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Appian BPM for Government Excellence Seminar

Hyatt Regency Crystal City at Reagan National Airport
March 24, 2009 | Washington, DC USA

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Abstracts:

Running Government Like a Business
Mark Whiteside, Chief Financial Officer, DAU

Defense Acquisition University (DAU) is the corporate university for acquisition education for the DoD. Utilizing an advanced Business Process Management platform from Appian, DAU has transformed itself, breaking away from the standard government agency model to be run like a business. To optimize funds while maximizing job performance, DAU launched an ambitious program to leverage student, employee and finance data across 50 disconnected sources to drive accountability and positive workforce outcomes. By providing the technology tools required to view, measure and optimize critical processes, DAU has fundamentally changed how it accomplishes its mission, and has dramatically improved operational performance.

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Enabling Mission Success with BPM
LTC Kenneth H. Fritzsche, U.S. Army, Army Knowledge Online (AKO)

Army Knowledge Online (AKO) supports over 2,100,000 users in the Army, across DoD, the Reserves and all their Families. This support provides 24/7 access to information across a wide range of topics, everything from personal data to mission data, including training information, organizational sites, and social networking tools deployed soldiers can use to keep in touch with their loved ones back home. As AKO expands into DKO, the scope of services it provides is also expanding, to include numerous process-based applications. Hear how AKO is being used today and into the future, and the key role Business Process Management is and will be playing as one of AKO's primary services.

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Using Business Process Modeling for Effective Decision-Making
Matthew Faulkner, Office of the Chief Financial Officer, USDA

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has over 200 grant programs which account for over $60B in annual disbursements from 16 agencies within USDA. For the past two years USDA worked to integrate these programs under the Lean Six Sigma Grants Process (LSGP) initiative, into one standardized To-Be Process Model utilizing the Lean Six Sigma process improvement methodology. With the vast scope of data from existing programs and the LSGP To-Be Process model, data management and Department wide decision-making was overwhelming. This presentation will discuss how USDA was able to leverage the MEGA business process modeling tool in order to control data and assist leadership in making well informed decisions as they relate to LSGP and the OMB mandated Grants Management Line of Business (GMLOB).

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Streamlining the HR Recruiting Process
Steve Cooper, former CIO of the DHS and the American Red Cross

In this session Appian will be showcasing a new BPM-based Recruiting and Hiring Management application. Built specifically for the Federal Government, this application has rich functionality for both the Hiring Manager and HR Specialist. It is compliant with the policies and procedures from the Office of Personnel Management, and has standard Government forms. This application is the first of a suite of HR applications that Appian is rolling out on its award-winning BPM platform.

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The Role of BPM in Securing U.S. Borders
G. Michael Rodgers, Executive Architect, WHTI, UNISYS

This presentation will discuss how Appian's BPM technology is being used by Unisys, its solution partners, and members of Customs Boarder Patrol (CBP) to manage and monitor key aspects of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) project. The WHTI project encompasses multiple methods for identifying travelers and assessing potential security threats during entrance to the United States. Appian BPM technology gave WHTI the active project management, process visibility, documentation audit trails, and collaboration capabilities needed to meet the aggressive roll-out schedule for the 63 sites deployed. This success has ensured ongoing port implementations for increased U.S. border security.

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Comprehensive Emergency Management Solution
Akhlesh Kaushiva, Vice President, Avineon

This presentation will discuss how Appian's BPM technology is being used to support emergency management functionality. Avineonics ® is a comprehensive emergency management solution with emergency preparedness and incident management components. It is designed to support various verticals e.g. city and state governments, defense, utilities, educational institutes, health industry etc. It is flexible in its integration with existing customer systems and has unique features to facilitate incident management. It includes dynamic organization charts, real time dashboards, activity logs and readiness and performance indices. Using Appian's BPM technology this solution has addressed the process challenge in the area of emergency management.

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Moving Mitigation Directorate Financial Management into the 21 Century
Timothy K. Marrero, AAP CGFM, DHS/FEMA, Mitigation Directorate

As a performance based organization, Mitigation Directorate must align their costs to mission goals and be able to generate and meet agency metrics. To bring eight statutory programs and five separate funding streams into a seamless financial management system is a challenge. Performance budgeting, execution and financial management reporting and performance reporting is a requirement for any Federal organization, but must not become the primary mission. An Appian Business Process Management (BPM) solution will allow for all to be accomplished in a cost effective and timely manner, without the tether of a contractor required for every development and/or change to a process. Custom dashboards for leaders and staff allow for a constant monitoring of the mission accomplishment. During the development of the BPM processes, enterprise architecture, internal control, and business process reengineering documentation are developed to allow for a single source solution to multiple issues that each Federal Agency faces in today's challenging operational environment.

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Go from BPM Beginner to BPM Brainiac in Less Than 2 Hours
Malcolm Ross, Director of Product Management, Appian Corporation

This session, adapted from BPM Basics' most popular webinar series, "BPM Academy," is designed to bring you up-to-speed on all things BPM.

Learn what BPM is, what it consists of, and how it's being used. This BPM primer offers an introductory look at business process management - from process and content management to collaboration and analytics - with real-world examples of how BPM is being used to solve business problems.

Malcolm is an active blogger, author and speaker on various BPM topics and brings his extensive experience to this class, providing an engaging and educational experience for all attendees.

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