Appian
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AI-Powered Process Orchestration Across the Enterprise
How to Replace AppianOverview
Features
25 features across 13 categories
Analytics(2)
Process intelligence and monitoring capabilities for business insights
Discover process and business insights to make smarter decisions
Artificial Intelligence(9)
Build, govern, and orchestrate AI agents in a single platform to automate open-ended work
Bring the power of private AI to every step of your processes
AI-powered assistant to help business users with process work
AI-powered assistant to boost developer productivity during development
AI-powered classification of emails and documents
AI capabilities leveraging generative AI models for process automation
AI-powered extraction of information from documents
AI-powered tool to accelerate legacy application modernization with confidence
Intelligent document processing with AI capabilities
Automation(2)
Transform workflows with automation and enterprise integration
Automate repetitive tasks with robotic process automation capabilities
Case Management(1)
Dynamic case management capabilities for handling complex workflows
Data Management(2)
Cloud-based database for storing and managing application data
Unify data across systems for more powerful applications with support for multiple data sources and document record types
Development(1)
Develop processes and applications using low-code technology
Extensibility(1)
Advanced plug-in capabilities for extending platform functionality
Infrastructure(1)
Automatic scaling of platform resources to handle variable workloads
Integration(1)
Integrate with external systems and applications via APIs
Mobile(2)
Build mobile applications for process automation on mobile devices
Support for offline functionality in mobile applications
Performance(1)
Dynamic query scaling capabilities for data fabric
Security(1)
Encryption of synced record types in data fabric
User Experience(1)
Create web portals for user interaction and process engagement
Pricing
Standard
- ✓Low-Code Process and Application Development
- ✓Data Fabric (Single data source, 4M rows/record type)
- ✓Integrations
- ✓Cloud Database
- ✓Robotic Process Automation (5 bots)
- ✓Portals (One portal per app)
- ✓Mobile Apps
- ✓AI Copilot for Developers
Advanced
- ✓Low-Code Process and Application Development
- ✓Data Fabric (Multiple data sources, 20M rows/record type, Document record types, Dynamic scaling for queries)
- ✓Integrations
- ✓Cloud Database
- ✓Robotic Process Automation (25 bots)
- ✓Portals (Unlimited portals)
- ✓Mobile Apps
- ✓Offline Mobile
- ✓Process HQ
- ✓Case Management Studio
- ✓Autoscale
- ✓Advanced Plug-Ins
- ✓Agent Studio
- ✓Composer
- ✓DocCenter
- ✓AI Copilot for Developers
- ✓AI Copilot for Business Users
- ✓AI Skills with Generative AI
- ✓AI Skills with Email and Document Classification
- ✓AI Skills with Intelligent Document Extraction
Premium
- ✓Low-Code Process and Application Development
- ✓Data Fabric (Multiple data sources, 50M rows/record type, Document record types, Dynamic scaling for queries, Transparent data encryption for synced record types)
- ✓Integrations
- ✓Cloud Database
- ✓Robotic Process Automation (Unlimited bots)
- ✓Portals (Unlimited portals)
- ✓Mobile Apps
- ✓Offline Mobile
- ✓Process HQ
- ✓Case Management Studio
- ✓Autoscale
- ✓Advanced Plug-Ins
- ✓Agent Studio
- ✓Composer
- ✓DocCenter
- ✓AI Copilot for Developers
- ✓AI Copilot for Business Users
- ✓AI Skills with Generative AI
- ✓AI Skills with Email and Document Classification
- ✓AI Skills with Intelligent Document Extraction
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Buying Appian saves ~$18,480 over 3 years vs building.
Estimates based on 25 features and a BuildScore of 5/5. Actual costs vary.