Comments on: Appian 6 Released http://www.brsilver.com/2009/10/13/appian-6-released/ Bruce Silver on business process management Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:38:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: sfrancis http://www.brsilver.com/2009/10/13/appian-6-released/comment-page-1/#comment-831 sfrancis Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:05:27 +0000 http://www.brsilver.com/?p=619br#comment-831 Bruce, Are you familiar with what Appian was able to export/import in version 5? I was surprised to read that xml import/export was added in v6, this would seem to be a critical feature in much earlier releases? You referenced Lombardi Teamworks, which has, for example, been doing one-click xml export since version 3 (2003). I'm just trying to separate what is really new in v6 from what is marketing, or what is differentiated from what is "catch up" to industry norms. I agree "faster deploy" is pretty weak positioning these days- especially when you have other vendors pushing the 90-day deployment style approach, and iterative development, it just feels like squeezing a few more drops out of a stone, instead of changing the game- making possible things that were previously too hard or too complex. And that may be the case with v6 but I'm still looking for them to stake that claim. Bruce,
Are you familiar with what Appian was able to export/import in version 5? I was surprised to read that xml import/export was added in v6, this would seem to be a critical feature in much earlier releases? You referenced Lombardi Teamworks, which has, for example, been doing one-click xml export since version 3 (2003). I’m just trying to separate what is really new in v6 from what is marketing, or what is differentiated from what is “catch up” to industry norms.

I agree “faster deploy” is pretty weak positioning these days- especially when you have other vendors pushing the 90-day deployment style approach, and iterative development, it just feels like squeezing a few more drops out of a stone, instead of changing the game- making possible things that were previously too hard or too complex. And that may be the case with v6 but I’m still looking for them to stake that claim.

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