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Archivum

About Archivum

Sidney Fernandes, VP/CIO

"With Appian, we are able to blend enterprise innovations such as agile delivery and mobile enablement to make the student experience at USF as easy as possible. Using Appian as an application platform supports our mission to leverage workplace technology to better understand health and how its future can transform our quality of life."

- Sidney Fernandes, VP/CIO

What is Archivum?

Archivum is highly accessible, mobile-friendly, and most of all, it delivers! It is the landing ground for numerous applications and programs, all of which work to support USF’s community better than ever. Administrative tasks have become digitized and streamlined through this new method. Common tasks like requesting an advisory change, or putting in an official travel request are quicker, simpler, and more efficient than ever.

Easy collaboration is an integral benefit of Archivum, as both faculty/staff and students access the system. People, systems, and processes now have a venue to interact with one another without complication.

The digitalization of all of the administrative processes of USF makes efficiency well within reach. Things are instant, and they’re mobile. Archivum can be accessed through any device, and implementation of a digital app makes things just that much more accessible.

Here's a breakdown of some of the great things about Archivum that we know you'll love. Take a look at and decide for yourself:

  • Archivum is highly flexible. If something needs to be changed, added, or removed, no worries! Archivum has your back.
  • Archivum makes it easier to complete the administrative tasks required to support our students - which improves their quality of life and quality of education.
  • Archivum lowers the potential for errors that are associated with manual entry on paper forms. Using the fully-online and mobile Archivum, the University avoids the previously inevitable loss of documents!
  • With real-time monitoring and analytics, processes can be tweaked to better serve the users.
  • With frequent deployments of additions to the platform, Archivum will only continue to get better and better.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Appian is the software company that makes the iBPM (intelligent Business Process Management) product that we are using. Archivum is the name of our Appian instance at USF.

  • Our inspiration for the name “Archivum” originated from one of our very first conversations with Bob Krammer, one of the four co-founders of Appian. Speaking with Krammer, we learned that the company was named after the ancient Roman road: Appian Way. This conversation stuck with us while coming up with a name for our own instance of Appian at USF. We had three ambitious criteria for the name:

    1. Retain the meaning of Appian’s naming origin
    2. Express what the software is and does at its core (records we can take actions upon)
    3. Embody the new and exciting things we are doing and will be doing with this tool within a University setting