Appian Corporation: SDL Selects Appian for Digital Transformation

Appian Automates and Digitizes SDL's Core Business; Streamlining Operations,
Enhancing Integration, Restructuring Best Practices and Enabling Faster
Decision Making 

RESTON, Va., 2017-12-06 13:30 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Appian (NASDAQ:APPN), a leadingLow-Code and Business Process Managementplatform
provider, today announced SDL selected Appian to automate and digitize its core
language services business in support of the company's digital transformation
strategy. Using Appian's low-code development platform in the cloud enables SDL
to rapidly unify data from across systems and processes, and present them
through a single intuitive interface, resulting in significant improvements in
customer experience. 

SDL is a leader in global content creation, management, translation and
delivery. It offers companies a range of solutions to address complex content
management and translation challenges, including Machine Translation,
Localization, Web Content Management and provides a host of integrations with
third-party applications. Appian is being used to transform these core
processes in support of SDL's corporate growth strategy. Key goals of that
strategy are to increase the scalability of SDL business services without
increasing headcount resources, while ensuring quality of services through risk
reduction and enforcement of policy-based best practices. 

"Appian is focused on helping companies develop a business culture of
continuous digital transformation," said Paul Maguire, Vice President, Appian.
"The business landscape is changing faster than ever before and companies must
remain agile and adaptable to change. We empower customers like SDL to
streamline their operations, maximize their resources and perform faster than
ever before. With Appian, SDL are making their business operations more
intelligent by integrating analytics and automated, rules based, workflow into
formal, orchestrated processes." 

In the execution of SDL's digital transformation strategy, Appian is currently
addressing the following needs: 

  -- Digitization and automation of core processes: With Appian, SDL is
     organizing core information, minimizing human error, reducing operational
     risk, and connecting core legacy applications. This provides access to the
     right data, information and intelligence enabling employees to spend less
     time on manual processes and low value touch points.
  -- Improved Enterprise Visibility: Using Appian Records and Reports, SDL is
     providing clear visibility to participants across the whole process to
     provide greater planning and capacity management, enable information and
     insights to be shared quickly and effectively which will result in the
     ability to make informed decisions, take prompt actions and reduce costs.
  -- Increased Productivity and Efficiency: By streamlining processes and
     connecting core data, employees save time in undertaking repetitive
     low-value tasks to focus on high-value activities.
  -- Mobility and Security: Using the Appian Cloud, SDL can conduct business in
     a secure state, connecting tasks and data across multiple processes. With
     the ability to access data anywhere, anytime, Appian consolidates core
     business information for easy access across the globe.

"Appian was the right partner to help us execute our digital transformation
efforts quickly and efficiently," said Azad Ootam, Chief Transformation
Officer, SDL. "With Appian, we are leveraging a single, fully integrated
platform for automating and managing business processes to create efficiency
and streamline business operations at scale. With these improvements we have,
in a particular business process, seen improvements of up to 90% in end-to-end
execution time while enhancing the customer experience." 

About Appian
Appian provides a leading low-code software development platform that enables
organizations to rapidly develop powerful and unique applications. The
applications created on Appian's platform help companies drive digital
transformation and competitive differentiation. For more information, visit
www.appian.com. 

About SDL
SDL (LSE:SDL) is the global innovator in language translation technology,
services and content management. Over the past 25 years we've helped companies
deliver transformative business results by enabling powerful, nuanced digital
experiences with customers around the world. Are you in the know? Find out why
78 out of the top 100 global brands work with us at SDL.com and follow us on
LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. 

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