Appian BPM for SharePoint

Appian BPM for SharePoint is designed to extend the capabilities of your existing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 system with the enterprise BPM capabilities offered by Appian. Appian is the leading Business Process Management tool providing a comprehensive, flexible, and easy-to-use platform for creating automated business processes over the web.

Using Appian BPM for SharePoint, users can easily track process performance, handle tasks, and escalate actions from their Microsoft SharePoint dashboard. In addition, Appian can bring process orchestration to the management of sites, folders, documents and permissions. Appian BPM for SharePoint includes native service interfaces to control common SharePoint actions in a structured process to facilitate the automatic construction and destruction of SharePoint content.

Appian BPM for SharePoint includes:

• Enterprise BPM capabilities integrated with Microsoft SharePoint 2007
• SharePoint WebParts for tracking tasks and process performance
• SharePoint action control for orchestration in the Appian BPM Suite
• Single Sign-on between Microsoft SharePoint and the Appian BPM Suite

Appian BPM for SharePoint solves common process and routing requirements across an organization by combining the structured process environment of an enterprise BPM system and the collaborative, ad-hoc nature of a SharePoint site and collaboration area. Simple workflows may be created in SharePoint, but Appian allows for complex orchestration of both system and human events and detailed tracking and Business Activity Monitoring of all actions.