It is my great honor to announce that Ignyte was named the winner of the inaugural 2020 Federal Partner Cup Hackathon!

Appian’s rich partner ecosystem was tasked to rapidly create applications for the federal market, leveraging Appian’s low-code automation platform that demonstrated an impactful use case, great user experience, and the power of Hyperautomation, integrating AI, RPA, business rules, and case management.

Our Solution:

An Appian-based HIPAA-Compliant Case Management system using low-code integrations with Microsoft Teams, Alexa, Blockchain, and AI/ML to deliver telemedicine, voice assistant, secure sharing of medical records, and data-driven clinical decision support.  

Our Journey:

Our hackathon journey started with the identification of a diverse team of skilled Appian developers augmented by specialists in AI/ML and User Experience. This is how Ignyte prefers to do our work, and is a natural way to leverage the power of low code with Appian. We’ve started to see that the industry is catching on to this concept and calling this a “fusion team”.

We collaboratively identified several strong use cases for the Federal and Public Sector market that balanced the ability to apply the latest features of Appian, a strong market need for a solution, and their standing as a national priority at the moment. We chose to focus on Mental Health Case Management, but considered several other options including:

• An application to coordinate the response of Federal, State, and Local agencies during wild-fires
• A Student-facing portal that centralizes access to federal Student Loan, Grant, Enrollment, and Diversity data

Executing against our solution idea came with many challenges, including balancing several schedules filled with "day-job" client facing work, and the old-fashioned need for strong change and configuration management discipline. To overcome these challenges, we relied heavily on virtual face-to-face meetings, asynchronous communications via Slack team chats, and on the repository of Appian Best Practices and Application Accelerators we had established on our Appian Sandbox.

This was the first time many members of our team have built an application without traditional requirements, so it was a great opportunity for them to wear their consulting hats and prescribe what features and solutions they thought would best achieve the goals of our solution. We also had the chance to experiment with some really exciting technologies for this solution that we believe we can use to drive many other innovations in the future. These include: