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Appian 25.3: Smarter Data, Better Apps, Real AI Value

August 15, 2025
Rachel Nizinski
Appian

You've heard the promises. You've seen the hype. Every vendor is pitching "AI-powered, synergistic, next-generation" automation. But you're still asking the same question: "When do we see the results?"

The truth is, AI is only as good as the action it enables. It's not about chasing shiny objects; it's about solving real-world business problems—eliminating bottlenecks, delighting customers, and making your operations smarter and faster.

That's where we put our focus. Appian is the platform for enterprise transformation, and our latest release continues to deliver AI that works, processes that transform, and value you can measure.

Go from idea to app—with total clarity

Your business teams have great ideas, but turning them into applications takes time. The disconnect between what they need and what IT can build can be a major roadblock to innovation.

What if you could describe an application in natural language and have a working plan—complete with user personas, data models, and working screens—all generated by AI? What if you could then take that plan and generate a fully functional application in under a minute?

That's Appian Composer. Available as a preview in 25.3,* Composer transforms your requirements into working applications ready for your teams to test and refine. It’s perfect for complex use cases like modernizing legacy systems. You get the speed of AI without losing the precision your business needs.

Use Appian Composer to streamline modernization projects and more.

Innovate with AI in self-managed environments

Need the power of AI but the security and control of your own infrastructure? If you’ve felt like you’ve had to choose one or the other in the past, you don’t anymore.

In Appian 25.3, AI skills and AI copilots are now available in self-managed environments. This means more Appian users can innovate with built-in AI to accelerate development and automate work. It's powerful AI that meets your requirements.

Appian AI can be easily added to your processes—now availble in self-managed environements. 

Enterprise connectivity, delivered at scale

Your company's data is its most valuable asset, but it's trapped. Getting a complete, real-time view of your customer, your supply chain, or your finances is a constant struggle—because the data lives in dozens of different systems.

Appian's data fabric weaves all that data together into a single, secure model for your business. And that unified view doesn’t come at the cost of performance. We know your most critical applications must perform under pressure, which is why data fabric now scales automatically, keeping your apps fast and responsive with zero admin overhead.

Get the right answer, not just the right keywords

With all your data at your fingertips, you need a search function that can understand your questions, not just deliver a list of keyword hits.

Our enhanced smart search uses AI to understand intent. So when you search for an "electricity outage," you find documents that mention "power failure." It’s about getting smarter answers, faster, across your entire business.

Smart search uses AI to understand intent.

The bottom line

Appian 25.3 continues our commitment to delivering real business value with features that live up to the hype. When you partner with Appian, you can build applications faster, get more value from your data, and transform your business with AI.

 

* Preview features are fully supported; however, they do not yet reflect the feature’s full functionality or performance.