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

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800205628

Length 462 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Appian

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Stefan Helzle

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

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

Chapter 7: Understanding Business Processes in Appian Projects

With a solid data model, you will now learn how to discover and analyze the business processes in Tarence Limited. Processes are the second building block in your application's foundation. Asking the right questions while following some well-known methodologies is the key to success.

The importance of thinking in processes, as part of a digital transformation initiative, is crucial. With Appian, you deal with a business process management platform. You will want the software to conduct the process with the help of humans, which is generally the opposite of humans who conduct the process with the help of some software tools. In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

Useful methodologies: Simplifying a challenging process
As-is process: Capturing the process as currently conducted
Software-driven processes: Automating your processes
Task-driven processes: Making peoples' strengths...