To: Faculty and Staff
From: Jere W. Morehead, President
Pamela Whitten, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost
Ryan Nesbit, Vice President for Finance and Administration
RE: Future Financial and Human Resource Administrative Systems
In spring 2014, the University of Georgia made a commitment to evaluate the expectations as well as campus readiness for transforming the existing financial and human resource administrative systems environment to a more advanced technology platform featuring updated, web-enabled services. That evaluation, conducted in partnership with Collegiate Project Services, included extensive focus group sessions with many faculty and staff to identify the needs and requirements of these administrative systems and assess project readiness.
Based on the results of this work, UGA is ready to proceed with a multi-year project to replace legacy finance and human resource administrative systems with version 9.2 of PeopleSoft, the financial and human resource software used across all institutions in the University System of Georgia as well as by other state agencies. The project will be referred to as the OneSource project.
Key goals of the OneSource project include:
- Integration of data across areas so that each department will have the information it requires when needed;
- Streamlined business processes to enable faculty and staff to work and plan more effectively;
- Reporting tools that will improve data access and UGA’s ability to make data-driven decisions;
- Collaboration with the University System of Georgia’s “oneusg” project to provide standardized human resources business practices and IT platforms across institutions;
- Identification and adoption of industry standards and best practices for current and future information technology architecture; and
- Improved data privacy and security.
Planning for the OneSource project is underway and additional details, timelines, and communications will be available in the coming weeks. Please consult the project webpage at onesource.uga.edu for updated information.
We are grateful to the many faculty and staff who participated in the assessment; without their involvement, these steps forward would not have been possible.
