Groundswell Integrated Budget Suite

Streamline, optimize, and transform your budget lifecycle with an Appian-based SaaS built for federal.

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The challenge

Federal budget management is fragmented by design.

Federal budget management often faces disconnected processes, siloed systems, and extensive reporting requirements. Efficiently allocating time and resources is crucial for agencies to focus on their core missions.

Fragmented data

Budget data is scattered across stakeholders and systems that don’t talk to each other.

• Siloed systems
• Weak tie-points

No forward visibility

Agencies can’t see past the current year or model what comes next.

• No out-year forecasting
• Single-scenario planning

Year-end fallout

Without tight control, funds and effort drain away in the year-end scramble.

• Year-end fallout
• Loose fund control

Reporting drag

Standardized, defensible reporting takes manual effort it shouldn’t.

• Disjointed reporting
• Manual reconcilliation

Introducing GIBS

One suite across the full budgeting lifecycle.

GIBS unifies every phase of the federal budget lifecycle, from strategy and formulation to planning, execution, reconciliation, and reporting.

Strategy

Align mission to money.

Connect strategic goals, performance measures, and funding decisions in one platform. Track outcomes over time and ensure resources support mission objectives.
  • Strategic goals and performance management
  • Funding aligned to mission outcomes
  • Annual and multi-year performance tracking
Groundswell GIBS Strategy

Formulation

Build defensible budget requests.

Support programming and budget formulation with integrated control table management, operating plan development, scenario planning, and collaborative budget justification workflows, all driven by authoritative data.
  • Control table and operating plan management
  • Budget scenario creation and analysis
  • Automated budget justification workflows
Groundswell GIBS Formulation

Planning

Plan for every funding scenario.

Support programming and budget planning with requirement and line-item based, multi-year spend plans that prepare agencies for multiple funding scenarios and transition seamlessly into execution.
  • Programming and multi-year spend planning
  • Scenario planning and requirement forecasting
  • Integrated workforce, S&B, and FTE planning
Groundswell GIBS Planning

Execution

Track obligations as they happen.

Monitor budget execution in real time with continuous reconciliation, integrated financial data, and GIBS Guru, an embedded AI assistant that helps users analyze spending, answer policy questions, and generate actionable insights.
  • Real-time obligation and expenditure tracking
  • Continuous reconciliation with AI-powered analysis
  • Natural language reporting, policy guidance, and insights with GIBS Guru
Groundswell GIBS Execution

Reporting

Turn data into decisions.

Turn budget data into actionable insights with purpose-built dashboards, cross-lifecycle reporting, and flexible analytics that connect strategy, formulation, planning, funds management, and execution.
  • End-to-end reporting across the budget lifecycle
  • Interactive dashboards and executive analytics
  • Flexible tagging and ad hoc reporting
Groundswell GIBS Reporting

The BENEFITS

Streamlining Federal
Budgeting and Operations

GIBS is a comprehensive, fit-for-federal budget management suite that supports all phases of the federal budgeting process. Key benefits include phenomenal user experience, better utilization of your funding, and streamlined reporting.

01

User Experience

Dynamic workflows and intelligent UI/UX reconcile and surface relevant data for comprehensive analysis.

02

Return on Investment

Real-time analysis and obligation tracking improve fund utilization while sunsetting redundant systems at your pace.

03

Reporting

Full lifecycle reporting aligns financial resources to strategy, with front-end categorization for ad hoc needs.

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