Appian, a leading provider of human-centric business process management suites (BPMS), has unveiled Appian Enterprise 5, providing organizations with the industry's most sophisticated platform for rapidly developing and deploying next-generation composite process applications. The latest evolution of Appian's award-winning BPM suite, Appian Enterprise 5 is the industry's only enterprise-class BPM solution to combine best-of-breed process management with broad collaboration and strong analytics functionality, effectively bringing process to people.

According to Gartner's Position on Business Process Management 2006 report, "By 2009, 20 percent of business processes of Global 2000 companies will be supported on BPMSs (0.7 probability). These processes will predominately involve a considerable amount of human work that differentiates the company from its competitors and that is poorly supported by established IT systems."

Appian Enterprise 5 is the industry's the most advanced people-centric BPM suite featuring technology enhancements that bring process to people, including unique integration to Microsoft Outlook, an enhanced, third-generation AJAX-based user interface, fully integrated document management and collaboration capabilities, powerful Analytics Everywherefunctionality, and full internationalization.

"This innovative product has the widest breadth of functionality among the suites we evaluated, by design," said Connie Moore, author of The Forrester Wave: Human-Centric Business Process Management Suites, Q1 2006, Forrester Research Inc. February 24th, 2006. "Appian endeavors to provide all the tools necessary to support all types of people-intensive processes. It delivers diverse features, including DM, team collaboration, and a rich, Web-based user environment."

"Appian pioneered the BPM suite market with the launch of Appian Enterprise 4 and we have experienced significant growth and industry recognition based on this solid platform," said Matthew Calkins, CEO of Appian Corporation. "Appian Enterprise 5 delivers the same core process, knowledge, and analytics capabilities while delivering innovative new features that empower users to engage in collaborative, process-driven work and facilitates integration and interaction with third-party systems."

Appian Enterprise 5 introduces radically enhanced process modeling capabilities with the industry's first completely BPMN-compliant, third-generation AJAX process modeler, fully supporting the industry's "common language" for process design. Featuring the most pervasive and advanced use of AJAX in any enterprise application to date, Appian delivers a dynamic, fully featured process design tool that enables users to work in a web browser with no Java plug-ins or ActiveX controls.