Appian Compliance Manager 5.0 Ties Business Processes to Regulations, Reducing Risk and Increasing the Effectiveness of Internal

BPM-Based Solution Easily Adapts to Address Various Unique Regulatory Requirements

Vienna, VA., June 12, 2007 - Appian, the leading provider of Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), today announced the general availability of its latest BPM-based solution, Appian Compliance Manager 5, providing organizations the ability to cost-effectively automate, monitor, modify, and govern critical business processes in real time to ensure compliance with regulations and internal procedures. Built on Appian's industry leading BPM software, Appian Compliance Manager 5 is an agile next-generation composite application capable of adapting to different organizations' unique regulatory requirements.

Appian Compliance Manager 5 is designed to support organizations' compliance with financial regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley; privacy regulations such as HIPAA and the EU Data Directive; and best practices regulations such as the ISO and OSHA standards. The Appian solution efficiently manages companies' complete compliance efforts by allowing them to import and document financial data into COSO-based, industry-specific control frameworks; notify participants of key actions required to achieve compliance; and assign control tests and evaluate results. Appian Compliance Manager 5 also allows users to raise, track, and remediate issues and generate personalized dashboard-style reports -- all from a single consolidated web-based environment.

Addressing global compliance requirements, Appian Compliance Manager 5 is fully internationalized and capable of managing efforts across global, geographically dispersed organizations. As a BPM-based solution, it enables organizations to automate traditionally manual processes, which provides greater insight and the ability to build additional process applications utilizing the core framework. It also delivers increased visibility into the real-time status of an organization's compliance efforts with continually updated reporting. The solution's Active Control Monitoring capabilities enable organizations to create and monitor their internal controls in real-time to help minimize the risk of non-compliance.