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Appian at Veolia: Employee Requests
Veolia, a utilities organization in France, uses Appian AI from Appian to support shared services for HR, facilities, and finance ops.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Handoffs in shared services sit in a shared queue instead of a mailbox trail |
| Risk and compliance | Appian AI is the governed place HR, facilities, and finance ops use for shared services |
| Capability | New joiners can see how shared services actually runs |
Story
Veolia grew employee requests faster than the local tools around it. From France, utilities teams still had to serve customers and internal partners who expected a straight answer. HR, facilities, and finance ops were the ones stitching the picture together by hand.
Rolling out Appian AI put shared services on Appian. Appian is a process automation platform that combines low-code apps, data fabric, and robotic automation for operations teams. Veolia keeps the product in the path where work already happens, so HR, facilities, and finance ops do not context-switch into a graveyard system used only for audits.
The visible result is steadier shared services. Employee requests is easier to inspect, and adjacent groups can join HR, facilities, and finance ops without a guided tour of someone's desktop.