The document discusses how the Modernizing Government Technology Act (MGT) enables federal agencies to modernize their IT infrastructure through custom-built applications. It highlights successful case studies, including the Defense Acquisition University and the Defense Information Systems Agency, which have leveraged the Appian platform to streamline their acquisition management processes. The advantages of custom applications over traditional commercial off-the-shelf solutions (COTS) are emphasized, along with the potential for significant time and cost savings.

1. Modernize Your Acquisition Platform
Through Digital Transformation

2. The MGT has ushered in a new era of IT
innovation within the federal government
and provides an unprecedented
opportunity to update the government’s
legacy IT infrastructures.
The Modernizing Government Technology Act
(MGT)

3. The answer lies in leveraging a custom
built application to accomplish your
specific organization’s mission goals
and objectives.
How to Modernize Your Organization’s
Acquisition Management Platform

4. Custom applications through the
Appian platform can be created and
deployed at a fraction of the time and
cost of traditional COTS.
Next-Generation Acquisition Management

5. Custom Acquisition Application
Success Stories
Defense Acquisition University Defense Information
Systems Agency

6. The DAU leveraged the Appian
platform to build a Micro-Purchase
Management System. This system
reduces their requisition processing
time, utilizes web forms to eliminate
repetitive data entry, and delivers
reports that can be used to identify
process bottlenecks.
1. Defense Acquisition University

7. Using Appian, DISA created the
cloud-based and mobile-enabled
Integrated Defense Enterprise
Acquisition System (IDEAS) – the
largest and most comprehensive
BPM-based acquisition management
solution in the United States Federal
Government.
2. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)

8. Appian runs a business process
management cloud platform that
helps companies optimize their
operations.
About Appian

9. The benefits are clear – an application
platform is the way to go over a COTS.
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