2026 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (BOAT)
Appian is a Leader in BOAT
As enterprises move from task automation to agentic orchestration, finding the right platform to govern your digital workforce is a critical decision.
The 2026 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (BOAT) report evaluates 20 vendors across common use cases and critical capabilities to help organizations assess which solutions best fit their needs.
Appian is proud to be recognized among the top three vendors across all use cases, receiving the #1 placement for the Deterministic Workflow Automation and Platform Consolidation Use Cases.
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- Insights about the 10 capabilities for BOAT
- An analysis of how BOAT vendors were evaluated across 5 common use cases
- BOAT market trends and how to prepare your organization for agentic automation
Access your complimentary report to see why Appian was recognized and equip your team with analyst insights to govern and scale AI.
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Gartner, 2026 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (BOAT), by Saikat Ray, Art Villa, Tushar Srivastava, Sachin Joshi, Adam Briggs, Mike Warren, 15 September 2026.
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