Appian Named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Business Automation Platforms 2025 Vendor Assessment

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Appian (NASDAQ: APPN), a leader in AI process automation, has been recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape Worldwide Business Automation Platforms (BAPs) 2025 Vendor Assessment. The company has integrated AI capabilities throughout its platform, enhancing business processes with features like Agent Studio, AI Document Center, and Smart Search.

The recognition highlights Appian's strategic focus on embedding AI within core business processes, offering solutions for creating AI agents and facilitating interactions between users and LLMs. The Appian Platform enables organizations to transform their critical business processes by incorporating advanced AI capabilities at every automation layer.

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• Recognition as a Leader in IDC MarketScape's Business Automation Platforms assessment
• Successfully embedded AI capabilities throughout the platform with multiple innovative features
• Strong positioning in the growing business process automation market

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MCLEAN, Va., Aug. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Appian (NASDAQ: APPN) the leading platform for AI process automation, today announced it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape Worldwide Business Automation Platforms (BAPs) 2025 Vendor Assessment (doc #US52034624, May 2025).

Appian has embedded AI into business processes for years, making them faster, smarter, and more adaptable.

According to the IDC MarketScape report, "Appian supports the development of AI agents and offers a copilot for interactivity between users and LLMs."

Appian has embedded AI into business processes for years, making them faster, smarter, and more adaptable. The latest advancements further strengthen this capability with innovations such as Agent Studio for creating and managing AI agents; AI Document Center for enterprise intelligent document processing; and Smart Search, an AI-driven semantic search feature that enables record retrieval across Appian's unified data fabric.

"The true power of AI lies in its integration within core business processes. We believe Appian's consistent focus has been on optimizing critical operations, and our recognition by IDC MarketScape as a Leader in Business Automation Platforms underscores our commitment to embedding AI with purpose and governance," said Sanat Joshi, Executive Vice President, Product & Solutions, Appian. "By enabling AI agents and intelligent automation to work in concert, we empower our customers to accelerate operations and responsibly scale AI benefits across their enterprise, driving measurable business impact."

The Appian Platform empowers organizations to orchestrate and transform their most critical business processes. By embedding advanced AI capabilities into every layer of process automation, Appian enables organizations to achieve greater agility, insight, and impact.

Appian recently sponsored an IDC InfoBrief (doc #EUR153306825, June 2025) to show how business processes and process automation platforms create a strong foundation on which organizations can identify, develop, and deploy AI capabilities, creating systems that expand the value of existing automation efforts, as well as delivering a measurable impact from AI. It also shows how organizations in banking, insurance, government, and life sciences are currently working with AI, their future AI plans and priorities, and the challenges they are working through.

Get the IDC InfoBrief, sponsored by Appian, Embedding AI into Processes to Drive Business Impact (doc #EUR153306825, June 2025).

About IDC MarketScape:

IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier's position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.

About Appian

Appian is The Process Company. We deliver a software platform that helps organizations run better processes that reduce costs, improve customer experiences, and gain a strategic edge. Committed to client success, we serve many of the world's largest companies across various industries. For more information, visit appian.com. [Nasdaq: APPN]

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FAQ

What recognition did Appian (NASDAQ: APPN) receive in 2025?

Appian was named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape Worldwide Business Automation Platforms (BAPs) 2025 Vendor Assessment.

What are the key AI features offered in Appian's platform?

Appian's platform includes Agent Studio for creating and managing AI agents, AI Document Center for intelligent document processing, and Smart Search for AI-driven semantic search across unified data fabric.

How does Appian integrate AI into business processes?

Appian embeds AI capabilities into every layer of process automation, enabling organizations to achieve greater agility and insight while allowing AI agents and intelligent automation to work together.

What industries are currently working with Appian's AI solutions?

According to the IDC InfoBrief sponsored by Appian, organizations in banking, insurance, government, and life sciences are currently working with AI solutions.