Develop powerful and intuitive business applications rapidly using Appian's low-code functionalities that enable faster digital innovation in your organization
Key Features
- Digitalize and automate your business processes quickly using Appian's powerful low-code functionalities
- Understand enterprise data models and turn them into actionable Appian Records
- Develop intuitive user interfaces with declarative code-style UI development and reusable components in Appian
Book Description
This book is a comprehensive guide to understanding how the Appian Low-Code BPM Suite can enable you to rapidly automate business processes across your organization, integrating people, software bots, and data. This is crucial as 80% of all software development is expected to be low code by 2023.
The book will help you to master business application development with Appian if you're just getting started as a low-code developer. You'll learn how to adopt a hands-on approach to Appian low-code, records, processes, and expressions, empowering you to automate your business in no time.
Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and real live project experiences, this book will enable you to transform a complex business process into software. You'll start by learning the power of no-code with Appian Quick Apps to solve some of your most crucial business challenges. Next, you'll learn the building blocks of an Appian application, go from no-code to low-code, and translate your business requirements into a complete enterprise-ready application.
By the end of this book, you'll be able to deliver Appian Quick Apps in minutes and implement enterprise-ready, mobile-enabled applications in just a few weeks.
What you will learn
- Understand how to use Appian Quick Apps to solve the most urgent business challenges
- Go from no-code to low-code and translate your business requirements into a full-fledged enterprise-ready application
- Discover how to model business data, Appian Records, and processes
- Perform UX discovery and UI building in Appian
- Connect to other systems with Appian Integrations and Web APIs
- Work with Appian expressions, data querying, and constants
Who This Book Is For
This book is for business users, developers, and IT leaders who want to overcome business challenges and deliver enterprise solutions rapidly to gain a competitive advantage without writing thousands of lines of code. Experience with automation solutions and low-code programming is required to help you get the most out of this book.
Table of Contents
- Create an Appian Quick App
- Features and Limitations of Appian Quick Apps
- Building Blocks of Appian Quick Apps
- The Use Cases for Appian Quick Apps
- Understanding the Business Context
- Understanding Business Data in Appian Projects
- Understanding Business Processes in Appian Projects
- Understanding UX Discovery and UI in Appian Projects
- Modeling Business Data with Appian Records
- Modeling Business Processes in Appian
- Creating User Interfaces in Appian
- Task Management with Appian
- Reporting and Monitoring with Appian
- Expressing Logic with Appian
- Using Web Services with Appian Integrations
- Useful Implementation Patterns in Appian
