Company: APPN
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001441683-25-000017
Chunk: 9

Company: APPIAN CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 9
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 innovate, and scale our platform and professional services;

•Our ability to effectively manage or sustain our growth and to achieve profitability;

•Potential acquisitions and integration of complementary businesses and technologies; 

•Our ability to maintain, or strengthen awareness of, our brand; 

•Perceived or actual problems with the integrity, reliability, quality, or compatibility of our platform, including unscheduled downtime or outages; 

•The anticipated expansion of the usage of partners to perform professional services;

•General macroeconomic conditions, including rising interest rates and inflation, slower growth or recession, and geopolitical turmoil;

•Future revenue, hiring plans, expenses, capital expenditures, capital requirements, and stock performance; 

•Our ability to attract and retain qualified employees and key personnel and manage our overall headcount; 

•The expected benefits to our clients and potential clients of our product and service offerings;

•The timing of revenue recognition under license and cloud arrangements; 

•Our expectation that subscriptions revenue as a percentage of total revenue will continue to increase; 

•Our expectation that professional services as a percentage of total revenue will continue to decrease;

•Our backlog of license, maintenance, cloud, and services agreements and the timing of future cash receipts from committed license and cloud arrangements; 

•Our expectation that cost of revenue, sales and marketing expenses, research and development expenses, and general and administrative expenses will continue to increase in absolute dollar values;

•The fluctuation of subscriptions gross margin and professional services gross margin over time;

•Our ability to stay abreast of new or modified laws and regulations that currently apply or become applicable to our business both in the United States and internationally; 

•Our ability to collect on the judgment against Pegasystems or the judgment preservation insurance;

•Our ability to maintain, protect, and enhance our intellectual property; and 

•Costs associated with defending intellectual property infringement and other claims. 

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These statements represent the beliefs and assumptions of our management based on information currently available to us. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other important factors that could cause actual results and the timing of certain events to differ materially from future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those discussed in the section titled “Risk Factors” included under Part I, Item 1A. Furthermore, such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this report. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events