Problem or Identified Need In 1991, Georgia Power's Economic Development group unveiled the world’s first site-selection facility, known as the Georgia Resource Center (GRC), offering prospects a virtual tour of the state. The GRC was the first to deploy technology of this kind for economic development, making analysis of where to locate a business easier and faster for the prospect. The problem was that this technology was only available at this location and not available to all the state’s economic development organizations. In summary, the legacy system: • Was a custom built application that became difficult to maintain and upgrade • The supporting databases became unsupportable • Hardware became obsolete • Software and basemap data expensive to maintain • Data quality not meeting expectations • System only available in center or on desktop In response to these issues, a cross- functional team of members from the organization worked to determine what the new system should offer. The goal of the new application was to give the state of Georgia a competitive advantage in economic development by making information on available sites and buildings, communities, taxes, labor and demographics easily available to prospects, consultants, brokers Georgia Power’s partners. Specifically, the new system was to: Results Georgia Power’s Economic Development group chose Rolta International to help develop it’s new web application. Rolta’s OnPoint web tool provides a full suite of GIS tools including access to GIS and external databases, measuring, redlining, spatial searches, and reporting. The new web application created, called SelectGeorgia, is used by both internal project managers and external prospects and consultants in their site selection process. Communities in the state are able to keep their data up-to-date, and brokers, developers and our other partners use the site to find data on sites and buildings as well as detailed community information including demographics, taxes, incentives, and available workforce. The implementation of SelectGeorgia has enabled Georgia Power to gain operational efficiencies through streamlined processes and costs savings through reduction in maintenance costs. Specifically, it has resulted in a 75 percent reduction in related software maintenance and a 70 percent reduction in C&ED’s maintenance labor. Since its release to the public in 2008, SelectGeorgia has also been used to support projects resulting in more than $5.6 billion in new capital investment and the creation of over 27,500 new jobs.