Company: APPN
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001441683-25-000017
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Company: APPIAN CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-19
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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Item 1. Business.

Overview

Appian Corporation (together with its subsidiaries, “Appian,” “the Company,” “we,” or “our”) is The Process Company. We deliver a software platform that helps organizations run better processes that reduce costs, improve customer experiences, and gain a strategic edge. Committed to client success, we serve many of the world’s largest companies across industries.

We believe processes define each organization. Processes are how they operate, deliver value, and interact with their customers. Nothing is more transformative for an organization than improving their processes. Appian has both the platform and the expertise to enable enterprise transformation. 

The Appian Platform

Appian is a leading platform for process orchestration, automation, and intelligence. Our unified platform provides everything an organization needs to design, automate, and optimize critical processes. It enables continuous adaptation, allowing organizations to thrive in changing environments.

Core Capabilities 

Appian provides capabilities to tackle any process challenge. Appian tightly integrates data fabric; robotic process automation, or RPA; intelligent document processing, or IDP; generative artificial intelligence, or generative AI; artificial intelligence agents, or AI agents; low-code design; application programming interfaces, or APIs; business rules; and process intelligence capabilities in a single platform. These capabilities are unified and scalable, meeting enterprise demands and easy to change as requirements evolve. 

•Process Orchestration: The Appian platform coordinates tasks between AI, automation, and humans to ensure processes run efficiently and intelligently. RPA enables customers to build bots with low-code to automate repetitive manual tasks. Appian AI agents extract data, process documents, and initiate processes at scale. API integration easily connects systems with low-code design tools and hundreds of prebuilt connections.

•Data Fabric: Appian’s data fabric is an integrated data layer that unifies data across systems without requiring companies to migrate their data. Appian empowers users to explore data in real-time, build reports, and get AI-powered insights for smarter decision-making. Our patented data fabric technology supports both analytical and transactional workloads, which allows users to build applications that create and update enterprise data. It also includes row-level security rules to enforce access controls at every level. Our data fabric functionality powers and secures our AI offering.

•Process Intelligence: Process intelligence allows users to gain deep insights into process performance through Appian’s Process HQ. It also preps data for process mining with just a few clicks, even across multiple sources. Companies can use AI to monitor processes,