Appian Acquisition Business Management (ABM)

ABM is a complete end-to-end solution that allows federal purchasing organizations to get more out of limited resources by providing a single web-based system for customers, contractors, and administrators to manage all purchasing and contracting activities. ABM supports all pre-award, award, and post-award activities within the acquisition lifecycle.

Full-Featured Solution to Meet All of Your Needs
ABM offers Appian 6, an open, flexible, award-winning Business Process Management (BPM) Suite as the foundation, along with an acquisition workbench comprising prebuilt process models, business logic, rules, enterprise and IAE integrations, user interfaces, and reports and dashboards supporting a complete federal life-cycle acquisition solution as depicted in the diagram below:

ABM is delivered by configuring the platform through the advanced and open system capabilities of Appian's award-winning BPM Suite (BPMS). This approach offers a solution tailored to the needs of the organization.

Benefit Highlights:

• Achieve results in months vs. years: Incremental implementation approach provides the flexibility to address areas of greatest need first
• Avoid the expense of 'rip-n-replace': Seamlessly work with existing systems and reduce costs
• Gain process transparency: Open information perpetuates accountability and improvement throughout the acquisition process
• React quickly to policy change: Automate enforcement of, and adherence to, ever-changing policy guidance, law and regulation
• Improve process efficiency: Reduce manual effort and increase productivity

ABM is a proven solution for the common pains felt by federal procurement professionals. It provides the right mix of functionality and flexibility needed to quickly reduce cost, drive operational efficiency and increase procurement process transparency.