Appian,  provider of human-centric business process management suites (BPMS), today unveiled Appian Enterprise 5, providing organizations with the industry's most sophisticated platform for rapidly developing and deploying next-generation composite process applications. Appian Enterprise 5 is the enterprise-class BPM solution to combine best-of-breed process management with broad collaboration and strong analytics functionality, effectively bringing process to people.

Appian Enterprise 5 is a people-centric BPM suite featuring technology enhancements that bring process to people, including unique integration to Microsoft Outlook, an enhanced, third-generation AJAX-based user interface, fully integrated document management and collaboration capabilities, powerful Analytics EverywhereTM functionality, and full internationalization.

"Appian pioneered the BPM suite market with the launch of Appian Enterprise 4 and we have experienced significant growth and industry recognition based on this solid platform," said Matthew Calkins, CEO of Appian Corporation. "Appian Enterprise 5 delivers the same core process, knowledge, and analytics capabilities while delivering innovative new features that empower users to engage in collaborative, process-driven work and facilitates integration and interaction with third-party systems."

Appian Enterprise 5 introduces radically enhanced process modeling capabilities with the industry's first completely BPMN-compliant, third-generation AJAX process modeler, fully supporting the industry's "common language" for process design. Featuring the most pervasive and advanced use of AJAX in any enterprise application to date, Appian delivers a dynamic, fully featured process design tool that enables users to work in a web browser with no Java plug-ins or ActiveX controls.

Appian Enterprise 5 BPM suite features include Events-Driven Architecture, sophisticated AJAX-based process modeler and New Integration Enhancements.