McLean, VA – October 2, 2025 – Appian (NASDAQ: APPN) the leading platform for AI process automation, announced today that it is named a Leader in the The Forrester Wave™: Digital Process Automation Software, Q3 2025.

The report states that Appian best suits organizations pursuing complex, scaled digital process automation deployments. “Customers praise Appian’s rapid prototyping and flexible UI development tools that streamline application changes, alongside its data fabric and orchestration capabilities that help with integration challenges like extracting data from SAP.”

Appian also earned recognition for its data fabric that unifies data for AI, its process intelligence capabilities that ensure excellent governance, and its "superior roadmap" for enhancing AI integration, scalability, and developer productivity.

According to the report, “AI agents will drive the next wave of DPA innovation.” For businesses evaluating DPA vendors, that means looking for those that “integrate these new agents with existing DPA strengths” rather than simply demonstrate agent-building capabilities.