Leverage Wizards as a Design Pattern In part two of my series, entitled “getUXperienced!”, I will dive head first into UX design principles that we use in designing our award-winning Business Process Management (BPM) and Rules-based Digital Transformation solutions. Before we get into the “goodies” – just a little note about me – I’ll keep …
Leverage Negative Space (White Space) Effectively There is an old design theory called “horror vacui”; which literally translated, is Latin for a fear of emptiness. hor-ror va-cui a fear or dislike of leaving empty spaces, especially in an artistic composition.” Steve Jobs got that. And, RAN the total opposite direction! As you should too. He …
Let’s move past “drag-and-drop” and start talking about low-code application development more holistically. Drag and drop is great, but to truly build and deploy enterprise-ready applications quickly, low-code becomes as much about instant playback functionality, automated testing, debugging, compiling, and deployment, as it does about the ability to quickly make forms and workflows. Appian’s “Low-Code” …
Low-Code Features + Low-Code Mindset = Happy Customers! Read more
When Appian AppMarket was unveiled the public on October 5th, 2015 it was indeed a game changer within the BPM industry! “The Appian Platform offers the fastest time-to-solution for the creation and delivery of innovative enterprise applications that integrate enterprise data, process management, native mobility, social collaboration and portable cloud/on-premise hosting. The applications available on the …
Appian World 2015 was the best Appian World to date. As I just wrote that sentence, I chuckled to myself, because I utter that statement each and every year, right around this time! It is always great catching-up with clients, colleagues, and our partner, Appian over dinners, cocktails and events; while discussing anything and everything …
At Princeton Blue, we believe in the power of capturing Business Metrics to Measure Business Value- delivering the highest possible return on investment (ROI) with your BPM-Driven Custom Application. Great metrics are the proof in the business case for any BPM solution’s ROI, and it is a thread that runs deep in our organization, as …
Measuring Business Value & Consultant Value with Appian A-Scores Read more
With the conclusion of a fantastic Appian World 2013 – coinciding with the unveiling of a new version of Appian – Appian 7.2 – it is time to official dive into some of those new robust Appian 7.2 capabilities, focusing on core functionality from a 7.2 – Records, Reports and the Self-Assembling Interface Layer (SAIL) …
While walking in his cornfield, Kevin Costner’s character “Ray Kinsella” in the movie “Field of Dreams” hears a voice – and in our case – let’s call him “CTO Ray” – walks through “his cornfield” (the IT Development Team’s Sandbox) and hears a different voice (the Business/the Stakeholders voices) that whispers, “If you build it, …
As the big hand joins the small hand at midnight, the ball drops and comes to a rest, and the colorful paper confetti rains down from the colossal skyscrapers in New York City, 2013 is finally here! So for the next couple of months, I will painstakingly try to break last year’s habit of writing …
2013 New Year’s Resolution – Implement Mobile Business Process Management (BPM) Read more
Congratulations! Your company’s Business Process Management (BPM) initiative is officially underway and off the ground. As you roll-up your sleeves, loosen your tie and wheel your chair up toward your computer to model that very first official process model, you think to yourself, “This sure has been an agonizing six months of key stakeholder and …