Appian, Army sign $500M enterprise license pact
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Ross Wilkers
The service branch will have access to both the core Appian platform and a cloud offering under this agreement, which is similar to the one with Palantir.
Appian and the Army have finalized a new 10-year, $500 million enterprise agreement covering licenses and related services to aid the service branch in its software modernization and overall digital transformation agenda.
The Army will have access to both the core Appian platform and Appian Defense Cloud, the company’s offering designed to bring commercial parity into a secured environment. ADC holds a conditional authority-to-operate with the Army and is certified at the Impact Level 5 standard for highly-sensitive, unclassified data.
"This award reflects the Army's strategic IT vision for modernization by consolidating contract actions across the Army into a single enterprise agreement (EA) to promote cost efficiencies, while embracing AI-powered process automation and low-code application development to deliver capabilities through the Army cloud environment," Leonel Garciga, the Army’s chief information officer, said in a release Thursday.
For the Army, its agreement with Appian follows a similar pact the Army struck with Palantir in the summer that consolidated 75 contracts into a single 10-year vehicle with a $10 billion ceiling.
The Army and Palantir set up that agreement to facilitate volume discounts and consolidated purchasing, much like what the General Services Administration is doing with other brand name software companies through its OneGov initiative.
The Army’s Appian Defense Cloud enclave is connected into cARMY 2.0, the branch’s enterprise cloud computing environment.
“By combining enterprise-wide licensing, a secure (software-as-a-service) landing zone in Appian Defense Cloud, and outcome-based delivery services, we're enabling the Army and Department of War to move from pilot projects to mission-ready capabilities at scale, with speed, predictability, and confidence," said Michael Beckley, Appian’s founder and chief technology officer.