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Appian Appoints Frédéric Godde to Lead Appian France
Industry veteran aims to unlock productivity gains for French organizations through expanded adoption of the Appian AI Process Platform. PARIS, Sept. 19, 2023
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[{"type":"text","content":"Industry veteran aims to unlock productivity gains for French organizations through expanded adoption of the Appian AI Process Platform.\nPARIS, 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.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nAppian (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.\nFrance 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.\nAs 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 Fre...