Low-Code Application Development with Appian

Go from no-code to low-code and translate your business requirements into full-fledged enterprise-ready applications

Key Features
Digitize and automate your business processes quickly using Appian's powerful low-code functionalitiesUnderstand enterprise data models and turn them into actionable Appian RecordsUse declarative code-style UI building to design intuitive UIs and reusable components in Appian
Book Description

This book is an exhaustive overview of how the Appian Low-Code BPM Suite enables tech-savvy professionals to rapidly automate business processes across their organization, integrating people, software bots, and data. This is crucial as 80% of all software development is expected to be carried out in low code by 2024.

This practical guide helps you master business application development with Appian as a beginner low-code developer. You'll learn to automate business processes using Appian low-code, records, processes, and expressions quickly and on an enterprise scale. In a fictional development project, guided by step-by-step explanations of the concepts and practical examples, this book will empower you to transform complex business processes into software.

At first, you'll learn the power of no-code with Appian Quick Apps to solve some of your most crucial business challenges. You'll then get to grips with the building blocks of an Appian, starting with no-code and advancing to low-code, eventually transforming complex business requirements into a working enterprise-ready application.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to deploy Appian Quick Apps in minutes and successfully transform a complex business process into low-code process models, data, and UIs to deploy full-featured, enterprise-ready, process-driven, mobile-enabled apps.

What you will learn
Use Appian Quick Apps to solve the most urgent business challengesLeverage Appian's low-code functionalities to enable faster digital innovation in your organizationModel business data, Appian records, and processesPerform UX discovery and UI building in AppianConnect to other systems with Appian Integrations and Web APIsWork with Appian expressions, data querying, and constants
Who this book is for

This book empowers software developers and tech-savvy business users with a new tool that'll help them increase efficiency by a huge margin and speed up the delivery of new features to meet the demands of business departments. Business users with a maker's attitude finally have the chance to develop their own business applications, as low-code drastically reduces the complexity of traditional software development. Prior experience with automation solutions and low-code programming is needed to help you get the most out of this book.