What steps can you take to alleviate High Execution Time in your Appian instance?

To address High Execution Time in your Appian instance, optimizing queries and applications is a crucial step. High execution time can often be attributed to inefficient queries and poorly designed application logic. By optimizing queries, you can ensure that data retrieval is as efficient as possible. This may include analyzing the database execution plans, using indexing effectively, and avoiding unnecessary data fetching.

Improving application logic involves reviewing the design of process models, interfaces, and rules to streamline their execution. This can mean reducing the complexity of expressions or the number of components interacting with external systems. Optimization leads to faster response times for end-users and a better overall performance of the system.

While adding more servers, implementing caching, and upgrading database hardware can help improve performance and handle more load, these actions do not directly address the root causes of high execution time within existing queries and application designs. They serve more as scalability solutions rather than optimization of current execution performance. Therefore, focusing on optimizing queries and applications is the most effective and direct method to alleviate high execution times.