Low-Code Application Development with Appian
Stefan Helzle
- 462 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Low-Code Application Development with Appian
Stefan Helzle
About This Book
Go from no-code to low-code and translate your business requirements into full-fledged enterprise-ready applicationsKey Features⢠Digitize and automate your business processes quickly using Appian's powerful low-code functionalities⢠Understand enterprise data models and turn them into actionable Appian Records⢠Use declarative code-style UI building to design intuitive UIs and reusable components in AppianBook DescriptionThis book is an exhaustive overview of how the Appian Low-Code BPM Suite enables tech-savvy professionals to rapidly automate business processes across their organization, integrating people, software bots, and data. This is crucial as 80% of all software development is expected to be carried out in low code by 2024. This practical guide helps you master business application development with Appian as a beginner low-code developer. You'll learn to automate business processes using Appian low-code, records, processes, and expressions quickly and on an enterprise scale. In a fictional development project, guided by step-by-step explanations of the concepts and practical examples, this book will empower you to transform complex business processes into software. At first, you'll learn the power of no-code with Appian Quick Apps to solve some of your most crucial business challenges. You'll then get to grips with the building blocks of an Appian, starting with no-code and advancing to low-code, eventually transforming complex business requirements into a working enterprise-ready application. By the end of this book, you'll be able to deploy Appian Quick Apps in minutes and successfully transform a complex business process into low-code process models, data, and UIs to deploy full-featured, enterprise-ready, process-driven, mobile-enabled apps.What you will learn⢠Use Appian Quick Apps to solve the most urgent business challenges⢠Leverage Appian's low-code functionalities to enable faster digital innovation in your organization⢠Model business data, Appian records, and processes⢠Perform UX discovery and UI building in Appian⢠Connect to other systems with Appian Integrations and Web APIs⢠Work with Appian expressions, data querying, and constantsWho this book is forThis book empowers software developers and tech-savvy business users with a new tool that'll help them increase efficiency by a huge margin and speed up the delivery of new features to meet the demands of business departments. Business users with a maker's attitude finally have the chance to develop their own business applications, as low-code drastically reduces the complexity of traditional software development. Prior experience with automation solutions and low-code programming is needed to help you get the most out of this book.
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Section 1: No-Code with Appian Quick Apps
- Chapter 1, Create an Appian Quick App
- Chapter 2, Features and Limitations of Appian Quick Apps
- Chapter 3, Building Blocks of Appian Quick Apps
- Chapter 4, The Use Cases for Appian Quick Apps
Chapter 1: Creating an Appian Quick App
- Login and first contact with Appian
- Naming your Quick App
- Defining case data
- Setting permissions and generating an app
- Testing your app
Login and first contact with Appian
- Enter the web address of your Appian environment. If you use the Community Edition, you will need to accept the license agreement.
- Once you are done with that, you will get the login screen. There, you will need to enter your credentials and click Sign In.
- Appian Community Edition greets you with a nice screen with information on how to learn more about the Appian platform, as illustrated in the following screenshot:
- From the waffle menu at the top right of the screen, select Quick Apps Designer, as illustrated in...