Case Study: Georgia Tech Research Institute achieves real-time financial and project visibility and streamlined, automated operations with Deltek Enterprise Suite

Deltek software helps educate Georgia Tech Research Institute

Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), the nonprofit applied research arm of Georgia Tech supporting roughly $130M in annual research and 1,200 staff, struggled with a legacy IBM mainframe accounting system from 1989. The COBOL‑based system produced only monthly, often stale reports, required paper timesheets for all employees, created data‑integrity problems and time‑consuming manual corrections, and made timely project and budget oversight difficult.

GTRI implemented the Deltek Enterprise suite (Deltek Costpoint, Enterprise Planner and Deltek Time Collection) and integrated it with PeopleSoft, automating timesheets, billing and accounting processes. The change delivered real‑time financial and project data enterprise‑wide, eliminated about $75K/year in maintenance, automated more than 75% of bills, sped month‑end close to hours, improved accuracy and controls, and made reports and timesheet entry accessible online.

Georgia Tech Research Institute

Charles Brown

Chief Business Officer