ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Avineon, Inc. ( www.avineon.com), a successful provider of IT, geospatial, engineering, and program management solutions, today announced the company will demonstrate its Avineonics(R) emergency management system at this month's co-sponsored Appian and Business Process Management (BPM) Consortium's "BPM for Government Excellence" seminar in Washington, D.C. During the March 24 event, Akhlesh Kaushiva, Avineon's vice president of commercial IT services, will provide an overview and demonstration of Avineonics, a state-of-the-art system that enables organizations to automate the preparation, organization, management, execution, and documentation of emergency preparedness and incident management functions. The system, based on Incident Command System (ICS) and National Incident Management System (NIMS) guidelines, optimizes industry knowledge and provides advanced technology for both daily and emergency response operations.

Avineonics uses business process management principles to orchestrate collaborative functions for training, roles management, resource management, planning, mobilization, operational periods, check-in, check-out, task assignments, performance ratings, and more. The web-based software produces a common operational picture to manage incidents effectively. Avineonics can be implemented as a stand-alone or an integrated system, complying with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to support data and event-level integration.

The free "BPM for Government Excellence" seminar will also feature case studies and discussions from numerous government-sector BPM practitioners that demonstrate how various government agencies have automated business processes to improve program performance, increase process visibility, and meet regulatory mandates. After the morning presentations, attendees can participate in a complimentary BPM tutorial session focusing on the state of BPM in today's business environment.

For more information on the "BPM for Government Excellence" seminar, including registration information and an agenda, visit www.bpm-consortium.org/BPM_for_Government_Information_Seminar.htm.

About Avineon

Avineon, a CMMI Maturity Level 3 and ISO 9001:2000 registered company, is a diversified high technology company that provides information technology (IT), geospatial, engineering, and program management services. With headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, and offices in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Virginia, Avineon also maintains subsidiaries in Europe, Canada, and India. In IT, Avineon specializes in web-based architecture, systems engineering, application development, and network and security support. For additional information, please visit www.avineon.com.

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