Human Resources: MERCER HR SERVICES SELECTS APPIAN ENTERPRISE BPM SUITE

Vienna, VA., March 26, 2007 - Appian, the leading provider of Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), announced today that Mercer HR Services, the human resource outsourcing business of Mercer Human Resource Consulting, has selected the award-winning Appian Enterprise BPM Suite to manage and streamline system-to-system integration, backend workflow and its human-centric processes worldwide.

"We selected Appian Enterprise after a competitive evaluation of all leading BPM vendors, which was an exhaustive process that lasted several months," said David Colelli, CIO, Mercer HR Services. “Unlike other BPM offerings, Appian’s comprehensive suite increases effective control of permissions at an unprecedented level for greater data protection and compliance. Its overall functionality, ease of use and best practices methodologies best suited our needs as we streamline our global business processes.”

Mercer HR Services employs more than 4,000 professionals in major international service centers across the globe, providing client companies with one of the most flexible and comprehensive HR administration service platforms available. Initially, Mercer is deploying Appian’s BPMS to structure and streamline all of its U.S. system integration and backend workflows.

Appian Enterprise provides organizations with the industry’s most sophisticated platform for rapidly developing and deploying next-generation process applications. The latest evolution of Appian’s BPMS, Appian Enterprise 5, is the industry’s only enterprise-class BPM solution to combine best-of-breed process management with broad collaboration and strong analytics functionality, effectively bringing process to people. Appian’s BPMS also increases flexibility to apply precautions whenever desired for greater operational agility and decreases manual administration of permissions to reduce TCO.

"In today’s global marketplace, businesses are looking for BPM solutions that can improve processes in order to gain competitive advantages," said Matt Calkins, CEO at Appian. "With Appian’s BPMS, Mercer will see a vast improvement in productivity while the organization augments its overall business processes.”

Appian’s BPM offering provides both business and IT users the skills to effectively use, customize, and develop on Appian Enterprise, and to leverage the BPM suite for greater ROI. Over the year, Appian has developed dozens of horizontal and vertically-focused solutions in the areas of sourcing and procurement, compliance, government, finance and human resources.

About Mercer HR Services

Mercer HR Services employs 4,100 professionals in major international service centers located in Melbourne, Australia; Toronto, Canada; Dublin, Ireland; and London, England. In addition, 1,600 professionals work in four major U.S. service centers located in Norwood, Mass.; Dallas and Houston, Tex.; and Deerfield, Ill. Mercer HR Services offers one of the most flexible and comprehensive HR services platforms available and provides complete outsourcing solutions for retirement plan administration and program management, health and benefits administration, absence management, and Business Process Outsourcing for HR services.

Mercer Human Resource Consulting is a global leader for HR and related financial advice and services, with more than 15,000 employees serving clients in over 190 cities and 42 countries and territories worldwide. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., which lists its stock (ticker symbol: MMC) on the New York, Chicago, and London stock exchanges. For more information, visit mercerHR.com.

About Appian

Appian is a leading provider of business process management (BPM) technology that helps organizations design, manage, and optimize their business processes. Appian Enterprise has revolutionized process design with a modeling environment that is simple enough for business users yet powerful enough for IT. Appian is the first BPM vendor to combine collaboration and content management with process to create best practice business processes. Appian's patent-pending Active Optimization Technology, which analyzes the in-flight process data stream, not just stored data, helps companies stay ahead of the competition. For more information, visit www.appian.com.