About APANAPAN provides the DOD and mission partners community spaces and collaborative tools to leverage information to effectively plan, train and respond to meet their business requirements and mission objectives. APAN makes these tools available over the open internet so individuals and organizations who do not have access to traditional DOD systems and networks can participate in information sharing and collaborative events.All Partners Access NetworkAPAN_c42972c6-960f-11e6-b6e7-784a742aff29The All Partners Access Network (APAN) is the premier unclassified information sharing and collaboration enterprise for the United States Department of Defense (DOD). United States Department of DefenseAPAN IT TeamAPAN's Information Technology (IT) Team has more than 15 years of experience supporting multinational exercises, humanitarian assistance and disaster response (HADR) operations, conferences, training and various agencies and organizations information sharing requirements. APAN's IT Team has a proven record of outstanding performance with innovative, responsive and adaptable employees who always place the customer first. The APAN IT Team's combination of field experience and wide technical and academic abilities provide the foundation to meet many customer needs.DOD PartnersMission Partners_c4297424-960f-11e6-b6e7-784a742aff29To share unclassified information and facilitate collaboration_c4297514-960f-11e6-b6e7-784a742aff29HA/DRSupport humanitarian assistance and disaster response (HA/DR) efforts_c42975be-960f-11e6-b6e7-784a742aff291GovernmentsMilitariesInternational OrganizationsNon-Governmental OrganizationsShare information, increase situational awareness and decrease response time for governments, militaries, international and non-governmental organizations participating in humanitarian assistance or disaster response (HA/DR) efforts using APANs collaboration tools and communitiesInformationShare information_c429765e-960f-11e6-b6e7-784a742aff291.1Situational AwarenessIncrease situational awareness_c4297712-960f-11e6-b6e7-784a742aff291.2ResponseDecrease response time_c42977bc-960f-11e6-b6e7-784a742aff291.3ExercisesFacilitate collaboration and information sharing with exercise planners and training audiences from concept development, planning, execution and after action reviews_c4297852-960f-11e6-b6e7-784a742aff292Exercise PlannersTraining AudiencesConceptualizationDevelop exercise concepts_c42978e8-960f-11e6-b6e7-784a742aff292.1PlanningPlan exercises_c4297992-960f-11e6-b6e7-784a742aff292.2ExecutionExecute exercises_c4297a46-960f-11e6-b6e7-784a742aff292.3ReviewsConduct after action reviews_c4297af0-960f-11e6-b6e7-784a742aff292.4ConferencesServe as an information hub for conferences_c4297ba4-960f-11e6-b6e7-784a742aff293Allow your APAN community to serve as a central information hub. Collect registration information, highlight conference agendas, post speaker biographies and broadcast live events through your communityRegistrationCollect registration information_c4297c8a-960f-11e6-b6e7-784a742aff293.1AgendasHighlight conference agendas_c4297d48-960f-11e6-b6e7-784a742aff293.2BiographiesPost speaker biographies_c4297dfc-960f-11e6-b6e7-784a742aff293.3BroadcastsBroadcast live events_c4297ece-960f-11e6-b6e7-784a742aff293.4Work GroupsServe as a virtual workspace where team members are able to work effectively across the globe_c4297f78-960f-11e6-b6e7-784a742aff294DoD Work GroupsTrack tasks, maintain team calendars and events, and share documents from one central location.TasksTrack tasks_c4298036-960f-11e6-b6e7-784a742aff294.1Calendars & EventsMaintain team calendars and events_c42980fe-960f-11e6-b6e7-784a742aff294.2DocumentsShare documents_c4298306-960f-11e6-b6e7-784a742aff294.3CommunitiesEnable interaction and collaboration_c42983b0-960f-11e6-b6e7-784a742aff294.4APAN Communities are online spaces where groups of people or teams can interact and collaborate on specific topics or events. Community owners control all aspects of their community including design, membership, access and tools. APAN provides two types of communities: Groups and Sites. With both types of communities, owners have the ability to incorporate other APAN tools like chat, translation and maps into their community to create their unique collaboration environment.GroupsFacilitate social engagement_c4298478-960f-11e6-b6e7-784a742aff294.4.1Groups -- APAN Groups focus on social engagements. The main applications (blogs, forums, media galleries, wikis and calendars) provide a place for community members to contribute direct comments or feedback. Users can also tag content and people using #tags and @mentions. Pages are made up of a collection of drag-drop-widgets, making it easy for owners with limited experience to customize their community.SitesProvide document management capabilities_c429852c-960f-11e6-b6e7-784a742aff294.4.2APAN Sites focus on content management. Through the use of document management capabilities like managed metadata, version control and check-out control, community owners can design an organizational structure that members can easily find, share and collaborate on content. Owners can encourage consistent business processes and track tasks using workflows and lists. APAN Sites also allows users to view lists and documents from mobile devices.2016-10-19https://www.apan.org/pages/aboutOwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net