Appian and MEGA Unite BPM and EA Software Tools

Appian and MEGA have decided to seamlessly join the BPA and EA capabilities of the MEGA Modeling Suite with the Appian Enterprise BPM Suite and the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS (News - Alert))-delivered Appian Anywhere platforms.

 

Under the agreement, the companies will cooperate on product integration, as well as shared and coordinated sales and marketing activities.

 

Both companies said they aim to synergize their solutions for the acceleration of enterprise success in process innovation and build on existing deployments with current joint customers such as Enterprise Rent-A-Car, AXA Investment Managers, General Dynamics, and the Department of Homeland Security.

Pat Steinmann, department manager of Request Services, Enterprise Rent-A-Car stated that they have been using both Appian and MEGA since going through rigorous product selection processes several years ago. He believes the integration of these two systems will give them an incredible amount of visibility into process performance and the potential impact of change on their production processes.

 

The companies explain that the planned product integration will allow business users to perform process design and architecture in the MEGA Modeling Suite and then export processes directly to the Appian BPM platform for execution and direct management of daily operations.

 

The alliance will also enable the users of the MEGA Modeling Suite to analyze Appian Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) data for further analysis and process optimization. Moreover, IT architects will now be able to directly discover object and process relationships from MEGA in applications built upon Appian for detailed change impact and risk analysis in managing applications powered by Appian, according to company’s sources.

 

Lucio de Risi, president and CEO of MEGA said that the combination of MEGA's powerful BPA, simulation, and optimization functionality with Appian's robust and scalable BPM platform will unite business users and analysts with enterprise, technical, and information architects in the common goal of creating adaptive, process-driven organizations.

 

MEGA is a recognized source for enterprise architecture (EA) and business process analysis (BPA) solutions. The MEGA Modeling Suite helps organizations understand and analyze their business processes, anticipate trends, and manage changes in their markets. The solution helps reduce unknowns, delays, and costs by providing a complete view of the processes of the organization and the human and IT resources that support it.

 

Appian provides a 100 percent Web-based, comprehensive BPM solution, including integrated knowledge management and real-time analytics. Appian Anywhere, a complete BPM Suite delivered via a SaaS model, delivers all the power and functionality of Appian Enterprise in a hosted environment.