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Low-Code Application Development with Appian

You're reading from   Low-Code Application Development with Appian The practitioner's guide to high-speed business automation at enterprise scale using Appian

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800205628
Length 462 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stefan Helzle Stefan Helzle
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: No-Code with Appian Quick Apps
2. Chapter 1: Creating an Appian Quick App FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Features and Limitations of Appian Quick Apps 4. Chapter 3: Building Blocks of Appian Quick Apps 5. Chapter 4: The Use Cases for Appian Quick Apps 6. Section 2: A Software Project with Appian 7. Chapter 5: Understanding the Business Context 8. Chapter 6: Understanding Business Data in Appian Projects 9. Chapter 7: Understanding Business Processes in Appian Projects 10. Chapter 8: Understanding UX Discovery and the UI in Appian Projects 11. Section 3: Implementing Software
12. Chapter 9: Modeling Business Data with Appian Records 13. Chapter 10: Modeling Business Processes in Appian 14. Chapter 11: Creating User Interfaces in Appian 15. Chapter 12: Task Management with Appian 16. Chapter 13: Reporting and Monitoring with Appian 17. Section 4: The Code in Appian Low-Code
18. Chapter 14: Expressing Logic with Appian 19. Chapter 15: Using Web Services with Appian Integrations 20. Chapter 16: Useful Implementation Patterns in Appian 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Software development using Appian

Why still spend four chapters on software development? The reason is that the way software is developed using Appian is different. And this has a huge impact on a lot of aspects of that process.

In my experience, the most important difference is that we implement the process itself and not a tool to merely optimize some steps in that process. The idea of intelligent business process automation is to make the software run the process and have it reach out to humans only when needed.

This is a significant change in how to look at business software. Up to now, most business applications have just displayed data, allowing the user to modify some fields and write it back to the database.

Now we need to think differently. Let me give you some examples.

Business user: "I need a dashboard showing graphical reports that I can check in the morning to find out what to do."

Why not have the system assign concrete tasks to people? You have...

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