Business Chief US+CAN Magazine December 2017 | Page 11

APPIAN
Appian Digital Transformation
reality by reducing the non-cash cost .”
Calkins provides a critique of the commercial sector ’ s current response to the demand for digital transformation , citing the most significant problem . “ I believe many companies suffer from an excess of applications ; the typical enterprise has over a thousand , which tend to exist in separate silos and hence fail to communicate adequately . Additionally , security procedures are overly long and maintenance costs run high , making it very difficult for chief information officers to respond to customer needs .
“ We understand these problems and believe that we have the answer . On the Appian platform , if you build hundreds of applications , you still only have one environment , where you can work alongside your peers , referring to the same stack of information .”
Whilst many competing platforms expect clients to adapt to their software ’ s parameters , this situation is reversed by Appian ’ s Low-Code . “ We make it easy to express the culture of the company . You can have something functioning in around 15 minutes . Ultimately , digital transformation is
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