2013 Year in Review: Innovating, Winning, and Powering the Modern Enterprise

As the market leader in modern business process management (BPM) software, Appian continued to blaze the innovation trail with two major product releases in 2013. Appian BPM also received product leadership ratings in key analyst reports and won industry awards. Most importantly, our product, professional services, and partners enabled our customers around the world to reach new height of business agility with successful BPM deployments.

A record number of enterprise companies across industries and government agencies chose Appianto implement dynamic case management, enable enterprise mobility, modernize procurement, streamline financial operations, improve insurance claims processing, provide pharmacovigilance, and more.While Appian BPM will always evolve with new features, our commitment to product innovation and customer success remains as the beacon to guide Appian's company strategy. Here is a highlight of key achievements and accolades in 2013:

• • January: Appian Cloud BPM received FISMA Moderate Certification
  • February: Appian named as one of ten mobile BPM vendors to watch
  • March: "The Forrester Wave: BPM Suites, Q1 2013" report ranked Appian as a leader
  • April: Appian 7.2 Release introduced Records, making enterprise data and BPM accessible on any mobile device
  • May: "The Forrester Wave: Smart Process Applications: Q2 2013" report listed Appian as leader
  • June: Appian named as one of the "Best Places to Work" and received accolades from the U.S. Homeland Security as one of "The Rising 10 of 2013 - Tech Innovators and Game Changers"
  • July: Appian Cloud Achieved SOC2 Certification for security, availability, and confidentiality control
  • August:Opened a new office in Frankfurt andBayern LB, one of the largest banks in German, deployed Appian BPM to manage the procurement process with vendors
  • September: KMWorld honored Appian for "Trend-Setting Product 2013"
  • October: Appian 7.3 release extended its intelligent BPM capabilities as a modern work platform
  • November: Crawford's Appian-based CAT-Connection application won the 2013 Forrester Groundswell Award in the "Mobility ñ Business to Employee" category
  • December: Gartner, Inc. gave Appian the highest and only "Strong Positive" rating in the new MarketScope Report on BPM Platform-as-a-Service

Our customers, partners, and employees are the driving forces behind Appian's success. Thank you for your support and commitment. We look forward to having a fantastic 2014 and many more successful years to come. Be sure to register and join us at Appian World 2014, thepremier BPM conference, to learn how Appian powers the modern enterprise and can help transform your organization.

Cheers to your success,

Cindy Cheng

Director of Product Marketing

Cindy Cheng