Appian to Present at Transformation and Innovation Conference; Company Co-Founder to Discuss How Defense Agencies Leverage Business Process Management as a Strategic Platform.VIENNA, Va. -- Appian, the leading provider of human-centric business process management suites (BPMS (Business Process Management Suite or System) See BPM. ), today announced that Marc Wilson Not to be confused with Mark Wilson or Marc Wilson (footballer). Marc Douglas Wilson (born February 15, 1957 in Seattle, Washington) was an American football quarterback who played in the National Football League for the Oakland and Los Angeles Raiders and New England , co-founder and vice president of professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. of Appian, will be presenting at the Transformation and Innovation Conference in Washington DC on May 24, 2006. Mr. Wilson's address entitled "Defense Transformation Powered by Business Process Management," will highlight defense agencies that are using BPM as a strategic technology platform for integrating existing systems, managing human capital and deploying next-generation, process-centric composite applications In computing, the term composite application expresses a perspective of software engineering that defines an application built by combining multiple services. People often compare composite applications to mashups. . The Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security Noun 1. Department of Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States are ahead of the curve in leveraging emerging BPM technologies as key components of their enterprise architectures and addressing critical requirements for defense transformation. Mr. Wilson, will speak from 10:15-11:15 a.m. Eastern Time at the conference on how these agencies are operating some of the largest BPM deployments to automate and optimize key processes. Mr. Wilson is a co-founder of Appian and is currently responsible for the company's professional services business. In this role, Mr. Wilson oversees all of Appian's implementation and customization efforts on client sites. He has successfully delivered some of the largest and most sophisticated projects in the software industry, including the Army's well-known Army Knowledge Online (AKO Ako (äkō`), city (1990 pop. 51,131), Hyogo prefecture, W Honshu, Japan, on the Harima Sea. Relying on its steel and chemical industries, Ako has become one of Japan's most polluted industrial cities. ) program. As Appian's high-level program manager, Marc worked with executives throughout the Army to develop a strategy for the process of webification and IT consolidation as well as project control and risk management for AKO. The Transformation and Innovation 2006 conference is taking place at the Renaissance Washington DC from May 22-24 and is designed for Chief Architects and CIOS CIOS Communication Institute for Online Scholarship CIOS Channel Island Occupation Society (Channel Islands) CIOS Claim Imaging Operation Services (insurance) CIOS Central Imaging Operation Services , Business Process Owners The process owner is the person who co-ordinates the various functions and work activities at all levels of a process. This person might have the authority or ability to make changes in the process as required, and manages the entire process cycle to ensure performance , Operations Managers, Enterprise Architects, Business Analysts, IT strategists and Business Consultants. For more information, visit www.transformationandinnovation.com. About Appian Appian is the first business process management (BPM) company to deliver advanced process, knowledge, and analytics functionality in a fully integrated suite. Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations are deploying Appian's award-winning software, Appian Enterprise, to drive continuous process improvements and build next-generation, composite process solutions. For more information, visit www.appian.com. |
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