Summary
Appian Corp, a Vienna,VA-based business process management (BPM) provider, offers software that helps agencies manage their procurements. The product, which is similar to other BPM offerings, features a "dashboard" that tells users where the requests and tasks stand and includes potentially useful information, such as a pie chart identifying funding sources. Intelligence, Defense and Homeland Security agencies use the technology, but vendors say they have been instructed to keep the details secret for security reasons. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is in the initial phases of implementing HandySoft Global Corp's BizFlow software, which Bill Dean, assistant for operations in NRC's office of the executive director for operations, says should help the commission manage its documents and tasks. Privacy issues, he adds, are not a problem because sensitive and classified information would still be handled manually.
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Electronic Management
Business process management, a method of mapping out a work process, tracking who does what, and automating steps is a supersized version of shared disk drives. Not only can managers look over employees' shoulder...
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