PwC and Appian expand alliance to put enterprise AI to work across core business processes

New joint capabilities unveiled at Appian World 2026 apply AI to regulated labeling, legacy code, and enterprise spreadsheets—delivering measurable cost and cycle-time reductions today

PwC and Appian today announced an expansion of their alliance, introducing a set of AI-augmented solutions that help enterprises apply AI to the processes that actually run their business. Unveiled at Appian World 2026, the new capabilities span three of the most persistent sources of operational cost and risk in the enterprise: regulated labeling and product information management, legacy codebases, and business-critical spreadsheets.

Across industries, many AI initiatives struggle to scale, delivering value in isolated pockets rather than translating into how the business runs day to day. While enterprises have invested heavily in AI, much of that investment has stopped short of the processes where cost and risk actually live—the manual regulatory workflows, decades-old code, and fragmented spreadsheets that sit outside IT governance and beyond the reach of modern AI tools. The expanded PwC and Appian alliance is designed to close that gap, combining PwC’s AI tech-enabled solutions with Appian Composer, an AI-augmented development tool on the Appian Platform, to convert locked-away business logic into governed, production-ready applications.

These solutions demonstrate what it looks like when AI is applied directly to the systems and processes that run the enterprise, transforming fragmented logic into governed, production-ready applications, not just maintaining existing systems, but accelerating innovation.

Labeling and product information management

Labeling has quickly become one of the most expensive and operationally complex regulatory functions in the enterprise. Regulators globally, including the FDA and EMA, are increasing expectations around labeling accuracy and lifecycle management, while product recalls and enforcement actions continue to highlight labeling and product information as a growing source of compliance and operational risk for global manufacturers. Based on PwC’s analysis, it is estimated that large global organizations may carry approximately $100 million annually in operational and risk burden tied to labeling and product information management. The PwC and Appian AI-enabled labeling solution helps connect regulatory change, labeling execution, and downstream operational implementation within a single governed workflow, providing a centralized view of global labeling content, identifying impacted products and markets as changes occur, and enabling automated updates with full traceability. Based on PwC’s analysis, it is estimated that organizations can reduce end-to-end cycle times by up to 50% and accelerate change impact assessments from weeks to days.

“As organizations expand how they deliver product information across digital, physical, and customer-facing channels, accuracy and consistency become significantly more complex,” said Brian Riewerts, Principal, PwC Health Industries Risk & Regulatory practice. “A digitally enabled, end-to-end labeling process allows companies to maintain a single, trusted source of truth across markets and channels, enabling faster updates and greater confidence in product information.”

Legacy code modernization

A significant share of Fortune 500 companies still run core operations on mainframe infrastructure, and the legacy modernization market is positioned for strong and sustained growth in the years ahead. PwC’s legacy code modernization tech-enabled solution enables considerable reductions in engineering effort and testing cycles, with savings that compound across the entire modernization lifecycle. This process unlocks the business process value buried in lines of legacy code.

Spreadsheets and end-user computing

Across industries, thousands of business-critical processes—rate filings, financial close, risk and controls documentation, tax workflows, approval chains—run on spreadsheets and other end-user computing (EUC) files that sit outside IT governance and beyond the reach of enterprise AI. PwC’s document extraction capabilities apply multimodal AI reasoning to navigate and interpret large, enterprise-scale workbooks—tracing logic across sheets, surfacing embedded business rules, and producing structured, traceable requirements that feed directly into Appian Composer. Early pilots have compressed the initial application planning phase from 80 hours to 5, moving EUC processes off the desktop and into governed applications that compliance teams can audit and AI agents can safely operate within.

“Appian Composer was built to close the gap between the complexity of what enterprises actually run and the speed at which they need to modernize,” said Scott Van Valkenburgh, Senior Vice President, Global Partners & Channels, Appian. “PwC’s doc extraction capability brings exactly the kind of structured, business-grounded input that enables Composer to do its best work. Together, we’re giving organizations a clear, credible path from the spreadsheets running their business today to the governed, agentic applications they need for tomorrow.”

Ultimately, the advantage isn’t what organizations have. It’s how everything works together. Across all three solution areas, outputs feed into Appian Composer to generate applications with enterprise-grade security, audit trails, and AI integration—bringing critical business logic under governance and making it ready for the agentic workflows enterprises are building today.

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Appian is The Process Company. We deliver a software platform that helps organizations run better processes that reduce costs, improve customer experiences, and gain a strategic edge. Committed to client success, we serve many of the world’s largest companies across various industries. For more information, visit appian.com. [Nasdaq: APPN]