Appian Scalability
Cloud deployment of the solution is highly scalable.
My clients are typically enterprise-sized businesses. They can have various sizes of users up to 20,000 VMC.
I rate the scalability of Appian a nine out of ten.
View full review »The way Appian manages its software makes it directly scalable to new systems. Especially with the cloud distribution, Appian is going to integrate with any new hardware architecture that comes out, and you don't have to do any updates for code. If you're on the cloud, then deploying it is very easy, and scaling that outwards for capacity is also very easy. One limiter that we had for scalability was on our side. Our on-prem data had to feed through that, and there were scalability issues with the demand on the server, but that was more on our side, not on Appian's side.
In terms of its usage, right now, we are exclusively looking at it from our analytics and intelligence standpoint, and we don't have anybody dedicated to Appian. We have more teams who focus on low code efforts and are playing around with it to figure out the capabilities and the standards that we want to work with it. We are building out the integrations that we need to scale it up. So, there is nobody fully dedicated to it, but there are definitely people playing around with it. There are only a handful of people right now. There are probably four to five at most at any given time.
We don't have a plan in place to increase its usage because we don't know. We haven't really found an incredible use case where we can deploy it. Once we set up the infrastructure and get business buy-in with a few demos, we can talk about scaling.
View full review »It's scalable.
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We have a good number of developers in our company. We have around 75 Appian developers, and overall, if we talk about the Appian's practice, it's around 100 people.
We are dealing with a couple of different Canadian clients.
It can scale quite well.
View full review »Since it is on the cloud, it is easy to scale.
There are around 200 end users using this in our company. The usage depends on the end user.
Appian is scalable, especially from an integration standpoint. It offers low-code integration capabilities, eliminating the need for external integrators.
It comes with many components and connectors that facilitate system integrations.
Appian is a scalable solution. However, we have to be a bit cautious if large volumes of data are being exchanged and if there are any use cases to transform the data in between.
I rate Appian a six out of ten for scalability.
I'd rate the scalability ten out of ten. It's excellent.
We have the maximum license, and we do not plan to increase usage as we do not have plans to increase our workforce.
View full review »The solution is scalable when compared with the support of the infrastructure. It has proven to be scalable as far as the authentication time has been procured.
View full review »I experienced a few issues in Appian scalability, particularly in the data or records area, so it's an eight out of ten.
View full review »It is scalable. You can horizontally scale the servers to add more nodes and have a clustered and high-availability environment.
Currently, we have about 20,000 users in the company. For maintenance, we have a big team of about 50 people, but they don't maintain just this environment. There are a couple of other environments that they maintain.
View full review »There are a variety of customers using the solution. We're a consultant group and have customers across many sectors. It's hard to quantify how many people are using it.
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reviewer1639440
CTO Digital Division at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's scalable. It can scale horizontally and vertically. Some features like the portals can be implemented on Kubernetes, which means that they are scalable to implement.
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Tarek Hasan
CIO at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
It is definitely a scalable tool. I would rate its scalability not less than eight and a half out of ten.
Even with an on-premise implementation, the scalability is still high, so it is easy to scale up.
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reviewer1954995
Intelligent Automation Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
I have not yet experienced the requirement for scalability.
We have 100 people in our company who use this solution.
We use this solution widely throughout the company. As I am new to the company, I cannot say whether we will increase or decrease our usage.
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Vanessa-Blazquez
Advanced App Engineering Sr Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Scalability depends on how much you want to embrace the capacity of Appian. If you have a lot of cases, 150,000 for example, the stability will not be good because the memory required is so heavy that the RAM that you need is backed in. If you pass a certain number of cases, and the processes are complex, the situation is not suitable for Appian.
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Abubakar AL Seed
IT Senior General Manager at Abdul Latif Jameel
The scalability and stability of this solution are good.
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David Dommisse
Application Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution can scale.
They've promised they will bring out Kubernetes, which we currently don't have. Right now, it vertically scales. There is no horizontal scaling yet.
So far, we've scaled from 4XL to 8XL without issue. I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.
We have 400 users on the solution right now.
We do plan to increase usage. The solution is mission-critical.
View full review »Appian is scalable.
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reviewer1481952
Practice Head at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Appian is a scalable solution.
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reviewer1529571
Acquisitions Leader at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
It works very well actually across systems. It can work across multiple complex systems, as well. There's no problem when it comes to scaling up and scaling out. Still, the interconnections, in terms of provisions of real-time data, can be a little clunky as the current graphical user interface has some issues.
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Gregg Lipson
Senior Business Analyst at a university with 10,001+ employees
It is easy to scale up the product for a large number of users. We can scale up to 100 users within 20 to 30 minutes. I rate the scalability a nine out of ten. Our customers are enterprise businesses.
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reviewer2108058
Head of Digital Solutions, Head of Appian Department, Digital Transformation Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution is scalable.
View full review »The scalability is a bit limited for the SQL databases because for some of my cognitive services, I'm using no SQL databases in the cloud. Appian doesn't support it. Appian only supports relational databases. There is no database for the unstructured data.
View full review »We have been able to easily scale Appian to meet our needs and haven't hit an upper threshold yet. We've encountered performances issues now and then, but we have always managed to resolve them through code, configuration changes, or additional hardware.
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reviewer1727346
Practice Leader - Digital Process Automation at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Appian is definitely easy to scale, especially if you understand the requirements. It's a good architecture.
Of our customers who use Appian, I would say most of them are medium-sized. Next would be large-sized, and then there are not many small-sized customers. Medium- and large-sized companies mostly go for Appian.
View full review »We believe that the scalability of Appian depends on the expertise of the Appian designers. It completely depends on the skill of the designers — how they design the applications determines the scalability of processes and data. In other words, the platform is very scalable. It stores the data as memory so the data allows us to retrieve the information rapidly; but again, we had already done the data management so the team was focused on data retention and data management. They set up their architecture in such a way that the system and the application can be scaled very quickly, so we are not seeing any problems with the scaling of Appian.
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reviewer1358715
Deputy Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution is very agile. It's very easily expandable too. You're able to integrate different applications or different interfaces with this platform. It's actually quite flexible, I should say.
That said, at this point, we don't plan to increase usage. We're still learning about the product. We hope, in the future, if we take it on, we will be able to expand it.
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reviewer1583955
Senior Technical Consultant at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Appian is very scalable. There's a lot of options for bigger enterprises, like high availability. It's enterprise-grade for smaller to mid-sized businesses.
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reviewer2099520
BPM Developer at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees
The solution is scalable. I'd rate it eight out of ten.
We have about 500 users right now, and we expect to expand usage in the future.
View full review »Appian is scalable. We have a few more ongoing deployments, so the number of users will definitely go up.
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reviewer1744788
Head of Publishing Solutions at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Appian is scalable.
In our company, we have approximately 100 users.
Appian's use may be expanded in the future. It's a bit of a niche on the exam side right now.
View full review »We do not see any issues with overall scalability right now.
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Uriel Zamora
Technical Service Advisor at PPG Industries
This is a scalable solution that can run thousands of processes concurrently and fault tolerant
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Paul Parisi
Enterprise Architect at Mobiliser
This product is targeted to mid size companies and not highly scalable complex processes.
View full review »Scalability is very good, but there are limits imposed by the underlying hardware and the JVM's heap size. Notably, even with a configuration having multiple application servers, the Appian engines installation is always one. However, the capacity of the topologies is very high and will not be an issue for companies with up to 10 applications per installation and up to 4000 active users per day. Appian provides a sizing document and Professional Services to help with decisions on the subject.
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reviewer1475019
Director of national processing at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees
We believe the scalability will be good. It has a good perspective in order to escalate the durations, however, unfortunately, we haven't been able to test the market to measure the potential for expansion.
We are in the testing phase, however, if we do decide to deploy the product, our plan is to scale from 20 to 300 users in the near future.
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reviewer1484889
Manager Software Projects at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I'm more on the development side of things and therefore haven't really been exposed to the scalability aspect of the solution. I don't know if it's possible or not.
View full review »Not much, but again if high usage is not anticipated while gathering the requirements, the tool becomes slow sometimes, which is not good for tier 0 applications.
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reviewer947244
CTO at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is scalable.
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HimanshuTejwani
System Administrator and DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It's highly scalable and highly secure. We can also create distributed environments.
View full review »We haven't encountered any issues because we use small processes. We have not had any problem with the amount of work or data it can handle.
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reviewer1242408
Advisor in Business Transformation Programs at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
It is a scalable solution, and we have about 30 to 40 people using it in our company.
View full review »Considering that organizations like the US Army use it, worldwide, globally, it's able to scale up from supporting an organization of 50 to an organization of thousands. There is no issue with scalability.
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Randy Dillon
Digital Transformation Architect/Consultant at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Scalability problems are usually only experienced when architecture and development are done by people who don't know the tool and its best practices very well.
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reviewer956700
Senior Account Executive/Business Development Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
In terms of scalability and flexibility, it could be a mix of things. It's flexible in the sense that it can be upgraded or scaled initially or in a fast manner. But if it can be done abruptly, maybe due to processing or maybe even involvement internally, that would be some sort of cause for delay. So it's not fully scalable per se, but what is being offered by Appian is quite flexible enough to cater to the needs of our end users or customers.
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Nyamtseren Batdelger
CEO at DigitalWorks
The scalability of Appian is good.
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reviewer1431837
Enterprise Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Appian is scalable.
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Abdulmajeed Al-Suliman
Team leader at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
No issues.
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