Unified ERP Program Moves Forward Through the Architect and Configure Phase

The University System of Georgia's (USG) Unified Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Program team continues to make steady progress through the Architect and Configure phase, which will continue through the calendar year.

Progress at a Glance

The formal Functional Design Sessions were completed in early May. These sessions gathered input from institutions across the System on business processes, system configurations, data integrations, reporting needs, change impacts, and potential policies and practices that may necessitate further review.

In addition, the Institutional Design Review (IDR) Sessions recently concluded. During these sessions, Georgia Tech, along with other USG institutions, reviewed initial system-wide design decisions from each of the workstreams in Finance and Human Capital Management (HCM). Potential operational impacts to campuses were shared, in addition to other feedback that would help shape Prototype 1 (P1) - the first of several working test environments - also known as "Tenants" in the new Workday system.

P1 will serve as an initial, baseline configuration in the new Unified ERP system, using copies of institutions' data to assess how data is integrated and flowing within the system. Testing throughout the Architect and Configure phase will be iterative with a design - build - review approach. Two additional prototypes are planned for 2027.