About GTA
The Georgia Technology Authority seeks to ensure that the state’s IT infrastructure is stable, secure and well-governed, and provides Georgians with the services they need and expect.
More specifically, GTA:
- Manages the state’s IT infrastructure — data center, network and telecommunications services and security
- Establishes policies, standards and guidelines for state IT
- Promotes an enterprise approach to state IT
- Develops and manages the state portal, georgia.gov
GTA's statutory responsibilities also encompass:
- Technology enterprise management — methods for managing technology resources for state agencies; resources include data centers, servers, mainframes, PCs and laptops, wide and local area networks, telecommunications and technology personnel
- Technology portfolio management — approaches for analyzing and ranking the state’s technology investments
Looking to the future
In late 2007, Governor Sonny Perdue directed GTA to proceed with a plan to transform state government’s IT operations. Called GAIT 2010 (Georgia Infrastructure Transformation), the plan calls for consolidating IT infrastructure and moving both infrastructure and telecommunications delivery to external service providers.
GTA has restructured to enable the organization to work as effectively as possible. A corporate layer is responsible for government and agency relationships and reporting. It includes:
- Budgeting and Finance
- Enterprise Governance and Planning - Responsible for supporting agencies in doing a better job of governing their IT initiatives, and gathering IT metrics from agencies and reporting them to state leaders. It includes the offices of Enterprise Information Security; Enterprise Policy, Standards and Architecture; Enterprise Strategic Planning; and Enterprise Program and Project Management.
Our Service Management Organization ensures the quality of the products and services GTA buys from external service providers.
GTA’s vision, purpose and values
GTA's vision, purpose and values clearly reflect the direction the organization is taking and the work being done.
Vision
- To provide exemplary customer service
- To enable business solutions for
- To lead change for
Purpose
- Improve agency service delivery through the effective and efficient use of technology
- Improve the maturity level of
- Reduce risk to
- Improve Georgians’ access to government services through the use of technology
Values
- Communicate candidly
- Commit to the customer
- Treat all members of Team
- Do the right thing
Results oriented
GTA delivers value through managing the delivery of IT services. The organization is committed to improving:
- The maturity of the state’s IT enterprise
- Agency service delivery
- Georgians’ access to government services