MCLEAN, Va., Feb. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Appian (NASDAQ:
APPN) congratulates the University of South
Florida (USF) for receiving the Gartner 2021 Eye on
Innovation Award for Higher Education in the Process, Insight
and Automation category. The annual award program recognizes higher
education institutions for their innovative use of technology to
drive best-in-class initiatives. USF was recognized for its
excellence in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. By leveraging
technology, USF was able to maintain continuity in its operations
in order to allow students, faculty, and staff to stay on track and
reach their goals.
USF used the Appian Low-Code Platform to deploy new solutions that
aided in efforts to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
"Our success in dealing with the pandemic was made possible by
our pre-COVID technical strategy," said Sidney Fernandes, Vice President and CIO at USF.
"Low-code is central to that strategy because it enables a truly
agile culture where many teams can come together quickly to deliver
value."
Throughout the pandemic, USF Information Technology used the
Appian Low-Code Platform as a component of its technical
architecture to quickly deploy new solutions that aided in efforts
to reduce the spread of COVID-19. The team also created
applications within weeks that provided financial, academic, and
emotional support to students. This included apps for HR hiring
freeze exceptions, pass/fail grading option applications, virtual
advisor interactions, and a CARES Act financial aid application
through which nearly 4,000 applications were approved during the
early months of the pandemic. It also included joint creation of
the Appian CampusPass™ solution which helped the
university create safe on-site conditions for students, faculty,
staff, and contractors.
"The CampusPass solution was instrumental in our ability to
manage health and safety at a large, multi-campus metropolitan
university," said Dr. Donna
Peterson, Dean of the College of Public Health and COVID-19
Task Force Chair at USF. "It created a sense of comfort for our
community that we were able to address this enormous challenge, and
it helped us keep the number of positive cases low compared to
other universities of our size."
Alice Wei, Senior Director for
Digital Innovation and Transformation at USF, has led the
university's Appian program for the last eight years. She said, "We
had more demand than IT could meet, so we knew back then that we
had to find new ways to increase agility and accelerate delivery.
This put us in a position of strength when the pandemic began,
because we had already learned how to quickly deploy applications
at scale and at high quality."
Pavel Zamudio-Ramirez, Chief
Customer Officer at Appian, said, "We believe USF is
highly-deserving of this award, both for the strength of their IT
strategy and execution, and for their staunch commitment to student
success and to the health and safety of their entire
community."
Watch this video to learn more about USF's Appian
program.
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