About NextGen

About

Georgia’s current Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, PeopleSoft/Teamworks, was implemented in 1998. The TeamWorks applications provide support for more than 100 organizations across the state to manage day-to-day operations including personnel management, payroll, time and attendance, and accounting (accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, etc.). The current system is hosted on-premise with the servers residing in the state’s data center.

 

A team consisting of members from the State Accounting Office (SAO), Department of Administrative Services (DOAS), Office of Planning & Budget (OPB), and Georgia Technology Authority (GTA) have recommended the state plan and execute an effort to replace the aging TeamWorks software with a cloud-based solution that will modernize the way Georgia does business.

 

The objective of the GA NextGen Project is to evaluate modern ERP platforms to determine the feasibility, cost, and timeframe for replacing the state's current PeopleSoft/TeamWorks Human Capital Management (HCM) and Financial system with a modern, scalable ERP system that meets the state's business and technology requirements. 

 

What is the NextGen Project?

NextGen is the Next Generation ERP, a new, cloud-based software solution to replace the PeopleSoft TeamWorks system. It will be tailored to work for the state’s new remote workforce and offer streamlined, paperless processes and procedures. NextGen will offer more modern functionalities like online vendor bill pay, data monitoring that offers real-time analytics, a statewide learning management system and a streamlined contract management platform.

 

Benefits

NextGen will offer easier workflows and processing and standardize procedures. Business requirements have evolved over the past 20 years, and Georgia now requires modern services to meet those needs. NextGen will offer more business solutions and centralize services in one platform so that all users can benefit from streamlined processes and leadership can spend less time finding numbers and more time on strategies and solutions. The new platform will provide configurable workflow for agencies to create unique processes to meet their specialized requirements. The NextGen platform will provide robust reporting and analytics that the users can personalize to meet the needs of their agency.  

 

Vision

To transform state government processes by leveraging secure, flexible, and intuitive technology that promotes transparency, increases efficiency, and enables excellent customer service. 

 

Mission

Continuously optimize user experience and business processes in human capital management, finance and procurement enabled by a unified platform. 

 

Values

Transparency 
We build and maintain trust by ensuring that data will be universally accessible to a variety of stakeholders and easily consumable through simplified reporting and visual dashboards. 

 

Integrity 
We maintain data to ensure that it can be relied upon to make decisions and all legal and regulatory requirement are met.  

 

Security 
We design and configure systems to protect confidentiality, ensure availability, prevent fraud, enable business continuity and maintain security protocols. 

 

Efficiency 
Enabled by technology, we foster user self-sufficiency by continuously improving business processes to maximize productivity and reduce manual input. 

 

Customer-focused 
We provide our external customers and internal system users with an intuitive, user-friendly experience and maintain a customer service feedback loop.  

 

Accountability 
We earn credibility by fulfilling commitments, establishing standardized processes and ensuring a system of checks and balances. 

 

Desired Outcomes

Optimized Workforce 

  • Improve employee and organizational efficiency, maximize use of resources and promote collaboration across the enterprise of state government. 
  • Reduce redundancy of tasks by automating processes to enable employees to increase focus on agency missions. 

Enabled Decision-Making 

  • Ensure data quality, transparency, and integrity by instituting system-enabled checks and balances and standardizing data elements. 
  • Provide availability of data for predictive analytics using dashboards available through system-generated reporting as well as ad-hoc capabilities.  

Modern Stakeholder Experience 

  • Enhance user experience through easy-to-use, intuitive technology, accessible training and adoption of standard business processes. 
  • Ensure stakeholder inclusion in process development and system configuration activities to achieve standardization. 

Efficient Stewardship 

  • Leverage delivered capabilities to increase transparency of spend and ensure accountability of business operations. 

 

Contact

Project Owner:
State Accounting Office | [email protected]

 

Procurement:
Department of Administrative Services | [email protected]