Low-Code Application Development with Appian by Stefan Helzle

Go from no-code to low-code and translate your business requirements into full-fledged enterprise-ready applications

Key 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 Appian

Book Description

This 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 constants

Who this book is for

This 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.