The new release marks significant enhancements in application design and governance, interface construction, integration capabilities, enterprise mobility, and more. Appian’s new Application Designer streamlines creation, navigation, and deployment of Appian applications, and capitalizes on Appian’s leadership in visual composition as opposed to complex coding. The new Appian Sites capability along with enhancements to Appian SAIL make it easy to create dynamic user interfaces tailored specifically to heads-down task workers, knowledge workers in the office and in the field, as well as customers, partners and vendors. Appian’s new Web API Dashboard allows designers to create custom Web APIs to meet their unique application needs, resulting in increased flexibility and faster integration. Mobile functionality is enhanced with offline capabilities so work does not have to stop when connectivity is disrupted. Additional updates include performance enhancements, language support, and more.
This newest version of Appian introduces and builds upon key features, including:
Designer Experience
- New Application Designer interface delivers a more intuitive design experience
- Real-time impact analysis provides visibility into design object relationships for fluid change management
- New patching methodology lets designers quickly find recently modified objects and add them to a patch
- New summary of security view enables instant security audits on applications
- Web APIs – create custom Web APIs to meet unique application needs
User Experience
- Sites – a focused interface for heads-down task workers
- Enhanced offline mobile capability allows a user to complete a process form with no network connectivity
- Tempo – Several enhancements make the familiar Appian UI more intuitive and user-friendly, easing adoption
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