Georgia Technology Authority Moving from Vignette to OpenPublic

For Immediate Release: Alexandria, VA, September 14, 2011 – Phase2 Technology, based in Alexandria, VA, was awarded the contract to replace, migrate and support the State of Georgia’s enterprise content management system on OpenPublic a Drupal-based CMS for government. The Georgia Technology Authority administers the system, which manages content for Georgia.gov and 65 state agency websites. the delivery of IT infrastructure services to 85 Executive Branch agencies and managed network services to 1,400 state and local government entities in the state of Georgia.

OpenPublic was developed by Phase2 Technology through their work with federal clients in building open source multi-site platforms.

"The award of this contract signals a significant move at the state level from proprietary software solutions to open source enterprise platforms,” said Jeff Walpole, CEO of Phase2. “We’re very pleased with the award and the opportunity to build on the strength and flexibility of OpenPublic in enterprise security for the state of Georgia.”

"We are excited about the possibilities that Drupal brings to the state of Georgia,” said Calvin Rhodes, Georgia State CIO and GTA Director. “This new platform will give us the flexibility to offer more online services to Georgians while making government more efficient and saving taxpayers money."

Phase2 Technology will be teaming with Acquia and Mediacurrent to provide development and hosting support in the transition from Vignette, the state’s current enterprise content management system.