Laurent
Dewailly leading French market expansion to meet escalating
demand for low-code software
PARIS, May 31, 2022
/PRNewswire/ -- Appian (NASDAQ: APPN) today announced the
appointment of Laurent Dewailly as
Regional Vice President for France. He will lead the company's expansion
in France in response to the
region's escalating demand for the Appian Low-Code Platform.
According to a recent report by market research firm,
ReportLinker, the Low-Code Development Platform Market was valued
at EUR 7.33 billion (USD 7.61 billion) in 2021 and is expected to
reach EUR 35 billion by 2027 at an
estimated CAGR close to 30% between 2022 and 2027.
Appian appointment Laurent Dewailly as Regional Vice President for
France to lead the company's
expansion in France.
Appian helps organizations accelerate businesses by discovering,
designing, and automating their most important processes. The
Innovation Makers Alliance and ITiForums recently awarded Appian
the Grand Jury's Prize in the Low-Code and No-Code category during
the Digital and Innovation Makers Summit in Paris, France. The Appian Low-Code Platform
combines the key capabilities needed to get work done faster,
Process Mining + Workflow + Automation, in a unified low-code
platform.
As a result, businesses and government agencies can respond more
rapidly to change while optimizing operations and the customer
experience. Appian customers include:
- Nine of the world's top 10 largest life sciences companies,
including a French multinational healthcare company.
- Five of the world's top 10 banks, one of which is a French
international banking group conglomerate, as well as an
international asset management company.
- Leading global energy and utilities companies in
France.
"We are really impressed with Appian. In spite of our internal
CRM constraints and this being our first AGILE methodology
implementation, we delivered the project in eight weeks and met
objectives in terms of time, quality and budget within the initial
project scope," said Marc Phirmis, Project Manager at Département
des Yvelines.
Headquartered in Versailles,
France, Yvelines and its workforce of over 4,000 employees
serve more than 1.4 million citizens living in France's third most populated territory. The
organization has integrated Appian with an existing CRM system to
capture case information, key documents, and electronic signatures
online and from mobile devices. As a result, the digital solution
replaced paper-based processing, optimized caseworker data entry,
and reduced case administration time.
"Southern Europe, which
includes Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal, is one of the most successful and
important regions for Appian with high growth year-on-year. I am
delighted to welcome Laurent
Dewailly to our leadership team to help us further expand in
France," said Silvia Fossati, Area Vice President of
Southern Europe,
Appian. "Appian France was the first office we opened in
Continental Europe back in 2013, and it remains an important and
growing market for us. Our French customers are very loyal to us
and we have a retention rate of 100% this year."
Laurent Dewailly brings more than
20 years of enterprise software experience in sales management and
business development. Before Appian, he spent six years at Lenovo
as a Sales Director and previously was with IBM in various sales
management and technical roles. As a graduate of ESSEC Business
School and Centrale Lille with a Doctorate in Information
Technology, Dewailly has spent his entire career dedicated to the
technology industry.
"The local Appian team is expanding to meet the increasing
adoption of our low-code platform amongst French companies that
understand the importance of rapid application deployment to scale
digitalization on an open, enterprise-grade, and unified platform,"
commented Dewailly. "I am excited to lead the team, work with our
partners to support our growth in France, and help companies realize their
digital automation ambitions."
Download a free Gartner Peer Insights 'Voice of the Customer':
Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms report to learn more
about Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms, how Appian is one
of only four vendors to receive the "Customer Choice" distinction,
and the only vendor to receive the distinction across the four
categories for Large Enterprise ($1-10B), Midsize
Enterprise ($50M-$1B), North
America, and Europe, the
Middle East and Africa.
About Appian
Appian is the unified platform for change. We accelerate
customers' businesses by discovering, designing, and automating
their most important processes. The Appian Low-Code Platform
combines the key capabilities needed to get work done faster,
Process Mining + Workflow + Automation, in a unified low-code
platform. Appian is open, enterprise-grade, and trusted by industry
leaders. For more information, visit appian.com.
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