Industry veteran aims to unlock productivity
gains for French organizations through expanded adoption of the
Appian AI Process Platform.
PARIS, Sept. 19,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Appian (NASDAQ: APPN) announces
the appointment of Frédéric Godde as Regional Vice President of
Sales for Appian France. With 20 years of B2B technology
experience, Godde has in-depth knowledge of key industries,
including banking, insurance, energy, telecoms, life sciences, and
the public sector. These industries are under tremendous pressure
to increase agility and competitiveness through digital
transformation, but their innovation projects are hampered by
increasing regulatory scrutiny and the need to prove
compliance.
Appian (NASDAQ: APPN) announces the
appointment of Frédéric Godde as Regional Vice President of Sales
for Appian France.
This appointment comes when Appian has just announced its
strategy and roadmap for integrating generative AI into the
Appian AI Process Platform. Appian values democratizing access to
AI technology to unlock productivity gains for developers. The
company's strategy focuses on providing secure and reliable private
AI to protect customer data.
France has embraced AI with an
ambitious AI policy and launched a National Strategy for AI in
2018. More recently, French President Emmanuel Macron announced its commitment to
become Europe's AI hub with €500
million funding in creating AI "champions" of market and research
leaders in the emerging technology, including €40 million
investment to support generative AI projects in France. However, being part of the European
Union, it is under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
and data privacy is imperative. Many companies are looking for ways
to leverage open-source AI yet retain control of customer and
financial data with security and privacy.
As the winner of Grand Prix du Jury DIMS 2023 from the IMA
(Innovation Makers Alliance) for outstanding achievement in
excellence and performance of technological and digital innovation
projects for the business, Appian works with French companies and
organizations to automate business processes for transformative
outcomes. For example, Département des Yvelines, a local government
council, reduced contract creation and validation time by at least
50% with an automated contract generation process. The French
National Rugby League decreased game-day hotline calls by 50% and
legal workload by 24% from an Appian management and compliance app
delivered in less than five months. Other Appian customers
include:
- Nine of the world's top 10 largest life sciences companies,
including Sanofi.
- Five of the world's top 10 banks, including an international
banking conglomerate and a global asset management company in
France.
- Leading global energy and utilities companies in France.
"The digital transformation of large organizations in
France remains an ongoing
challenge to develop their competitive edge, gain operational
efficiency, and leverage the wealth of data that is too often
siloed, ignored or forgotten due to old legacy systems and poor
accessibility," said Frédéric Godde. "French organizations could
unlock productivity gains and accelerate their time-to-market by
leveraging native integrations, embedded AI capabilities, low-code
development and a single, homogeneous interface for their users for
a total experience. With Appian, they have the option to host their
applications in a private cloud with private AI. Our customers and
partners are interested in this option to keep their data secure
and private."
As the Appian leader in France,
Godde will scale the French ecosystem of Appian technology partners
by collaborating with local and global systems integrators (GSIs)
and consulting firms to drive growth and accelerate customer value.
This is in keeping with Appian's global strategy for partner-driven
growth.
"The Appian AI Process Platform provides a low-code design
experience across a complete automation toolset with
enterprise-grade security, reliability, and scalability for
mission-critical applications," added Charlie Thompson, SVP of EMEA at Appian. "As the
third largest economy in Europe,
we strongly believe that Appian can help more companies and
organizations in France unlock
their data with our data fabric, increase their productivity with
AI process automation, and drive innovation and new business
opportunities."
Frédéric Godde holds an executive master's of science in
management from Emlyon Business School and another master's degree
from Université Paris 1
Panthéon-Sorbonne. Godde started his career at Xerox, then moved on
to Verizon Business before holding sales management positions at
Polycom and Fuze, where he was the Regional Vice President of Sales
in France.
About Appian
Appian is a software company that automates business processes.
The Appian AI Process Platform includes everything you need to
design, automate, and optimize even the most complex processes,
from start to finish. The world's most innovative organizations
trust Appian to improve their workflows, unify data, and optimize
operations—resulting in better growth and superior customer
experiences. For more information, visit appian.com. [Nasdaq:
APPN]
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