Business Chief US+CAN Magazine December 2017 | Page 10

INTERVIEW

“ One of our clients rolled out 40 applications in 18 months , which is so far in excess of the accepted delivery times it ’ s comparable with breaking the sound barrier ”

– Matt Calkins , Appian ’ s founder and CEO
Moore ’ s Law Diverging from industry norms might sound like a fraught position , but this was a by-product of deeper strategic drivers as opposed to a conscious choice . “ Our approach has always been to generate utility for customers – so this was a reductive exercise in elegance , driven more by business than technology . We prioritized factors that previous products had failed to prioritize . Hence , we follow a Moore ’ s Law trajectory ; every two years the cost of building something on our platform should halve , and we have been following this curve for several years . It ’ s about bringing an otherwise unrealized market into
10 December 2017