WASHINGTON, DC, March 23, 2009 – Matthew Faulkner, director of the Credit, Travel, and Grants Policy Division in the Office of the Chief Financial Officer in the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), will be a featured speaker at the Appian BPM for Government Excellence Seminar on March 24 in Washington, DC. He will discuss “Using Business Process Modeling for Effective Decision Making” and how his group uses the MEGA Modeling Suite for business process analysis and improvement.
The USDA, the nation’s leading federal agency on food, agriculture, and natural resources issues, has over 200 grant programs which account for over $60B in annual disbursements from 16 agencies within USDA. For the past two years, the USDA has 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. Faulkner’s presentation will discuss how the USDA was able to leverage the MEGA Modeling Suite in order to relate and analyze process and systems information, and assist agency leaders in making well-informed decisions as they relate to LSGP and the OMB mandated Grants Management Line of Business (GMLOB).
Numerous federal agencies use the MEGA Modeling Suite, including four within the USDA: the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES), Farm Services Agency (FSA), Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS), and the Risk Management Agency (RMA).
MEGA is the industry’s foremost expert on business process analysis and enterprise architecture. The company was named as a leader in the January 2009 report, The Forrester Wave™: Business Process Analysis, Enterprise Architecture (EA) Tools, and IT Planning, Q1 2009.
MEGA and Appian are currently working to integrate the MEGA Modeling Suite and Appian Enterprise Business Process Management (BPM) Suite and the Software-as-a-Service (Saas)-delivered Appian Anywhere platforms.
