Raft Announces Strategic Partnership with Appian Corporation (APPN)

Appian Corporation (NASDAQ:APPN) is one of the 7 Best Stocks to Buy According to Abdiel Capital Advisors. On June 10, Raft, which is a leading defense tech company, announced a strategic partnership with Appian Corporation (NASDAQ:APPN), a leader in process orchestration. Together, both companies are delivering a contested logistics Cloud solution to the tactical edge in Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM), which is a hotly contested global theater.

Raft Announces Strategic Partnership with Appian Corporation (APPN)

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The partnership focuses on combining Raft’s real-time, edge-ready, autonomous data fusion with Appian Corporation (NASDAQ:APPN)’s secure, enterprise-grade process orchestration to cater to one of the military’s most urgent operational challenges, i.e., sustaining distributed forces throughout the vast Indo-Pacific. The Raft and Appian Corporation (NASDAQ:APPN) solution integrates fragmented supply chain and operational data into the unified ecosystem, resulting in faster, informed decision-making from the command center to the tactical edge.

In Q1 2025, Appian Corporation (NASDAQ:APPN) continued to demonstrate its earnings potential, with narrowing net losses, the 3rd straight quarter of positive adjusted EBITDA, and $45 million in operating cash flow. Appian Corporation (NASDAQ:APPN) rolled out a multi-tiered pricing model last year, enabling the company to monetize AI and other exclusive features. Since then, nearly half of its new logos have bought the AI-inclusive upper tiers.

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