Chapter 5: Understanding the Business Context

In this chapter, you will be introduced to the fictional company of Tarence Limited. It is a well-established firm, selling a wide variety of products to customers all over the world. Tarence Limited will be our background scenario for creating a feature-complete Appian application.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • The people at Tarence Limited
  • Discovering the IT landscape
  • Motivation for the project
  • Why use a low-code approach?

The business challenge that our fictional company wants to solve is the high-process costs for the validation of incoming supplier invoices. There is already a system in place that automates the simple steps of matching bank transfers to invoices. This ...

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