Portal
Appian is the only enterprise BPM Suite platform to tightly integrate rich dashboard design and portal capabilities. Appian is not designed to replace your existing portal, but rather bring the concepts of easy dashboard design and collaboration by business users into your BPM implementation. Beyond just a simple task list, Appian's portal environment is capable of personalizing and targeting content based on rules, displaying content from a variety of sources, and enabling business users to quickly modify layout with simple point-and-click techniques.



Targeted Content
Appian enhances the dashboard experience for users by also including the ability to personalize and target content. Appian can identify a specific user attribute or role and highlight select content channel areas for viewing inside a dashboard. By merging a deep understanding of a user's role inside a company with detailed process information, reports become more effective and content more meaningful for making daily process decisions. In addition, Appian can restrict access to content at a variety of levels. Whole dashboards, individual content channels, and even rows in a report can be secured to ensure only users with the right access can view select information.

Groups Server
Security and groups management can become increasingly difficult challenges as BPM environments grow. As new users enter the system or change position, attributes, groups, roles and security all must be updated to ensure proper task assignment and security access. Appian simplifies the administration of groups and roles with a dynamic rule based system. Administrators can set up a variety of group types in Appian that include extended group attributes, public and private groups, rule-based group membership, and dynamic rule-based group hierarchies. Rule-based membership and hierarchies allow groups to self administer as user and group attributes change. For example, if John Doe has taken on a new skill and been promoted to a different division, a single change to John's profile will automatically update all group memberships. He will be removed from groups and roles that no longer apply to John and automatically added to groups in which he needs to participate. John's task inbox, personal dashboards, and security access will be immediately updated to reflect John's new role. The Appian Groups Server saves countless hours for administrators and managers keeping up with daily personnel changes across an organization.