
Software

RESTON, Va.—January 23, 2012—Appian, the global innovator in enterprise and
cloud-based business process management
(BPM) software, today announced
record growth in 2011. 90 new-name customers selected the Appian BPM Suite
and its Mobile BPM , Cloud BPM  and Social BPM capabilities. This rapid
customer acquisition drove a 219 percent increase in Appian license orders
over 2010. Customer orders for Appian Cloud represented 37 percent of total
license orders in 2011.

Customer Growth & International Expansion

Global demand for the Appian BPM Suite continues to increase across the
public sector and in commercial industries – particularly in Financial
Services, Insurance, Healthcare and Energy. New Appian customers in 2011
included the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs, the Queensland Government,
Crawford & Company U.S., Vermont Mutual, AIG, Bard, Bupa, EDP Renewables
(Horizon Wind Energy), Husky Oil Operations, Ltd., SuperIQ, and the National
Council for Family Affairs.

To meet this demand, Appian expanded its direct global presence in 2011
through a new Australia/New Zealand regional headquarters office (in
addition to Appian’s U.S. HQ and U.K. regional HQ). The company
significantly increased its direct sales and professional services staff in
all HQ regions, and also grew its global network of certified Appian
partners across Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Western Europe and the United
States.

Product Innovation

The enterprise Information Technology (IT) landscape is at the dawn of a
radical change in response to a new set of business and consumer realities.
In response, mobile computing, social business collaboration technologies
and cloud platform delivery are rapidly gaining momentum in corporate IT.
Appian’s Mobile, Cloud and Social BPM has changed the game in BPM software.
Throughout 2011, Appian continued to lead the BPM industry with innovative
capabilities including:
·       Ubiquitous support for Apple iPhone, iPad, Google Android, and
BlackBerry devices
·       Support for full client branding of Native Mobile apps
·       Incorporation of voice and image capture from Mobile BPM interfaces
·       Marriage of unstructured social collaboration and analytics with
structured business process
·       Real-time, in-memory analytics engine supporting predictive
analytics
·       Full BPMS platform availability in the cloud
 
Industry Awards & Recognition

Appian and its customers received numerous accolades from industry
thought-leaders throughout 2011, including:
·       Global IT Analysis firm Gartner, Inc. honored Appian customers UPS
 and Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN)
 in the Gartner, Inc. 2011 BPM
Excellence Awards
·       FSO Knowledge Exchange named Appian the premier BPM vendor for
driving financial services transformation in its 2011 Excellence Awards
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·       Appian was named a finalist in the prestigious Red Herring Global
100 Awards and the Red Herring Top 100 North America Awards
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·       Appian won the KMWorld “Trend-Setting Product 2011” award
·       Appian was named a Finalist in the “Industry Star” category of the
2011 GovStar Awards
·       Appian President and CEO Matthew Calkins was named to the FedTech
Bisnow “30 Under 40” list of leading Washington, DC-area entrepreneurs

“Appian delivers a software infrastructure that meets 21st Century business
requirements: it is flexible, rapid to deploy and change, easy to use and
natively mobile,” said Matthew Calkins, President and CEO of Appian. “As the
rate of business change continues to accelerate, Appian will continue to
drive high-value BPM innovation.”
 
About Appian

Appian is the global innovator in enterprise and cloud-based business
process management (BPM) software. Appian’s combination of simplicity and
power provides everything business users need to drive transformational
process improvement – on the desktop or via mobile devices. Commercial and
government organizations around the globe use Appian to increase agility and
collaboration, and accelerate business performance. Appian empowers more
than 3 million users from large Fortune 100 companies, to the mid-market and
small businesses worldwide. Appian is headquartered in the Washington, D.C.
region, with professional services and partners around the globe. For more
information, visit www.appian.com.